For what it’s worth..
I see comments about Frontier taking on previous Verizon customers and having issues. I also see reports of a massive Comcast outage, especially around the San Francisco area.
I have Frontier DSL service but I have been using Open DNS as a DNS server since at least 2010. When I first got OpenDNS they had FreeRepublic blocked as a hate site. I complained and FR was unblocked. On those lines, could Frontier be doing the same to their former Verizon customers?
Now for another observation. As I said, I am now using OpenDNS. When I try to access FR through my gateway machine (with lookup going to OpenDNS) I get ‘not found’. From any of the machines on my in house network, I can access FR. This seems to be because my in-house gateway software has the lookup cached and thus anything coming from the network can go through. Any lookup originated on the gateway machine on the other hand calls OpenDNS, and they insist you are non-existant. OpenDNS is not showing any outages on their network other than in South Africa.
I note another FReeper said he uses OpenDNS and implied he was having no issues, so it could be a backbone issue because he’s in FL and I’m in NY so the requests would follow a different route.
Another item..
Checking FR on three of the ‘Is It Up’ sites gets:
http://is-it-down.com says FR is up
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com says FR is up
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com says FR is down
Cycling back through those three produced different results. Whatever is going on is sporadic..