Shaw DNS Issues? (Resolved, changed DNS servers)

[Mr. Analog]

Is anyone else having issues with Shaw DNS today?

I can reach most sites but in particular deviantArt is not resolving for me (and I go on there pretty much every day).

Very annoying, I did an online (zoneedit.com) DNS lookup of deviantart.com and it came back as 8.10.77.140, which I can ping, but if I try to navigate to that IP with my browser there is a redirect to the domain name and it fails.

I tried editing my host file with the IP and that didn't work :-/

I'm pretty sure this is a Shaw only problem as I can hit deviantart.com through the Telus network (phone) and doing ping through a third-party site seems to work.

Very annoying!

Anyway, I'm hoping this is something that will get fixed for tomorrow, I'm running a contest and most of my entrants are in the US (which is celebrating Memorial Day this weekend). Hopefully they are reading my twitter to figure out where I am!

[Tom]

Switch to OpenDNS or something. I stopped using Shaw's DNS servers years ago.

[Mr. Analog]

Switch to OpenDNS or something. I stopped using Shaw's DNS servers years ago.

Details plz

[Mr. Analog]

What about Google Public DNS?

[Mr. Analog]

Okay, I resolved it by using Google Public DNS

For Tonnica's sake (who is likely having this problem as well) here's a quick "how to"
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

[Tom]

Yeah, Google aught to work as well. Also You can set your router to use google dns, and then you won't have to change any settings on your computers.

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah, Google aught to work as well. Also You can set your router to use google dns, and then you won't have to change any settings on your computers.

I would do so but I can't seem to find the setting.

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah, Google aught to work as well. Also You can set your router to use google dns, and then you won't have to change any settings on your computers.

I would do so but I can't seem to find the setting.

DERP DERP I just found it...

[Lazybones]

I have tested opendns and google dns but went back to my local shaw dns because the latancy was horrid on them.

[Tom]

I have tested opendns and google dns but went back to my local shaw dns because the latancy was horrid on them.

I use my own caching bind instance. Shaw's DNS goes out, or gets glitchy WAY too often.

[Mr. Analog]

I have tested opendns and google dns but went back to my local shaw dns because the latancy was horrid on them.

I use my own caching bind instance. Shaw's DNS goes out, or gets glitchy WAY too often.

This is the second time now since I've been on the service that it's gone out (very annoying). Borked DNS when just one site goes down is not my first guess.

When it goes back to normal I may switch back.

[Tom]

I have tested opendns and google dns but went back to my local shaw dns because the latancy was horrid on them.

I use my own caching bind instance. Shaw's DNS goes out, or gets glitchy WAY too often.

This is the second time now since I've been on the service that it's gone out (very annoying). Borked DNS when just one site goes down is not my first guess.

When it goes back to normal I may switch back.

I guess it takes a whole lot of crazy to notice every single outage they have

[Lazybones]

I have tested opendns and google dns but went back to my local shaw dns because the latancy was horrid on them.

I use my own caching bind instance. Shaw's DNS goes out, or gets glitchy WAY too often.

Well that would be the best solution.. Nothing beats running your own DNS however it is a bit of a PITA to maintain for home use.. as it complicates things..

[Tom]

I have tested opendns and google dns but went back to my local shaw dns because the latancy was horrid on them.

I use my own caching bind instance. Shaw's DNS goes out, or gets glitchy WAY too often.

Well that would be the best solution.. Nothing beats running your own DNS however it is a bit of a PITA to maintain for home use.. as it complicates things..

I have far fewer problems with my own DNS than I do using other hosted DNS servers. In the past I've also setup some local domains, with local DynDNS support, so all of my machines would automagically get a registered host name in my DNS server. It's really pretty cool.

[Darren Dirt]

Okay, I resolved it by using Google Public DNS

For Tonnica's sake (who is likely having this problem as well) here's a quick "how to"
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

Here's irony for ya:

I just REMOVED my Google DNS -- because since the IP change, I couldn't "find" the RW domain anymore.

Weird eh?

I guess Shaw's not as bad as I thought it was, when I made the switch I coulda sworn I noticed a speed increase, now not so sure...




also, this:

I have tested google dns but went back to my local shaw dns because the latancy was horrid.