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latemodel

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Sep 03, 2009 14:49

I've been having problems with Comcast DNS for 24 hours now. Manual configuration works, auto-detect via DHCP doesn't, even with the same addresses. Google tells me that their DNS shits the bed roughly once every two years, so we're right on schedule.

Anyone else having problems, or is it just me?

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seishino September 4 2009, 01:29:40 UTC

At my old apartment I had such problems with Comcast DNS, that I switched over to a few of the free DNS resolution servers out there.

If it is dying for you only once every two years, you're doing well.

iabervon September 4 2009, 02:30:38 UTC

One of my friends who has Comcast had her DNS stop working, and we determined that her airport was getting a non-existent private network by DHCP instead of the cable modem's DHCP info. It listed Comcast's server as its second choice, however, which made us suspect that something else was advertizing a server by DHCP. The start of this behavior was suspiciously close to a lease renewal period after she and one of her housemates upgrades to Snow Leopard. My theory is that something in the Snow Leopard upgrade makes it easy to accidentally configure a private network and advertize it by DHCP. On the other hand, it's possible that Comcast has messed up and started giving 192.168.2.1 as a DNS server.

latemodel September 4 2009, 17:51:51 UTC

The private network behavior happened at least once to me, and could be the root of the problem. I went around checkingFTP make sure none of
my boxes was trying to hand out 192.168 addresses, but none of them were. I haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard, either. The thing it coincided with in my household was that my roommate was running a torrent program. Interestingly, she stopped the program and now the problem has resolved. Could be that Comcast got their shit together, or maybe the program was the issue all along.

latemodel September 4 2009, 17:52:57 UTC

^^ checking to make sure

iPhone autocorrect sure is interesting.

violentbloom September 17 2009, 09:14:54 UTC

that was my experience with them about 4 years ago... it took 3 months for them to clean it up. If you complain on twitter you should get speedy comments about how this never happens from their staff. Perhaps they might fix it for you if you post. But I doubt it.