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Comcast DNS outage: IL, IN, MI, MN
- blahedo 16y agoIf you or someone you know is affected, the tl;dr is: add to your DNS servers the entries 208.67.222.222 and/or 208.67.220.220, which hook you in to OpenDNS. Actual IP-based traffic seems to be doing ok.
- Benjo 16y agoGoogle's servers are on 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 if you prefer them to OpenDNS.
- gphil 16y agoI'm a little scared giving Google all of that personal data, but I suppose I'd rather they have it than Comcast. Also, a quick look at their privacy policy for that service shows it being relatively respectful of my privacy, at least for now: We don't correlate or combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network. I did this a few months ago and my service has been a lot more reliable. (I'm in Philadelphia.)
- pyre 16y agoThere's always the Level-3 DNS servers... 4.2.2.[1-6]
- aaronbrethorst 16y agoI walked my mom, who lives in MN, through the process of switching her iMac over to Google's DNS servers: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html#setup http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html#setu... Worked like a charm.
- falsestprophet 16y agoComcast suffered a DNS outage beginning last Sunday evening on the East coast between New Hampshire and Virginia. Is the periodicity a coincidence? http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/11/30/comcast_outage_leaves_internet_customers_adrift/ http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/11/3... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373542,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373542,00.asp
- Pyrodogg 16y agofacepalm Talking to the gf tonight in Minneapolis who was having internet problems. Totally spaced walking her through trying this.