Web Hostig Problem

[Christopher Browne]

On 7/7/07, Allen Taylor <tlug-G8usDCtqe957Ar2qsurDTA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:17:18AM -0400, John McGregor wrote:
> > Aaron Vegh wrote:
> > > For what it's worth, my current Rogers IP is 99.247.12.47.
> > > ...
> > > In fact, through this whole thread I've never seen downtime on this
> > > site. In fact, it loads surprisingly fast.
> > That's interesting and something that I will pass on to Rogers tech
> > department since my Rogers IP is 74.103.40.129 and I can't access the
> > site. The last time I had access was Thurs. evening and then only for
> > about two hours. I'm beginning to wonder if they have some
> > mis-configured equipment upstream of me that they don't know (care) about.
>
> One of the many reasons I dropped Rogers 3 years ago for my home/office
> access was the constant downtime (from minutes to hours) and
> mis-configuration of their DNS servers. They also tend to cache DNS info
> for up to 48 hours, no matter what the root DNS says about refresh
> times.
>
> I'm much happier now on Teksavvy.

Isn't this more an argument for pointing one of your resolver entries
to [someone else]?

Admittedly, if they're not very competent, that's good reason to look
elsewhere, but I don't think you're particularly forced to use their
DNS cacheing...

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