Nildram users..

doofer · 11 Jan 2007 at 12:34

I'm having weird problems with Nilly it's like the DNS servers go nuts for a few minutes at a time, web-pages won't load/ping but others are fine (I'll lose bbc news and ocuk will be fine for example), give it 10 or so minutes and everything is back to normal. A slightly worse but rare occurence is the router is connected fine and dandy, but PC will not connect to anything, several router resets usually required to sort this out.

Can't quite work out if there's anything my end causing it, so if anyone else is experiencing this frustrating problem please let me know! Nilly used to be so good before it got taken over

doofer · 12 Jan 2007 at 18:03

No-one having these problems?

jamjar · 12 Jan 2007 at 18:07

yes

doofer said:
No-one having these problems?

Hi there yes i have had a few days of slow service pages locking up ,seems slightly better today ,might be the gales we have had ?

Jabbs · 12 Jan 2007 at 18:11

Happens regular to me this on Nildram hence moving from them to anew service next week.

jamjar · 12 Jan 2007 at 18:14

Jabbs said:
Happens regular to me this on Nildram hence moving from them to anew service next week.

Right any ideas who ? :rolleyes:

Vai · 12 Jan 2007 at 18:30

This started a while ago, thought they would have fixed it by now. I recommend using the OpenDNS servers instead of Nildrams, will stop the problems

Jabbs · 12 Jan 2007 at 20:09

I use an open dns server and have tried nildram's but no change, am in the progress of migrating too UKFSN atm, will be on them next Thursday if they are any good is another thing but they are rated no1 here http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php

R4z0r · 12 Jan 2007 at 21:02

A few people seem to have this issue. You could try using Nildram's old DNS servers (195.112.4.4 and 195.112.4.7) or perhaps try OpenDNS.

alle · 12 Jan 2007 at 22:19

...Had this problem for months. Got a new router and that seemed to cure it!

tolien · 12 Jan 2007 at 22:26

It's probably caching DNS results, so the effect becomes less pronounced.

If you can be bothered, there's probably a simple caching DNS server option for Windows over and above what's there (there's BIND for Linux and Windows, but it might be a bit heavy for what you're after) which would probably have the same effect. In all honesty if an ISP can't get DNS right it hardly inspires confidence...

doofer · 12 Jan 2007 at 23:53

I'll give OpenDNS a go, thanks guys!

jamjar · 13 Jan 2007 at 00:43

doofer said:
I'll give OpenDNS a go, thanks guys!

How do i get open DNS ?? :confused:

doofer · 13 Jan 2007 at 08:44

jamjar said:
How do i get open DNS ??

I had no idea what it was either

But I Googled it and went here:

http://www.opendns.com

Followed the simple instructions and job's a good 'un hopefully

NathanE · 13 Jan 2007 at 10:35

I use the Tiscali name servers now. Given up with Nildram's offering. They're crap. Half the time they are down.

jamjar · 13 Jan 2007 at 11:56

seems weird

R4z0r said:
A few people seem to have this issue. You could try using Nildram's old DNS servers (195.112.4.4 and 195.112.4.7) or perhaps try OpenDNS.

That seems weird ,why would there old DNS Servers be better ? thought the way forward would be to develop newer and better things . :confused:

NathanE · 13 Jan 2007 at 12:47

I remember back in Nildram's hey-days they only actually had one DNS server. It just had two IP addresses. I'm sure there's loads of ISPs that do that trick.

R4z0r · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:37

jamjar said:
That seems weird ,why would there old DNS Servers be better ? thought the way forward would be to develop newer and better things .

Because less people know about those servers so they don't have the same load ...