ebay not working ?

Tican · 22 May 2006 at 23:01

Stormrider said:
Just seems to be affecting high bandwidth sites
ie BBC, google, eBay, MSN

I know I know, but last time there were problems OcUK worked where nothing else would

Cobbydaler - Cableforum said:
These DNS's work well 212.135.1.36 195.40.1.36

altis - Cableforum said:
Re: [Merged]-Major connection issues!
If you're using Firefox then this should help:

Create a file called user.js in the folder
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxx.default

(where xxxxxxxx is some alpha/number sequence)

To the file add the lines:
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 100);

Then restart Firefox.

This will increase the number of cached addresses to 100 and their timeout to 1 hour. After the panic is over you can either delete user.js or set the expiry time back down to 360 (= 6 mins) or something similar.

Not tried them myself, no need off bed soon

Stormrider · 22 May 2006 at 23:37

BBC seems to be working now, eBay and google still a bit iffy.

philio16 · 22 May 2006 at 23:51

How can you suffer a suspected attack? You can suffer an actual attack....

Werewolf · 22 May 2006 at 23:57

DJ Binks said:
why is it, that whenever something like this happens, OcUK ALWAYS works?

Edit: on cableforums someone said

no idea if it will work

IIRC windows keeps a cache of DNS entries for a while after they have been used, and only refreshes them when they time out, or don't work.
Chances are if you're like me and checking on the forums on a regular basis it doesn't get a chance to time out

georges · 23 May 2006 at 00:01

Stormrider said:
BBC seems to be working now, eBay and google still a bit iffy.

My dad had this problem.. I had a problem with BBC and google.

We're on Tesco broadband ^_^

Tican · 23 May 2006 at 00:33

Werewolf said:
IIRC windows keeps a cache of DNS entries for a while after they have been used, and only refreshes them when they time out, or don't work.
Chances are if you're like me and checking on the forums on a regular basis it doesn't get a chance to time out

Ahh that'll be why

- Tis set to my homepage, am always browsing

georges said:
My dad had this problem.. I had a problem with BBC and google.

We're on Tesco broadband ^_^

Tesco Broadband = NTL iirc