type in your query to search makeyougohmm
Things that ... make you go hmmtechnology music video art news reviews and muse on the web

April 14, 2005

Workarounds for recent Comcast DNS problems

default — by TDavid @ 9:29 am PST

Last night our Comcast cable connection was spotty at best — again. Wendland nails it:

Once agan, Comcast’s DNS name servers are barely working, slowing access to a crawl. It’s the seond night in a row and the third time in a week the service has experienced unspecified “server problems.” The company is very tightlipped about exactly what’s wrong, how extensive it is and when it will be back to normal - reminiscent of the public relations fiasco of a couple years ago when it minimized widespread outages and customer complaints by pretending that all its problems were being blown out of proportion.

It was so bad that our teenage son was threatening to call Comcast and complain. Personally, I enjoyed taking the night off from the internet and went to sleep early.

Anyway, there are Comcast DNS workarounds here. Might want to print that page out or save it to a local file just in case Comcast internet connectivity goes down again tonight.

Did this post make you go hmm?

F = please no more posts like thisD = not among your best stuffC = average postB = good post, I liked itA = great post, please create more like this (Hmm, no ratings yet)

Loading ... Loading ...

RSS Feed comments for this post 2 Comments »

  1. Comcast DNS Outages More Severe than Previously Thought

    Now, I never even heard about this Comcast outage until this morning. [here]

    One reason that I likely didn’t notice it is that I run my own caching name servers on my home network. I do this because I have never trusted any provider’s overworked n…

    Trackback by The Newest Industry — April 14, 2005 @ 9:58 am PST

  2. […] te. TDavid has a good link in his blog about where to go to bypass this particular issue: Make You Go Hmm: ยป Workarounds for recent Comcast DNS problems Wish I’d have known about that […]

    Pingback by Blog-A-Rama » Blog Archive » Comcast DNS problems? what’s new? — April 14, 2005 @ 10:53 am PST


TrackBack URI: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050414/1712/trackback/

Leave a comment


By leaving a comment you consent to the Official Hmm Comment Policy

Return Home

Copyright 2003-2008 KMR Enterprises All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy