Wellington ADSL problem

All day today (Sunday) i've been having trouble accessing some sites. http://slashdot.org , http://sourceforge.net, and http://thinkgeek.com are the ones i've noticed.

I can access slashdot by IP address but not the URL, so I figure the problem is with the DNS servers. A guy in Auckland said he can get those sites. Has anyone else had a problem?

i havent had any prob today, did he give u a knew DNS to try?
try 202.27.184.3 or 202.27.184.5 as ur DND servers and see if either of those will work

Its a good idea to have non xtra dns's in there as well.

I didn't see any point calling them, I just emailed. Everything seems fine now. I'lll throw those dns servers in my router for next time, thanks btw whose dns servers are they?

xtra's

Xtra sent me a very helpful reply.



They went on to tell me to clear my browser cache, and gave me instuctions how to do that in IE. I don't think the person who replied knows what DNS was, and is clearly incompetent.

Theyre not going to pay someone with half a brain to go chasing something that they dont think is thier problem.. theres always issues around the internet and its not worth chasing it up.

I have paradise and xtras dns servers just as a precaution as we have had issues in the past with the xtra dns servers at work.

Do you know the paradise dns server addresses? I might add them to my router.

203.96.152.4 and 203.96.152.12... i think

yep perverts right...

so whats new

I have seeen this exact same problem on another forum board.

Im on cable, using paradise dns servers, works fine for me.

That wasn't me on http://KiwiRant.com or http://aardvarkforums.co.nz was it?

there arent any issues with xtra dns at the moment.....

Nope, I tried it this morning and it worked fine, it was yesterday that I had the problem.

Carl...

Call Business Support next time that happens... we can find out why

Who's Carl?

errm... wtf ?

commando... sorry reading 2 screens at once

Next time it buggers up (and something goes wrong most weeks) i'll give that a go, ta

I work for them so we should be able to find out/explain why it's happening

I couldn't get to slashdot yesterday either. Bloody annoying.

yeah /. went bung for a few hours last week too.....

I suspect /. stays up 99.9% of the time, and it's just our access to it that falls over.

Is the underpant gnomes!

As I suspected. The problem lay with the NS servers for vasoftware.com.

There was intermittant issues with their name servers yesterday. They host the three above sites on your list above. I did some research and found their website for their DNS admin contacted him and he confirmed my issues

So the reason it could be accessable on one DNS server and not on another, is probably just an issue of DNS caching. One DNS server could have a longer cache time than when the server went down.

You need to know about DNS (or have a good understanding to understand why it happened)

Thanks for checking that out afterburner, i'm glad it wasn't just my imagination! I knew enough to figure it was DNS, but not enough to work out anything else. I'll try the paradise dns servers next time I have a problem