DNS problems? (northerntel sympatico users)

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:39 pm

Just wondering if any of you are getting lot of DNS issues lately. It seems every now and then I can't resolve any domain names. But not sure if it's at my end or not.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:03 am

hmm well ive bin getting DNAS errors but may be the same thing

DNAS is for my ps2

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:10 pm

hmm don't know about ps2 but maybe it is related...

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Murray · Post by **Murray** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:20 pm

Lets not diss Sympatico now ... they are the best internet in Timmins you know ... *chuckles*

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:23 pm

Well they're practically the only Internet in Timmins LOL besides cable.

But hey, it beats dialup. If you run a seperate mail, smtp and dns server to not use sympatico's, then you're all set unless the whole connection goes down.

Actually they usually are pretty good, but I find in the past few months they go down sometimes...

I can't really switch, since well, my mom works for them.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:21 pm

It's not just you. Sympatico has been known for being unreliable sometimes. I mean, I've been getting fed up as well. I have been getting really slow transfer rates (And this time, I can't blame my wireless). I know last year my whole Internet froze for almost 2 days (Like, in december when it was BRUTALLY cold and we had 5 consecutive snowdays (Yet I had to go to co-op, what a drag). But ya, I have seen Sympatico get slow, and just get so slow that you can't do anything online (Which sucks if you're playing a game such as Ultima and are fighting a dragon. You log back in as a ghost

).

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:00 am

was down almost all night lol

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:53 pm

I noticed some of the same issues as the rest of you, (Yeah, I'm a Sympatico DSL User in Timmisn as well)... here's an excerpt from the only e-mail I've recieved from them in the past 6 months:

Recieved Sept 17th, 2004
Subject: Increased Internet Speed

Valued Customer:

NorthernTel would like to inform you of a recent service improvement. Now NorthernTel's High Speed Internet service can provide download speeds of up to 5 Megabits Per Second (Mbps). There is no additional charge for this improvement in speed.

For those customers not currently subscribed to NorthernTel's High Speed Internet service, if you order it before October 2, 2004, you get one month free Internet service!
Remember - NorthernTel's Valu-Add Bundles provide great monthly discounts if you subscribe to a package of eligible services.

Isn't that great? I've noticed some speed improvement, but what good is it if I can't access anything? I'm finding that using Firefox versus IE sometimes helps for web browsing (though I believe you're using Mozilla anyway, right Red?).

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:32 pm

Yeah I'm using mozilla. Once I get connected I get decent speed, but resolving is SLOW. And I still can't figure out how to setup a caching DNS server that actually writes the records to disk, right no wit stores it in memoy, so after it gets full it has to refetch the DNS info again from the root servers, which are slow given that all the big ISPs and DNs servers (and people like me) access them. I bet they went and put a 5 meg line for the DNS server and they think that will improve internet speed. LOL

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:34 pm

Here we go again

If my mom did not work for them I'd switch to cable right now... it's pretty sad that they can't even keep a working DNS server. like common, it's one of those things you set it up and you don't have to do much to it. There's no reason for it to go down so often.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:04 pm

Has anyone called tech support about this? I called about a week ago and they opened a ticket but I never got a call back.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:43 pm

tech support sux most of the time ... thay just try to get rid of ya lol altho you do get the odd one that really truely trys to help but its rare

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:43 pm

Ya. It's pretty sad how they are down so much. I mean, how are you even supposed to get entertainment? I mean, you pay a good amount for their service and they don't pull through

. I have considered going to cable Internet but it took me 6 months to convince my parents to go to high speed from dial-up (This will probably take me a couple of years or a good sum of cash to back up). Oh well, as long as it can support my internet gaming and my downloads for at least a couple of hours, I'll be happy. But when it goes down, beware

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:17 am

cable yuk!! i had cable and it sux so much .... i donno what kinda deal i had but 2 or 3 days tops of awsome internet then i would hit my limit of bandwith and it would slow to dial up speed for the rest of the month

... 2 days one time and got caped i got pissed watching kAzAa download at 10 kb's a sec n if i had 2 downloads going it would cut in half 5 kb's each but would never go over 10 kb's total (reason i got rid of cable)

BUT if you can afford to get unlimited bandwith then it would rule

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:17 am

Yeah the problem with cable is the cap... I would not be able to handle that. I don't have a way of measuring because of the integer limit in all measuring programs but I use at least a few GB per day, maybe 100GB on a good day. I flooded my drive multiple times with usless data. I go download-happy on kazaa and double click everyone... one of them is bound to work.

Now I'm sick so it better not go down.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:29 am

Sick eh? We were wondering why you weren't in class

. We figured you were skipping

. Haha, anyways, sympatico has been known to GO DOWN when you DON'T want it to. The irony of the ISP.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:54 am

Yeah. So I did not miss the bus, I just did not take it.

This morning I got up then my eyes and ears just shut down on me it was really weird, and I was all dizzy. So my mom told me to just stay home and I was thinking the same. Now I'm a bit better butmy ears are so blocked it feels like someone shoved baking soda and vinager in there.

So far I can resolve domains so that's a good sign.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:12 pm

I just called tech support. Ended up being ont he line with someone in pakistan and I could not understand him, but he said I had like 92 connections but yet I had no network-related programs open.

No virus... that I know of. Kind of odd really.

But he said there's a limit of 100 connections at once, so if I in fact had all those connections then it's the limit that was stoping me. This explains why P2P sucks so much for me then. That involves lot of connections.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:24 pm

ya, no kidding. Tech support can be a pain.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:09 pm

It sucks that they have a 100 connection limit though, I never knew that... so us sympatico users can easly fall victim of evil dos attacks. All it really takes is someone to request any possible open port 100 times in a small time frame. Easy to do. Wether they do something bad to the port or not does not even matter. Just the fact that they have 100 connections.

But this has pushed me to look into getting a better hardware firewall solution, so I can keep track of what goes in and out of the network, since with my cheap linksys router I have no control at all over that.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:14 pm

SHHHH! Don't give people ideas. There's alot of hacks out there. Ya, but I get your point. DOS can be lethal in the wrong hands

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:41 pm

Right now it's doing it on and off again, but it seems to be the net that goes down and not just DNS this time. Anyone else having problems?

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:47 pm

Today? I haven't been having any problems today **knocks on Wood**. Although, with sympatico, you never know.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:48 pm

Turns out it was my router though, I think that router is ready to go, since it's not the first time this happends, but since ntl has been down allot I just blamed it on them first this time.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:25 pm

LOL. Why make routers when they die in a year or two? They should really make them sturdier.

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