NTL Internet access problems - 07 Mar 2006

Problems in Manchester, DNS, Cache, Proxy, Email etc. etc.

Luckly i can do a vpn connection to work and get back on track.

[nadeem]

huh lol to the statement, looks like ntl have over estimated their network.

[salsa]

cache3-lang.server.ntli.net:8080

that proxy definitely worked for me, thx all for that one, even my messenger connects yippeee!! try that one guys.

[hammered]

Originally Posted by Shabba

Problems all over the country (i phoned a few fellow ntl wired mates).

I'd love to know why reporting an outage is whinging?

Shabba, because I've been having problems with online gaming for weeks now (along with lots of others), and all that user could say is that we're all just a bunch of whingers for complaining...

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by graz1999

Seems to be lots of activity here, some of it quite usefull for my purposes...
I work for NTL, and we ARE aware there is a problem, what we are not aware is the exact server or servers responsible, specifying proxies does seem to resolve in most cases.
If any of you can advise what you think is the problem with soemthing to back it up, I'll monitor the thread untill I go home at midnight.

If I get any update on what we have found I'll post that too.

Graz
(Trying my best to stand up in the avalanche of people calling at present!)

thanks and welcome to the forum.

[Mr Angry]

I was advised to order a taxi - does that count?

[etccarmageddon]

Originally Posted by hammered

Shabba, because I've been having problems with online gaming for weeks now (along with lots of others), and all that user could say is that we're all just a bunch of whingers for complaining...

who called you a bunch of whingers? an NTL employee?

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cache3-lang.server.ntli.net:8080 appears to be better for me too.

[graz1999]

Thats because our DNS servers have changed, and these havent given me a timeout in over an hour of constant ping.
Nslookup ...
> dns1.ntli.net

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: dns1.ntli.net
Address: 62.253.162.237
> dns2.ntli.net

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: dns2.ntli.net
Address: 194.168.4.237

BTW I'm not a network guru just a tech on the phone.

[vileda]

Still a bit pants.

Strange that plus.net had similiar problems a couple of days ago

http://portal.plus.net/supportpages....d=connectivity

[Barewolf]

Originally Posted by asdf

I've not noticed a problem with actual speed. I can stream things at full 100+kbps. However, DNS is *very* laggy. However, once I've resolved an IP it zips along.

Is it DNS problems for everyone else or have I got something else?!

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Try going to : http://66.102.9.104/

That google addy works, .co.uk and .com dont and links inside the search dont work

Originally Posted by graz1999

The only thing I know is an abnormal amount of traffic hitting the dhcps, all cache servers / dns respond normally at present.

thanks, reminds us to keep the firewalls up

[etccarmageddon]

"there are no problems with our network"

[robertdanmorris]

dont know if you can help, couple of times when it wasn't working (google that is) www.answerferret.com came up - never heard of it, is this a problem with my computer or just an odd going on because of ntl, it's never happened before and only happened a couple of times

[hammered]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

who called you a bunch of whingers? an NTL employee?

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cache3-lang.server.ntli.net:8080 appears to be better for me too.

No, it was the guy i mentioned earlier in the thread...
He called me "one of life's whingers" for complaining about problems with online gaming, that no-one in NTL seems to be bothered about fixing.

[vileda]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

has anyone rung the tech line yet and been told to reinstall windows! lol

Especially if you had a mac!!