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TechFreak · 20-03-2008, 14:25

I have been on the phone to Virgin Tech Support this morning and identified how i solved the problem by using the OPENDNS.com DNS Servers addresses.

Virgin have now confirmed that they have a known problem with a couple of their DNS Servers which are down at the moment.

Virgin Tech Support have given me two temporary Virgin DNS Servers addresses to use to replace the OPENDNS.com addresses. (just to keep things going via Virgin)

These are :

193.38.113.3
194.117.157.4

(will try these tonight as i'm at work)

Virgin Tech Support also said 'every couple of days set your Lan card & Router DNS Servers back to 'Request default' in case they resolve the issue'

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR GAMERS : The way OPENDNS.com works is by keeping cached pages that other users have went to. If you are generally surfing the web this won't make much difference to you and may even find surfing faster.

But if your a gamer like myself then this is a problem as I play Battlefield 2 all the time and could not connect to most servers as the cached Server List being extracted through OPENDNS.com was most likely out of date.

20-03-2008, 14:25	#17
TechFreak Inactive Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 10	Re: router will not share cable broadband? I have been on the phone to Virgin Tech Support this morning and identified how i solved the problem by using the OPENDNS.com DNS Servers addresses. Virgin have now confirmed that they have a known problem with a couple of their DNS Servers which are down at the moment. Virgin Tech Support have given me two temporary Virgin DNS Servers addresses to use to replace the OPENDNS.com addresses. (just to keep things going via Virgin) These are : 193.38.113.3 194.117.157.4 (will try these tonight as i'm at work) Virgin Tech Support also said 'every couple of days set your Lan card & Router DNS Servers back to 'Request default' in case they resolve the issue' IMPORTANT NOTE FOR GAMERS : The way OPENDNS.com works is by keeping cached pages that other users have went to. If you are generally surfing the web this won't make much difference to you and may even find surfing faster. But if your a gamer like myself then this is a problem as I play Battlefield 2 all the time and could not connect to most servers as the cached Server List being extracted through OPENDNS.com was most likely out of date.