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About 10 minutes ago I lost connection to the main news areas of BBC and the google.com site, this was just after messenger started to give me errors too - most other sites work, but are slow - anyone else. I'm in Cambridge

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Same here in Coventry this quite usual now with NTL where you only get half the web and pages that take nearly a minute to download sometimes. ADSL here we come. ;)

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heyas,

Yep, I have the same problem, both google and bbc dont work, I'm in colchester.

-A8

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Yahoo and Google did not work.

Glasgow here.

Oh noes. Deja vu all over again. *faints*

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same here.

it's a weekly occurence now it seems

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Similar here (Teesside).
BBC news site went off, other sites too. Some sites work, e.g. Channel4 site but some banners on the page won't display.
Email ok.
No newsgroups
Changed to a different proxy (cardiff) and bbc site works. Still no newsgroups.

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:disturbd: :disturbd: Same here in teesside

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Yep, I'm in Reading and Yahoo is playing up. It tends to load the text and struggles with the pictures. I rang tech help when it last happened and they had hundreds of people of in a phone queue and an automated message so I'm sure they are well aware of it this time. Hopefully won't take long to put right.
:rolleyes:

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Same here - no google services work.

Manchester

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Same here in Notts :monkey:

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Same here, BBC Google,Gamespot and many more are kaput or incredibly slow, different proxies give varying results, but all are rubbish.
Skype intermittantly down too, all looks foobared.

Just another day in paradise.

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Same here, I was wondering if it was just me - turns out it's not

I still have BBC and Yahoo access, but both google.co.uk and google.com are dead.

I can ping www.google.com and it resolves and replies:

Pinging www.google.com [66.102.9.147] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.102.9.147: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=244


But going to www.google.com or .co.uk gets nowhere.
However, going to http://66.102.9.147 works :shocked:

Rather odd - it was working fine about 15 minutes ago

[Edit]As of posting, www.google.com is back up again here, now. .co.uk still down[/Edit]
[Edit2] As of adding that edit, .co.uk now works. Interesting - all up here and working again now, although still a little confused[/Edit2]

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They seriously should add "intermittent service problem to popular websites" as the new features.

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Problems in Cambridge CB4 too!

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Did go off briefly here but now seems to be working ok :tu:

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Could this be a DDOS attack again ?

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Problems are occuring here now in Leicestershire and just spoke to sister on other side of town same there, seems to be be dns issues again

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Luton LU3 ebay acting up strangely when viewed from my ntl connection here, getting diverted to "Uk.com" and all sorts, weird problems with google, bbc etc also, as per others

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Possibly, I wonder. Are the symptoms we are seeing now the same?
Like uno says though, could be a knacked or partially knacked dns.

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I admit my knowledge of DDOS attacks is rather limited, but would not a DDOS affect all service, not just select websites, as appeared to be the case? That would be unless the DDOS was on the side of Google/bbc/yahoo but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case here.

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The front page report on the last DDOS attack gave a link to a thread, it had redirects to other sites ands intermittant access to google bbc etc in it, looks the same this time :(

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Belfast, Northern Ireland - yahoo & ebay, amongst others, are inaccessible at the moment.

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If you can resolve the IP address, but not the domain name, it points very much towards NTL's 'infamous' DNS servers.

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seems like NTL servers are getting dossed again.
if they cant control it i can see them losing loads of customers

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Newsgroups appear to have come back.
Google,yahoo now working.
(still on the cardiff proxy).

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And in Harrogate/Knaresborough

This doesn't seem like a DDoS, more like a knackered DNS server due to the focused nature of the problem i.e. popular sites such as Google, Yahoo & the BBC.

Last time this happened I rang India (or NTL as it is otherwise known) and was told "no problems sir, reboot your stb".

I really hate NTL, if we could recieve Terristrial signals or were allowed to put a Sky dish up (building is listed and next to a cliff face) then I would drop NTL like David Seaman.

I hope this gets sorted soon and they offer a proper explanation.

Cheers
D

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Seems my rejoice for it working was premature. Google once again down, now BBC is very weird (no stylesheet) and I've lost yahoo now too :(

I'd agree - for now, I'm surfing by IP, and all is fine.

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Slow browsing, google not available. Ellesmere Port area, Cheshire.

:(

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They come and go, it appears to be fixed then seconds later fails again.

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I am going to ring India now

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Just had a text message from a friend whose engineer for ntl he has just been advised it is a fault with dns servers cause not known also some problems with dchp servers in certain areas affecting new registrations and ip refreshes

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lol all agents are busy, and again, you get the feeling they've pulled the plug on tech support whilst they sort this poo out.

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Good Luck !

As usual the service status page doesn't mention anything.

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Ive got into my Gmail inbox..it's been a little slow but it does load.There was a little note that Google chat is having problems but as I don't use it I'm 'not bovvered'.

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Yep, google is a gonner here.

I know some name servers I use (zomeedit) have seen under ddos attack again today, I wonder if ntl are under attack again as well (which was the problem last time).

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Same in Glasgow. DDOS again?

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Could also be caused by loads of people trying to see how the Budget will affect them> :shrug: Just a thought :scratch:

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Well this is a first, mines working fine :)

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It's a joke!

The tech support is doing an engaged thing.

I am going to be moving soon and when I do I am going to take great pleasure in disconnecting NTL. I will never ever use them again.

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Tried changing DNS, some sites came back others (Yahoo/Google for two) didn't.

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Its just too intermittent now.
I think I'll just go do something more useful that doesn't involve computers for a couple of hours :).

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ebay.co.uk has gone all weird too - a big pain cos I have stuff ending in less than 24 hours, gah! :(

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ahh same problems as say 2 weeks ago.... this time I dont think its a ddos but more likely NTL's crappy network

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Still down in Harrogate/Knaresborough

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Google seems fine, however ebay, bbc and yahoo borked here in NN10.

Oh well, I wonder what's on telly tonight?

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It is definately a DNS issue.
I have just changed my DNS option on my router from 'Automatic from ISP' to 212.104.130.9. And instantly, everything that did not work, now works. I changed it back just to confirm. And again Adobe.com/google/yahoo partially or fully fail to load.

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You might want to think about that a bit more. It's exactly the same as last time, google and bbc. If it was a network problem all sites would be the same. The cause is almost certainly the same (and as I already said, I know other dns services are under attack today).

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Same here in Guildford area

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same here in warwick. cant connect to google or very slow.

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ditto

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Having problems down in Guildford too :(

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Same problem in Middlesbrough. Just been on the phone to them and the guy reckoned there was nothing wrong with the service.

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damn barstewards, i can't get on bob the builder website, now what am i gonna do wahahahahaaaaa.

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When I called NTL a couple of weeks ago, to say I wished to part company with them, why was I stupid enough to accept their 'bribe' to stay :dozey:

I could sort of accept if DNS has died/got 404 error, but how do I end up with this: http://www.uk.com/results/bbc?src=bbc :confused:

I just can't wait for my BT exchange to be upgraded to 8 Meg VERY soon.

I want to get out of here :walk:

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Ditto........intermittent here in Leeds

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It's up and down like a yo-yo in Nottingham. The Register seems to be down as well....

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That's down to spyware/adware on your PC which is probably taking over your browser when you would normally get Page Cannot Be Displayed, and redirecting you to the site you're seeing.

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This is all becoming a bit of a joke now. I accept that these things do occasionally happen but this is getting fairly frequent now.

You would hope that some of the money we shell out every month actually goes on upgrading the infrastructure instead of the 'quick fix' method NTL seem to be using at the moment.

It would be interesting to find out what the availabilty has been in the last 12 months..............I would be suprised if its even in the 90's :mad:

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I hope not :shocked: , fullyspyware/adaware checked this afternoon, in fact

It's only during this DNS issue, normally is fine.

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no it's not. More likely the dns issue; ressolving the wrong IP.

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agreed, I also have been misdirected to uk.com, and not through any spyware, indeed, not even from a windows platform :P

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you know who owns that dns server and whether they'd mind us using it while ntl's seems to be down?

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Its all messed up tonight.
I hope it get's fixed soon.

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yes, Google & BBC, & Hotmail are not loading full stop, MSN Messenger isn't signing in, all other sites are very slow to load and and images don't load up.

North West London here

Last week they tried blaming it on a DoS attack, what's going to be the excuse this week?

By the way would everyone post which ISP they are on, so we know if its just ****ty NTL or not?

I'm on NTL 2MB

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SOLUTION!

Ok I just called India. Not expecting them to fix it BUT it would seem there is a temporary solution.

In Internet explorer click
Internet Options
Connections
Lan Settings
Tick the PROXY at the bottom and type 213.105.224.18

Now browse, and EVERYTHING works again.

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What port?

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Sorry missed that. I was advised port 8080. But i left it as 80 and its working fine. I presume it works on both.

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Same for me here in Leeds. However my work pc had similar problems today and that definitely doesnt use NTL :erm:

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Not so much a solution as a temporary fix....

Remember that if you specify a proxy server to remove it after the problems are resolved, otherwise there will be a million ntl customers trying to go through the same proxy...

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Still nothing on the status page (which is still working currently, hardly anything else is now - even this site takes minutes to load now).
I guess NTL will ignore us all as usual, looks like they are the target of an attack like last time, seems not to have affected any other ISP's (nothing on adslguide forum when I can load it).
NTL really need to get a handle on their crappy network, seems they ****ed off the wrong people somewhere along the line -funny how its always them thats attacked...

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thanks, sort of working now. Hotmail still says 'account temporarily unavailable' but that could be unrelated.

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Thats swan-cach-8.server.ntli.net loads more are available i'm sure somebody has a link to it, or that proxy will get very clogged :)

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They have now posted something on their service status page. Say slow/intermittent browsing due to a network fault, engineers working on the issue.

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Glasgow here BBC, Yahoo, Apple and various other sires down here.

I'm not getting redirected though. Just page unavailable. Tried using oprea (my prefered browser) and IE.

Funny thing is though that all of the sites ither that one in my favourites are OK, loading a bit slow but still loading.

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If folks are after news on the budget http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest
worked for me. ;)

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Thanks. Anyone got a list of the actual numbers of the NTL servers in case this one gets clogged as Marky suggests?

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I found it http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=8783 all the info you need :)

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I don't seem to be able to connect via ftp to any of my websites (both on and off ntl webspace) - very weird.

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http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceSt...px?FaultID=502

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sorry, that was already posted didn't notice

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well i'm having to change me proxies so many times now
the ntl service has gone way down hill this month.
Geez some people must hate ntl to cause these sort of problems

maybe it some telewest fan boys cryign about the merger?

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lol! innit damn telewest fanboy/fangirl, sado!

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Google seems to be back for me, however MSN and a few others are still not responding.

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Thanks marky.

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lol go to windows update....

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We had no service all afternoon until about an hour ago.

Can anybody here get on to www.microsoft.com ?

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Yes, but very slow, and no images load up, its basicly a white backround with a few blue hyperlinks

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I can't here. Having some generally wierd problems also

like no images on lots of sites like amazon and so on

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I am in the Grimsby area (DN37) and I am having problems with connection to major sites. This includes: WWE.com; Google.co.uk and Google.com; BBC.co.uk and its sister sites; and eBay.com and its sister sites like eBay.co.uk.

Is this the DoS attack again? We really should get a petition sent to :ntl as this is ridiculous. It is like the third time in as many weeks!

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And me in Rochdale is all happy and fine, not a single issue to report not one.

So am I the only happy ntl customer in the known universe?

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No :mad:

However, I'm greatful to get anything, as my modem keeps dropping off the network. Having spent 45 minutes on phone to India on Monday (hmm, that would have been a nice priced call at 0871 rates) I 'allegedly' have an engineer booked for modem swapout. I'll not hold my breath.

Wonder if this DNS issue will have been fixed by then? Would be a good excuse not to fix my modem's problem :rolleyes:

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DNS - Deny Normal Service? :rofl:

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Well in my humble opinion.. I'd say you are. :D

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Cannot access microsoft at all nor google, gmail, ati and a few others to name a few. I had trouble with this site earlier. I am in Rutherglen G73 area. All was fine this afternoon until about 6pm. :(

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What a load of rubbish this service is. NTL was fine until recently - now it's useless. We'll wait for the excuses about the imaginary hackers.

Right, got that off my chest. I'll forgive this occasion, but the next time they can stuff their 12 month contract, and hello BT.

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Well, I've just come back from a day out to find I have a new IP address. Looks like something is cocking up.

Oh and I can't get AVG to update. Not another DDOS attack?

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Been having problems in PO12 area since 5.30 pm
Cannot access Yahoo, Google, to name a few

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Hi,

Same probs here in NG17. Same as happened a week or two ago. Some sites ok but alot don't load. I must admit it does seem to be getting worse.

I will do my best never to ring the Indian call centre again as they have a standard answer - your pc,spyware,virus. It's never their fault!!

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So long as it works as it is, I LOVE YOU NTL...

*flees incoming bullets from other members....*