Workarounds for recent Comcast DNS problems |
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?




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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…
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