Eircom DSL - DNS Lookups Slow

Copyright

hey not sure if this is the right thread? but anyway here goes,
my internet has been f**ked for a little over a week now,

Last week I was getting a DNS error on some pages, Then internet went for a whole day! red light on the router my mates had this too ( in my area not sure if it was outside of where I'm based aswell) Im in enniscorthy co.wexford btw, so I couldnt do nothing online all day then, it came back, didnt seem to get that dns error for a while but now some sites f**k up my broadband altogether, I cant stay on psn for any more than 5 mins at the most, On ps3 I get an error has occurred and you have been signed out of the playstation network, then when that happens my internet goes for a few minutes, dont get red light but any site I try to load brings me to my routers page , ( on pc,laptop,ipod touch etc ) Last night I reset the router, and didnt help at all really, today I Got red light for 5 mins when no one else in my area got it please help if you can, thanks

Lupo_solitario

Red light means you have no dsl connection ,Could be the Hub for the area has gone down or your router has a problem,if no one else in the area had the problem well it has to be in your connection or router

kleefarr

I've had the RED light a few times this week. First time ever.
I wonder if they're trying to upgrade some stuff.

Rebel021

Its back to being very erratic again and not much of a difference with the opendns settings

Copyright

openDNS isnt helping it at all either
I rang eircom they said theres nothing they can really do and they dont notice any fault in my area

ShiverinEskimo

If you're still having problems despite switching to OpenDNS I would imagine you're being affected by a different issue - possible line-specific or local to you.

sunzz

Happening again ??

DeepBlue

sunzz wrote: »

Happening again ??

It seems so.
Switching over to opendns again solved the problem.

keen

sunzz wrote: »

Happening again ??

Switched to Open DNS ten minutes ago and my connection is fine since.

tinkerbell

*sigh* Here we go again .... WTF EIRCOM SORT THIS CRAP OUT!!! :mad:

bazzachazza

Same issues here in Meath. Been happening for the last week or so.

Plascebo

Same here in Dublin 13, gone very erratic, what is happening... is this a short term thing with eircom, or something long-term?

foggy_lad

pain in the a%$e here in Carlow! going to do that open dns thing now:)

robbie_998

happening to every body on the Dublin server

DNS either jacked again or something as the same as last time

Finical

Going to change to openDNS then on ps3 aswell.

flav0rflav

Yep, DNS server not responding to queries. OpenDNS seems like best option, been working fine.

Sarn

Switched to openDNS as well. At least we can get around Eircom's issues.

Mr.Nice Guy

Yep I'm in Dublin (Northside) and it's been acting up again for me this evening. Youtube and Google very erratic. Boards doing pretty good but sometimes it goes off for me as well.

A shame because the last couple of days it's been working grand.

jamesie_boy

hello everyone, how exactly do you get open dns to work??
eircom is really f**king up on me here in meath:mad:

Star Bingo

dublin exchange the past no. of days i've been using another DNS - it may be on the other side of the world but feels much closer - i'm leaving you.

EDIT: www.openDNS.com

measurement

jamesie_boy wrote: »

hello everyone, how exactly do you get open dns to work??
eircom is really f**king up on me here in meath:mad:

Search farther back in this thread, about a week or so (sorry) and you will find the details. No point in me searching and repeating, since I've already changed over.:D

mindstorms

Seems to be happening here in Cork too - but only recently. Was on this morning and all was fine. Now, every second or third page stalls while the DNS (I assume) tries to resolve the host name.

RareVintage

My mail app went offline at 5.30, then everything slowed down and now the router diagnotics says it cannot connect to Eircom.

Who would want to disable Eircom? Did they piss off Kim Jong Il or something?!
I read one comment after the last time this happened suggesting that hacker-teams (private or governmental) are using an attack on Eircom to test new disabling programmes... domain name server poisoning!
Official advice suggests you make sure your source code is thoroughly cooked and always wash your keyboards before handling virtual data!

You can imagine that there's one stressed out, underpaid, guy at cash-strapped Eircom who constitutes the security "team".... "Feckin' Kim feckin Jong Il, Oi'll feckin poison his feckin dns the gobshoite, .... my feckin day off as well...."

I didn't bother messing with changing the router settings over to OpenDNS after the last attack (not a techie and scared!) but I suppose I'll give it a go.

Oh well.... one question though... how come this website worked (albeit very slowly)? I can't load any other website right now but this one works.
C'mon techies, explain that one!

All the best from sunny Cork

measurement

Interesting situation with Eircom this evening.
I've changed to the open dns settings, so I've got Google etc. However, although I can access www.eircom.ie, I can't access www.eircom.net. Nor can I send/receive from my webmail account with eircom.
HOWEVER!!!!! when I changed the account to send from to Gmail (in Outlook), even though the outgoing SMTP is mail1.eircom.net, it sent ok, even though it wouldn't send from my eircom account.
Is this because the webmail server has specific problems, but the mail sender software is working, I wonder?
That UPC/NTL offer to change to digital tv + phone + broadband is looking good. Does anyone know if they will wire the router up in a different room from the tv?

RareVintage

that worked after 5 re-sends!
Suppose I'll read a book instead...

Star Bingo

openDNS:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

msrmt put them into your router's DNS settings, primary and secondary. at least that can still be accessed through our browsers - do likewise for other devices that require it

EDIT: jamesie soz - damn weed

Mr.Nice Guy

I think this is the worst I've experienced.

flav0rflav

RareVintage wrote: »

Oh well.... one question though... how come this website worked (albeit very slowly)? I can't load any other website right now but this one works.
C'mon techies, explain that one!

Caching (of the address, not the pages). The slowness is due to changing ads and graphics coming from other non-cached domains.

And perhaps the eircom DNS isn't in a completely vegetative state, so that it manages to serve one or two requests every now and again.

tinkerbell

lol, I thought it was back again because google started working again for me, but it's not *cries*

Thank GOD boards still works!!

measurement

Star Bingo wrote: »

openDNS:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

msrmt put them into your router's DNS settings, primary and secondary. at least that can still be accessed through our browsers - do likewise for other devices that require it

EDIT: jamesie soz - damn weed

Thanks for the suggestion. I've actually done the DNS change on the Netopia already, and the D-Link router doesn't care, so I have www ok. However, I can see incoming mail (using Mailwasher) but when it arrives at Outlook, there is a failure.
On the other hand, despite my earlier post, I was able to send a test to myself (no error this time on send) but receiving isn't working. must be the retrieval from the Eircom mail server, but I'm going to re-boot in case Outlook has got itself in a knot.

must have heard me - email working ok now though the eircom.net site still won't respond. Are their electricians back at work?