RE: FN-FORUM: DNS dropping

date posted 27th June 2003 10:33

Yes it is BT but we're not using their DNS as it just doesn't function at
all reliably.
The odd thing is that the network here runs all the time and just one
machine periodically drops the DNS settings. The others just keep on running
with no problems or downtime unless BT muck up the exchange.

The other network is heading for critical meltdown with dropped DNS. It
won't hold for more than two minutes at a time. Yeuch!

I'm wondering if I should redo the forward DNS on each of the affected
machines.

Cheers

Ali

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Pete Croft
Sent: 27 June 2003 10:29
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: DNS dropping


Ali Turner wrote:

> It may be that I'm not fully awake yet but I can't work this one out.
> The DNS on an internet connection periodically won't resolve.
> The connection has not been dropped as other machines on the network
connect
> fine.
> The only way to get it back again seems to be swap the primary & secondary
> DNS servers around and reboot.

> Does anyone have any idea as to what might be causing this?

Not using BT BrokenWorld ADSL by any chance? They've been having a
mess of problems since yesterday. One of my clients now has their
connection back (24 hours later) but I'm still getting batches of
error messages from the mail server which imply that about once or
twice over a half our period DNS is just disappearing, even though the
line is good.

I just pointed out that it served them right for going with BT when I
told them not too ;)

Cheers,

Pete
--
Peter Croft
PC Associates


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