Intermittent Eircom BB issue?

thecornerboy

I'm experiencing intermittent Eircom broadband problems. As far as I can tell it's a DNS issue. Current connections and downloads aren't affected but opening new connections to websites fails. NSLOOKUP doesn't work for the problem period too.

I'm going to use other DNS servers temporarily to see how it goes, just wondering if anybody is experiencing similar issues?

Spear

thecornerboy wrote: »

I'm experiencing intermittent Eircom broadband problems. As far as I can tell it's a DNS issue. Current connections and downloads aren't affected but opening new connections to websites fails. NSLOOKUP doesn't work for the problem period too.

I'm going to use other DNS servers temporarily to see how it goes, just wondering if anybody is experiencing similar issues?

I'd suggest the OpenDNS servers as a replacement in the meantime.

elderlemon

Same problem here (in Dun Laoghaire). As the other posted suggested change dns settings and the problem goes away.

thecornerboy wrote: »

I'm experiencing intermittent Eircom broadband problems. As far as I can tell it's a DNS issue. Current connections and downloads aren't affected but opening new connections to websites fails. NSLOOKUP doesn't work for the problem period too.

I'm going to use other DNS servers temporarily to see how it goes, just wondering if anybody is experiencing similar issues?

Doomofman

Same problem in Artane.. Also my friends in Sandymount and Blanc have problems too

Hank Scorpio

thecornerboy wrote: »

I'm experiencing intermittent Eircom broadband problems. As far as I can tell it's a DNS issue. Current connections and downloads aren't affected but opening new connections to websites fails. NSLOOKUP doesn't work for the problem period too.

I'm going to use other DNS servers temporarily to see how it goes, just wondering if anybody is experiencing similar issues?

having the exact same problem here in kilkenny, more than half the time any ping request fails

Tryed changing to opendns didnt help.

Pinging home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=60
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 159.134.198.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 92ms, Maximum = 92ms, Average = 92ms

RayM

I've been having the same problem for the past few hours. Just switched to OpenDNS and it's working perfectly again. I've found Eircom Broadband particularly unreliable over the past few weeks.

Hank Scorpio

Sorry, needed to reboot router,

Opendns is working fine.

Doomofman

Open dns worked fine for me...

http://www.tweakvista.com/articles/39287/speed-up-web-browsing-with-opendns/

Praetorian

Same problem in Balbriggan. Happening all day!

Stuxnet

ya me also, in ennis, cant sign into psn on ps3, dns error 80710102
fixed with open dns settings

skelliser

ya same problem here!

dxhound2005

Same in Dundalk.

shinny

I had problems earlier today for about an hour, but it's ok again.

Dyr

Same here, opendns sorted it for me

opendns IP's posted below for anyone who (like me) was having problems getting them off the website because of the eircom DNS servers

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Lamposts

Sorted. Thanks guys.

piskins72

here too .. am using vodafone dongle at da moment!!

thecornerboy

I'm still having intermittent problems.

A few days before the DNS issue I had a PPPOE authentication issue, then the DNS issue which I solved by using OpenDNS servers but yesterday I had further intermittent problems with all connections dropped. The broadband router didn't report any problems so it's possibly a problem with the backhaul somewhere. Not sure. I'll ring Eircom and find out what the story is.

setanta

I'm also having problems with my BB. I'm getting a lot of packet loss and a lot of random ping time outs.

I'm with Vodafone - problem first noticed last Friday, logged with Vodafone, changing DNS initially helped but problem back again on Sunday and continuing.

Logged another call with Vodafone who checked line remotely and said no problems it must be my modem (I don't believe them!).

It's bloody frustrating and I'm not sure what my next steps should be - all suggestions welcome.