Comcast DNS Outages More Severe than Previously Thought

In: smp

14 Apr 2005

Now, I never even heard about this Comcast outage until this morning. [here]

One reason that I likely didn’t notice it is that I run my own caching name servers on my home network. I do this because I have never trusted any provider’s overworked name servers (goes back to the history of the industry I work in; more on that some other time).

This is still a fairly crippling outage. Surely there is some redundancy in the Comcast name server infrastructure…please?

There is a list of possible workarounds to this problem linked from here.

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  • We're coming up to hosting almost 200 sites, and my 'boss' is thinking we should change again! I don't think this is going to help the problem.



    I find it impossible to believe such a large ISP can have so many problems with such an essential service.


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