Messenger, TeamSpeak etc will not connect (Tamworth / Lichfield issues ?)

[toytown]

Yep seems fixed here

[nostra]

anyone correct me if i am wrong here but i believe the issue was this:

there were problems with the winnersh datacentre yesterday as you have seen in other posts

this was affecting
- Email
- Homepages
- ntlworld.com
- newsgroups...
- DNS

on an intermittent basis

the DNS servers being intermittent were causing problems connecting to anything not going through ntl web proxies as it may not have been resolving your request however the proxies have cached DNS resolution so did not need to rely on the dns servers

but anything not connecting via proxies would have caused intermittent problems with dns resolution

there is also a problem with routing on a certain ip range but i do not believe that this affects you guys

hope this clarifies a little

[BizBo]

Originally Posted by nostra

anyone correct me if i am wrong here but i believe the issue was this:

there were problems with the winnersh datacentre yesterday as you have seen in other posts

this was affecting
- Email
- Homepages
- ntlworld.com
- newsgroups...
- DNS

on an intermittent basis

the DNS servers being intermittent were causing problems connecting to anything not going through ntl web proxies as it may not have been resolving your request however the proxies have cached DNS resolution so did not need to rely on the dns servers

but anything not connecting via proxies would have caused intermittent problems with dns resolution

there is also a problem with routing on a certain ip range but i do not believe that this affects you guys

hope this clarifies a little

Yup seems to have been sorted. Would of been nice to have been more informed.

BizBo

Getting high pings on TeamSpeak, so it isn't fully fixed then.

[toytown]

Originally Posted by nostra

anyone correct me if i am wrong here but i believe the issue was this:

I dont think this was all the issues, for instance my VPN would not connect at all, even when i forced it to use the IP address of the VPN server in the states.

Also connecting to the 2 different news servers (1 in the uk, 1 in the states) i appeared to get an initial burst of speed (approx 400k) then the transfer would be cut, attempting to reconnect would usually fail, if it connected then i would get the same small download again before being cut off. I tried this with both DNS name and IP addresses, same results both times.

Also the FTP sessions i connect to are mostly IP address's and these werent working correctly (very frequent time outs)

The change happened around 9:00am yesterday and when i got up this morning everything was working perfectly again

[BizBo]

sounds like a screwed routing table or a duff router....or NTL

[mpmc]

Yes.. for me anyway... Apart from the fact we are still being charged 7.50 for a second line that was shut off in Nov

[nostra]

i know there were reports of a bad ip range where the routing was messed, but as i dont know what ranges you guys are on cant check to see if it matched

Still getting problems up here, AND I'M GETTING VERY ANNOYED AT IT

Mine is getting so bad that it effects webpages and IRC now

[Gaz RW]

im having big isssues with xbox live lagging, slow connection to websites etc.. this is in stafford though.. not too far away..

according to the tests ive run i have 20-30% packetloss

[BizBo]

Well, I have binned NTL's DNS's as they seem to be one of the major problems, without DNS the core of the internet falls flat on its face.

And if this is happening all over the place then I'm afraid the th'internet will crumble.

Since swapping out the DNS's I seem to have a stable system. However friends who are on the NTL stream (which was once a flowing river) are suffering much like you, I will keep monitoring things this end.

BizBo
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Originally Posted by Gaz RW

im having big isssues with xbox live lagging, slow connection to websites etc.. this is in stafford though.. not too far away..

according to the tests ive run i have 20-30% packetloss

Me thinks you are on a different bank to Lich/Rug I could be wrong.

BizBo
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Well, you could always try these open DNS's.

# ns2.ca.opennic.glue (Vancouver, BC, CA) - 199.175.137.212
# ns1.de.opennic.glue (Cologne, DE) - 217.115.138.24
# ns1.jp.opennic.glue (Tokyo, JP) - 219.127.89.34
# ns2.jp.opennic.glue (Tokyo, JP) - 219.127.89.37
# ns1.nz.opennic.glue (Auckland, NZ) - 202.89.131.4
# ns1.uk.opennic.glue (London, UK) - 194.164.6.112
# ns1.la.us.opennic.glue (New Orleans, LA, US) - 68.15.165.12
# ns1.phx.us.opennic.glue (Phoenix, AZ, US) - 63.226.12.96
# ns1.sfo.us.opennic.glue (San Francisco, CA, US) - 64.151.103.120

Hope it helps!