| [Connectivity] Outage right now? Sunday night Lost mine around 8:15est. Tried calling Comcast and am getting a busy signal. |
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| Looks like their DNS servers left a big, steamy load in their pants.
Back up now, BTW... |
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| reply to patryan9
What a PITA.
Tried calling their tech support, only to be knocked off with a busy signal.
Then I had to use my Android phone to troubleshoot the thing, and that's when I came to realize that (a.) Their DNS servers were dead. (b.) Google provides free DNS servers, which I quickly switched my router to. |
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| reply to CSD8086
no. its not up everywhere |
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| reply to CSD8086
hopefully soon... |
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| reply to patryan9
yes... went to the iphone and saw the suggestion to change my dns servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4. That got me going. |
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 crazediamondMaybe you shouldn't be so proud?Premium
join:2002-01-19
Atlanta, GA | reply to patryan9
So if I can't find a spot I n my router to change dns what do I do? Writing this on my phone huzzah computer is Windows 7 |
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 ctgreybeardOld dogs can learn new tricksPremium
join:2001-11-13
Bethel, CT | reply to patryan9
said by patryan9:yes... went to the iphone and saw the suggestion to change my dns servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4. That got me going.
That second one should be 8.8.4.4 ... FWIW
Bill W
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Old dogs can learn new tricks! |
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| 75.75.75.75 & 75.75.76.76 are not working here.
Best temporary solution is to use non Comcast DNS like Open DNS
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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- Bill |
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| reply to patryan9
Still down here in Old Saybrook too.
Made the DNS change suggested and am back up.
Thanks |
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Same here. I remembered that I had net access on my phone and used that to find a ton of twitter feeds updated on a google search.
Promptly set my router to use Google's DNS. I wonder how hard hit they were with half the Eastern Seaboard using their DNS as a main DNS service.
Funny how the Comcast DNS Server listing showed them all green when this issue started. |
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| If your router supports 3 dns lines, figure out which two dns comcasts gives you and write those down. Then add those to the first two lines and another source like google or opendns on the third. This will automatically cause your router to use the 3rd dns whenever the first two are not working. Only thing you'll notice is when everything seems snappier because you're the only person on your node who can use the net.  |
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