Anyone else having Comcast DNS Problems again this week?

Self ^ | 11/11/2017 | USConservative

[usconservative]

Third time in this week Comcast's DNS is messing up big time. First they blamed Century One earlier this week then their connectivity to CL's backbone was experiencing issues, now Comcrap is blaming "local service outages."

Getting really sick of Comcrap, unfortunately they're the only option in my area.

Anyone else on Comcrap having issues? Where are you? Is this another nationwide event that they're trying to squelch?

Chicago area here. (Spare me the Chicago jokes, I've either heard 'em all, repeated 'em all, or made my fair share up about Chicago and living near the murder capital of these United States.)

[usconservative]

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[Andy'smom]

I had some issues a couple of days ago. It was slow but it seems to be ok, now.

[mountainlion]

I have centurylink. I share your grief.

[ptsal]

Yes, slow.
....Never worry Comcast has a service technician working on resolving the problem....

I always like the phone tree at Comcast. If you are experiencing service problems, please send an email. Well, golly gee whiz.... That’s why I am calling is because the internet is screwed up.

[AppyPappy]

Nope. I’m killing Eastern Europeans in Battlefield 4 with no problems whatsoever.

[gunnyg]

THEY all got our #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[stylin19a]

Great user name considering you’re north of I-80.

[Souled_Out]

Yes, I have seen this for the last week or so, fixed by changing DNS to Google, that died, now back on com cast.

[usconservative]

Nope. I’m killing Eastern Europeans in Battlefield 4 with no problems whatsoever.

You bastard! That was me you just fragged.... LOL

[gunnyg]

Not just the corpRayShuns...the edu’s gubmints all levels, down to incl HOAs,etc,etc...............@ Planet WTF!

Nobody seems to catch on...??????
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[usconservative]

I've had this nic since joining Free Republic in 1998.

I rub my Conservatism in these liberal bastards noses.

I'm only about 3 miles North of I-80......

[SERKIT]

Yes, Chicago suburbs, affected business and public safety accounts.

[gunnyg]

98!

I was here in 98....still cannot determine me old handle...thought it mus be DickG...but?????

Musta’ been b4 they started keeping tabs on us er sumpthin!

[Grampa Dave]

We cut our Comcast cable in June and went to Comcast Business for their internet to stream what we want to watch.

Comcast Business internet is a lot more reliable.

In our area, when college kids are home, using the internet to text, game and what ever, regular Comcast internet is about as reliable as CNN is re real news.

The only time we have problems with Comcast business internet seems to be when someone takes out a PG&E pole which also holds the Comcast internet lines.

Or about two months now our area has been invaded with countless AT&T trucks and hordes of linemen installing some new semi secret internet line. Sometimes, they “accidentally” took out Comcast and Comcast Business internet lines for a few hours.

That has slowed down as a few ladies living up and down the streets, go out and take videos of what is happening with the AT&T trucks and hordes of linemen and send the videos to Amazon Prime, Google pics or Drop box.

[stylin19a]

some of the Southern Illinois residents I’ve met considers us north of I-80 as being in Chicagostan or The State of Chicago - too funny.
I’m on Comcast and I’m ok.

[usconservative]

Don't see too many class of 98'ers around here anymore. Think we're a dying breed.

Don't think I recognize either of your nic's there gunnyg, sorry about that and nice to meet you at the same time!

[taxcontrol]

Comcast, actually any ISP, should always provide two DNS servers from two different IP networks. When the ISP’s primary DNS is unreachable, the secondary address should be consulted and respond.

However, occasionally, the problem is with the DNS configuration and impacts both servers. One possible longer term fix is to set your router to use the primary of one ISP and for the secondary, use the Primary of another ISP or DNS service.

Google provides a public DNS service at 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.8.4 you might want to configure your router’s secondary DNS to one of these addresses.

[usconservative]

Yeah, and I joke back with them that I get a little nervous being south of I-80 because it gets too "redneck-ish" for me.

Hearing that ominous banjo music doesn't help much ....

[Bob Celeste]

How long, oh how long shall the sabotage of their infrastructure continue?

[usconservative]

That's a good suggestion and I've done that in the past. Most of the recent problems that appear to be DNS issues aren't really DNS issues at all. They may come back in the browser as a DNS issue but they're really connectivityissues at the physical or logical layer from what I've seen.

The other day we had the natural gas company (NICOR) digging in the neighborhood which was followed up by a visit from some AT&T trucks. Maybe this really is a "local" issue.....