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Eircom DSL - DNS Lookups Slow

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    #362
    RareVintage
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭RareVintage


    flav0rflav wrote: »
    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.

    A bit like the Irish economy then?


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    #363
    eezarthegreat
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭eezarthegreat


    You'd swear there was a hamster in my router...slow as **** here


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    #364
    tagoona
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭tagoona


    DNS back down again today. Just after fixing the neighbours computer with an opendns settings.
    Pain in the ass is that eircom support last week swore blind that it wasn't a dns server problem. Idiots


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    #365
    Owwmykneecap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭Owwmykneecap


    This is happening way too often...

    What are the risks /disadvantages of Open DNS?

    Now playing: The Chemical Brothers - In Dust We Trust via FoxyTunes


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    #366
    Acoustic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Acoustic


    seriously considering telling eircom to F**K Off

    serious pain in the nads with them now


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    #367
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Requests can be slower as your ISPs nameserver are usually a lot closer and there more private. But, its something you probably wont notice very much.

    Other then that.. nothing really. Some might claim its not safe as its public, but the general finding is that its safer then ISPs NS are more pron to attacks and downtime.


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    #368
    Saggitarius
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Saggitarius


    I'm not fully qualified in IT but what is the situ actually?
    The ping is OK to eircom.net but the comprehensive netw. statistic for each protocol give me an interesting results at IP section.


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    #369
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Has anyone got the official word from eircom about what the hell is going on?

    My Internet was fecked last week, grand at the weekend and now it's gone again! Sick of this crap.


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    #370
    Whiplash
    Registered Users Posts: 416 ✭✭Whiplash


    swithed to opendns and all is working perfect


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    #371
    Saggitarius
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Saggitarius


    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    Has anyone got the official word from eircom about what the hell is going on?

    My Internet was fecked last week, grand at the weekend and now it's gone again! Sick of this crap.


    I'm totally agree with you. The best in all: the "own" -eircom.net- site is impossible to reach, the eircom.ie is still running.


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    #372
    DeadSkin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    Whiplash wrote: »
    swithed to opendns and all is working perfect

    Yup, two laptops in the house here, switched one of them to opendns and running fine, t'other is acting the maggot.

    Gonna change the settings on router me thinks.


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    #373
    Stev_o
    Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Stev_o


    Sweet jesus is it slow today, poor hamsters must of died. Somehow boards though isn't too bad but still terribly slow.


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    #374
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    i switched to opendns and cant get connected at all now! i am using my meteor phone to post this! also the eircon.net dns settings don't work. maybe i am doing something wrong? i opened the router page in firefox and can change the dns and save it but the router fails to connect. the internet light on the modem router is red.


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    #375
    Saggitarius
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Saggitarius


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    i switched to opendns and cant get connected at all now! i am using my meteor phone to post this! also the eircon.net dns settings don't work. maybe i am doing something wrong? i opened the router page in firefox and can change the dns and save it but the router fails to connect. the internet light on the modem router is red.


    A couple of days ago did for me as well. I'm restarted the router and run everything fine till today evening. I can reach some pages very slowly and some running OK exempt eircom.net


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    #376
    BlitzKrieg
    Registered Users Posts: 14,685 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    I wont pretend to know why my internetz has gone to sh*te but I am getting mighty p*ssed off at them.


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    #377
    Saggitarius
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Saggitarius


    I give up for tday and I going to watch TV. Hopefully it's be fixed up to tmrrw.


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    #378
    Antrim_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Antrim_Man


    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

    Done and it works, but do I return to default when Eircom have sorted out their issues?


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    #379
    Bobalicious93
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Bobalicious93


    I can't get the opendns site to load.

    EDIT: nevermind, thanks Star Bingo


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    #380
    Acoustic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Acoustic


    Bobalicious93 wrote: »
    I can't get the opendns site to load.

    EDIT: nevermind, thanks Star Bingo

    type in 192.168.1.254 into the address bar

    expert mode > config > connection


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    #381
    bob11
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭bob11


    Just spoke to a friendly eircom tech who told me to use the Open DNS settings as above ..

    He apologied profusely and said that all 3 DNS servers had crashed tonight and they were trying to reboot them ..

    He also said to log a complaint on 1800 200481 to get a broadband refund


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    #382
    mindstorms
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭mindstorms


    Just changed my LAN connection to poke OpenDNS first and it's working much better now. There is a very slight pause when you load a new web address, but then is perfect after that. Will keep with OpenDNS for a while. Will also give Eircom and call tomorrow to log a complaint.


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    #383
    aidanodr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    Just on to my Sister, switched her to opendns also, all fine now on the browsing side.

    BUT - Any of you using @eircom.net email addresses?

    Go check, they are now flaky also. Not working tonight OR are slow OR are intermittent.

    EDIT: checked again, email working again .. not holding my breath though!

    And before anyone panics - OPEN DNS settings DO NOT interfere with your eircom email and / or emails. As I explained a good bit back DNS Servers handle real address translation - eg www.eircom.net - to that sites associated unique IP address - eg 200.200.200.7

    WHY does this translation happen? The "internet" does not understand the addresses we type, it understands the IP address numbers. The DNS servers translate your browsers real name request to its associated unique IP addy and then delivers the requested page to you to see.

    Where emails are concerned they use different server systems - namely POP / SMTP and / or IMAPI servers.

    It would seem Eircom are having trouble with these tonight also

    Cheers
    Aidan


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    #384
    DeepBlue
    Registered Users Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭DeepBlue


    Antrim_Man wrote: »
    Done and it works, but do I return to default when Eircom have sorted out their issues?
    Just replace the OpenDNS server entries with 0.0.0.0 and restart your to return to eircom settings.


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    #385
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    Changed to OpenDNS on the router & steaming along now.
    This DNS thing has been going on for months with eircom.
    Has there been a valid reason given for all the problems ?.


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    #386
    aidanodr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Changed to OpenDNS on the router & steaming along now.
    This DNS thing has been going on for months with eircom.
    Has there been a valid reason given for all the problems ?.

    Suspected hacker attack on Eircom internet service

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0708/1224250235657.html

    As per times last week ..

    Aidan


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    #387
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    I'm on Eircom brownband and it's as dead as a dodo, can't connect at all.

    How do I switch to Open DNS and what's the risk ?


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    #388
    corkandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 504 ✭✭✭corkandproud


    those openDNS addresses have me back up and running.

    Will I need to revert to the original settings?


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    #389
    Famous45
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Famous45


    Thanks for Star Bingo for the information and everyone else who has given out advice. This happened to me for the first time tonight, and I thought it was due to the lightning strikes in the area earlier but having read this it seems as if the issue is affecting me too but I entered the new dns numbers and everything is working perfect. Cheers

    Can I just leave the settings as they are now?


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    #390
    francosp
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭francosp


    Alan Rouge wrote: »
    I'm on Eircom brownband and it's as dead as a dodo, can't connect at all.

    How do I switch to Open DNS and what's the risk ?


    What do you mean by cant connect ?

    Does your router have all green lights on


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    #391
    aidanodr
    Registered Users Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    As I stated and others a good while back - SWITCH YOUR ROUTERS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DNS Settings over to OPENDNS. Assuming you have the Eircom Netopia Router read the following ( ala Isaac702 a while back ):

    - Open your browser. Go to your router IP address (usually 192.168.1.254) in a internet browser. Type this address in the address bar where you have http://www. whatever at the moment.
    - Click Expert Mode in the left hand menu. Then click on "Yes, enter expert mode".
    - Click on Configure in the left hand menu and then click Connection in the list that appears.
    - On this page you get a area to type in the Primary and Secondary DNS Addresses ( maybe currently set to 0.0.0.0 for both ). This is where you type in OpenDNS's DNS Addresses:

    Primary: 208.67.222.222
    Secondary: 208.67.220.220

    - You then click Save Changes and restart the router.
    - You should now be on OpenDNS's DNS Servers. If you want to go back to using Eircom's again simply remove OpenDNS's IP Addresses.

    Your problems ARE more than likely the same as everyone else.

    PLEASE NOTE - their are MANY different routers on the market. RTFM and find out how to change DNS addresses for your own router to above. Impossible to cover all routers here.

    LEAVING YOUR ROUTER SET TO OPENDNSes DNS IP ADDRESSES DOES NO HARM TO YOUR ROUTER OR INTERNET CONNECTION. NEITHER DOES IT INTERFERE WITH YOUR CONTRACT WITH EIRCOM. JUST LEAVE THEM THERE FROM HERE ON, THEY ARE FINE!

    Aidan


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