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BlanDaMan

30-12-2011 09:04

Virgin blocking non-virgin DNS again?

Hi,

this morning I had a problem where web sites would not load. In the past I'd used google's namebench which had selected these nameservers:

Quote:

#SpitfireUK GB
nameserver 217.13.128.17
# Eclipse Internet GB
nameserver 212.104.130.9
#UUnet-EU4 GB
nameserver 158.43.240.4

However, nothing was resolving. I switched back to virgin's own DNS

Quote:

nameserver 194.168.4.100
nameserver 194.168.8.100

and all was fine. This has happened before - does anyone know if this is a mistake, or a policy, and if so, where Virgin announce these kind of things?

Cheers!
A.

Milambar

30-12-2011 09:45

Re: Virgin blocking non-virgin DNS again?

No issues here, currently using

Code:

username@fileserver:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 8.8.8.8

nameserver 8.8.4.4

Resolves things just fine for me.

pooper

30-12-2011 16:13

Re: Virgin blocking non-virgin DNS again?

Same for me, I'm using OpenDNS and I've never had any issues (no DNS related issues anyway) :P

Matth

30-12-2011 20:51

Re: Virgin blocking non-virgin DNS again?

It's possible those addresses are no longer public open, which may be the case for any that are not actually designated public.
The two best known public DNSes, are:
OpenDNS - 208.67.222.222. 208.67.220.220
Google public DNS - 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Another one is http://www.dnsadvantage.com/
156.154.70.1
156.154.71.1

Name.space (alternate root) 209.48.2.11
209.48.2.189

General Maximus

30-12-2011 21:23

Re: Virgin blocking non-virgin DNS again?

i have been using google for yonks and had no problems

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