[GRLUG] !Linux-periodic dns failure

[Bill Littlejohn]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 12:57 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
>> Just curious, why is something like
>> this better than, say, Google's DNS
>> service?  I've used that for a while now,
>> and it's quite reliable and fast.
>
> <quote>all external DNS queries timed out except for Charter's
> DNS</quote>
>
> So alternate DNS providers won't help.  Odds are they are stuff and DNS
> queries not directed at their DNS servers [which very possibly violates
> you EULA].
>
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That was one of my first thoughts.. that Charter was interfering with
DNS traffic not destined for their DNS. But it didn't make sense why
this would happen 2-3 times a week for 10-15 minutes at a time.
Judging by the symptoms, it's far more likely that Charter is having
congestion issues as Michael suggested.
However, I still want to verify that is the case.  Perhaps they _are_
interfering with DNS as a form of traffic management? I guess I'll
find out more when I can test throughput to an IP while DNS is failed.

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