Google public DNS - issues?

satanicguardian · 11 Jul 2013 at 10:11

Not sure if this is best place, but meh

Has anyone noticed that googles DNS servers are playing up today, it's affecting a lot of my customers and colleagues in other companies.

Seems to be causing a lot of problems! Has anyone else experienced a similar issue?

Narj · 11 Jul 2013 at 10:14

Yes, 8.8.8.8 in particular was broken last night and not resolving a load of stuff. I switched my primary to 4.2.2.1 (Verizon).

satanicguardian · 11 Jul 2013 at 10:31

I've just tried using 4.2.2.1 as well, doesn't seem to like it much, I made it primary on the router and set it manually on the adapter

Narj · 11 Jul 2013 at 10:35

satanicguardian said:
I've just tried using 4.2.2.1 as well, doesn't seem to like it much, I made it primary on the router and set it manually on the adapter

Really? works fine for me testing from my servers... Odd.

satanicguardian · 11 Jul 2013 at 10:37

Narj said:
Really? works fine for me testing from my servers... Odd.

It hasn't affected everywhere, I still have internet connection here at work, and I'm dialled into my home PC, it works fine

Narj · 11 Jul 2013 at 11:01

satanicguardian said:
It hasn't affected everywhere, I still have internet connection here at work, and I'm dialled into my home PC, it works fine

ipconfig /flushdns on the local machine having issues with the new settings? Just in case there's any weird results still in cache?

Wonder when it'll be sorted anyhow...

satanicguardian · 11 Jul 2013 at 11:28

Narj said:
ipconfig /flushdns on the local machine having issues with the new settings? Just in case there's any weird results still in cache?

Wonder when it'll be sorted anyhow...

Aye have done, still affecting some of my users in the office, yet some are online fine :\

satanicguardian · 11 Jul 2013 at 12:03

Ok it had resolved itself, now it's going balls up again - this is frustrating grrrr!

Any suggestions of a different DNS server I can try?

Rabtech · 12 Jul 2013 at 13:54

Set your primary to OpenDNS and your secondary to Google DNS instead. That way if one's down your system/router will use the other.

OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 or 208.67.220.220
Google DNS 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4

ci_newman · 12 Jul 2013 at 14:44

This did confuse me for a little while yesterday when I was trying to set up my new Internet connection at home

satanicguardian · 16 Jul 2013 at 09:35

I think it's all gone stable again now