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Re: DNS weirdness
07-07-2009 9:37 PM
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jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: DNS weirdness
07-07-2009 9:39 PM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: DNS weirdness
07-07-2009 9:52 PM
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Why don't Plusnet do something about it?
Re: DNS weirdness
07-07-2009 10:03 PM
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Quote from: adiewoo which is ok if you run windows and want to install something on each PC, but not much use for my PS3 / linux / mac kit...
Is there one windows PC which is usually on? If so put TreeWalk on that and point the PS3 / linux / mac to that PC as their primary DNS server, leave Plusnet/OpenDNS as alternative DNS servers for when the Windows PC is not on.
jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: DNS weirdness
07-07-2009 10:14 PM
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Nothing mentioned on the Service Status page either, beginning to loose faith in the level of accuracy of the information on that page. Is it only the information they want us to see getting posted on there?
(cynically) James
Re: DNS weirdness
07-07-2009 10:28 PM
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and I see no Service Status???
Could have saved myself some time and effort wondering why the lights all appear to be on yet no-one at home.
Could someone PLEASE put up a Service Status?
Re: DNS weirdness
07-07-2009 10:52 PM
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Come on plus - even a message on the status page saying there are reports of problems would help others who are getting it.
Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 5:05 AM
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router manual set to use .49 .50 dns servers
and nslookup
gives this
Default Server: pth-cdns01.plus.net
Address: 212.159.13.49
Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 8:36 AM
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Any way, in all my playing around with rebooting my modem/router, flushing my DNS caches etc etc i didn't find anywhere that I could actually manually tell the modem/router to use different DNS settings. The web interface (it's a BT Voyager 2100) was telling me that it's using 212.159.6.10 and 212.159.6.9, but I can't see how to change these. Sorry if this is a bit if a beginneer's question, but can anyone tell me where in that router's configuration screens I can manually enter different DNS server addresses? It sounds as though other people are doing much better either with .49 and .50 or using OpenDNS servers. Thanks very much in advance for any advice and help.
Best wishes,
Adrian
Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 8:40 AM
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Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 8:45 AM
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Bob posted here yesterday asking for you to do a few things when you were experiencing difficulties.
I understand that a number of you are seeing problems, but we need to be able to investigate it with your help from following the steps identified in Bob's post.
Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 8:49 AM
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This morning at 7am I was getting timeouts to numerous sites (except plusnet site). My router stats showed everything was happy with the connection. Prior to this morning a couple of refreshes would get it going again and a router reboot to get on a different gateway helped for a couple of hours. I didn't have time to play about with it this morning before having to come to work. I know I could manually enter DNS settings in my router / computer and I will do if plusnet say it might be a while before they sort it out but I would prefer to leave all the settings at their defaults if possible.
Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 8:49 AM
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jelv (a.k.a Spoon Whittler) Why I have left Plusnet (warning: long post!) Broadband: Andrews & Arnold Home::1 (FTTC 80/20) Line rental: Pulse 8 Home Line Rental (£14.40/month) Mobile: iD mobile (£4/month) |
Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 8:55 AM
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About your earlier reply to my question - thank you for that. The problem I have with that is that I use my PC (a laptop) in three different locations using three different connectivity providers (plusnet at home, 3 mobile while out and about, and my university network while at work). To my knowledge each system sets my laptop to use different DNS servers. Will it matter if I hard-code servers of my own choice? Again, sorry for what may be a beginner's question, but thank you for your indulgence!
ATB,
Adrian
Re: DNS weirdness
08-07-2009 9:03 AM
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My suspicions are that this is a communication/routing problem that's only affected one site. If this is the case then rebooting your kit should clear the problem once you connect to a gateway that routes your DNS requests to another location.
We do have an internal problem open to investigate this (ref: 57301) however it would help tremendously if you could help provide some of the diagnostic output I asked for in yesterdays post.
Bob Pullen
Plusnet Product Team
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