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Some websites inaccessible

Just this morning I cannot access certain websites. Costco.com, huffingtonpost.com, even uverse.att.com. Am also seeing reports of this by several people in my neighborhood - 78704 zip code. Many other sites are working fine. Anyone else having this problem?
bfreese
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Yep, seeing this also in 60083.
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Same issue in 78681 as well
benk016
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Same issues here in Oklahoma 74055

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Same here on the west coast. Seems like a bigger problem with AT&T.
This site works, CNN.com works, but local news sites such as KCAL9.com and bigger sites like Adobe.com do not.

EDIT: I seem to be able to work around it by changing the DNS servers manually on this machine to 8.8.8.8 (Google's DNS server). So it may be related to AT&T's DNS servers.

As a test I went to costco.com (site mentioned in this thread) before I changed it, which did not work. After I changed the DNS servers, the site came up.

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Change your DNS settings to anything other than AT&T's if you need access. Seems like their's are down or slow.
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Thank you!

So it's not only me.

I've been uninstalling my network card in device manager.

Turning anti-viruses off.

Etc. Etc.

The following sites don't open for me at all:

click2houston.com
nfl.com
imdb.com

Facebook opens with just text in a column on the left side of the screen, no images and the rest of the screen white out.

Adobe opens with just text too -

»www.macromedia.com/suppo ··· l#117717

Adobe Flash page won't even open (I thought maybe my Flash needed updating).

I tried doing all of the above using both Chrome and Firefox and both browser are the latest version.

Trying to do a Windows Update check and I get an code 80072ee2 error, I think that maybe related too.

How do I change the DNS settings in my »192.168.1.254/ modem page?

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It's AT&T's DNS servers. So I changed them on 2 of my devices and they work now. I'm not going to change my other 8 devices for now. I may get a different router so I can use my own DNS servers instead of being forced to use AT&T ones. Hopefully they will sort it out soon, if their DNS servers are baked, could be that TV is affected too. I don't have U-Verse TV.

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Same here in Olathe KS, 66061 - unable to access certain websites, such as att.com

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How do I change the DNS settings in my ยป192.168.1.254/ modem page?

You can't. You need to change them in your individual devices network settings
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Same here in 35242

Edit: turned out to be a different issue.

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I cannot get to Ackamai -serviced things including www.akamai.com

A traceroute only gets to my ATT gateway -- the first hop past my home gateway.

Changing the DNS server seems to have solved it.

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said by maartena:

It's AT&T's DNS servers. So I changed them on 2 of my devices and they work now. I'm not going to change my other 8 devices for now. I may get a different router so I can use my own DNS servers instead of being forced to use AT&T ones. Hopefully they will sort it out soon, if their DNS servers are baked, could be that TV is affected too. I don't have U-Verse TV.

I was about to suggest that! Primary 8.8.8.8 and secondary 8.8.4.4 (Google). Maybe do a tracert to a problem site to see where it breaks.

By the way... I'm on ATT's DNS servers right now, and can get to all the sites listed in the thread. I am also on the other coast though.

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No problems down here in the old BellSouth region - 70433.

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On AT&T U-verse -- experiencing the same here in Indiana (at least where I am in Hendricks County -- which is west of Indianapolis). Same specific issue reported with Facebook, local news pages opening very slowly or not at all.....

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Same here in Ohio (43016). Sites like The Verge do not load. I was getting pissed! Get it together att. Never had any trouble in the 5+ years I've used time warner.

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What is weird is that the URLs got IP addresses.

>tracert www.akamai.com
 
Tracing route to user-att-108-231-0-0.a152.dscb.akamai.net {23.72.82.80}
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  n2 {192.168.1.254}
  2    24 ms    25 ms    28 ms  gate7a {108.231.0.3}
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 
and that continued.

Yet now the same tracert works. Could it have been a non-DNS change that occurred?

Here is a more current trace:
>tracert www.akamai.com
 
Tracing route to a152.dscb.akamai.net {65.172.31.18}
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  n2 {192.168.1.254}
  2    25 ms    24 ms    24 ms  gate7a {108.231.0.3}
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4    28 ms    27 ms    27 ms  12.83.43.33
  5    26 ms    27 ms    27 ms  gar2.clboh.ip.att.net {12.122.132.197}
  6    25 ms    24 ms    24 ms  ^C
 
 

I stopped that one , but it was working.

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Same situation in Madison 53719. Cannot ping www.reuters.com (for example) . . .Request Time Out.
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I'm in Arkansas, cannot get to CNBC.com, Comcast.com (make your own jokes!) or a number of lesser-known sites. 72201

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changed from Uverse DSL to OpenDNS , same issues, big time internet outage, 06870

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Many problem websites in 90034

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I think things are starting to stabilize now. I have been able to get to Amazon.com whereas an hour ago I wasn't able to.
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Still can't get to Facebook and several other websites including local news

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Same issue here in 48198. I am not using ATT DNS. I am using OpenDNS. Sites I can't get to
(so far):

cnn.com
homedepot.com
clickondetroit.com
myfoxdetroit.com
mlive.com

trparky
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That seems to indicate that some routing tables are mangled, either that or some issues with backbone connections.

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Seems OK here in McHenry Il. 60050. Used the google DNS for a hour or so. Went back to dynamic DNS and surfing and page loading seems fine.
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Looks like we're back to normal here in OK.

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Never saw an issue here in SC.
Been online all morning ... never skipped a beat.

Was this just in the north and west?

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Had problems in San Diego earlier. Seems to ok now.

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AT&T U-Verse is up now for me in 60540