Foo - My DNS is acting up...

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RubenX
12-03-11, 02:40 AM
I changed internet providers and got great deal by upgrading old 10mbps to wooping 40mbps for the same price....but, DNS is acting up and about 30% of the time gives me a "server not found" error.

I thought it was the provider's servers acting up so I changed to google's public DNS servers (the 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4) but it does the exact same thing.

Is quite strage... refresh a page in foo and it works, open a post 2 seconds later and "cant find bikeforums...yada yada", refresh 2 seconds later and it works.

Any ideas?

AEO
12-03-11, 05:27 AM
/flushdns

clear history
somedood
12-03-11, 07:54 AM
Are you getting any packet loss? DNS is usually UDP so if you are getting packet loss the reply may never be heard. i.e. if you do:

ping google.com -t

and then ctrl+break after like 20 what percent of packets are lost?

RubenX
12-03-11, 11:57 AM
I had forgotten about those, silly me. There seemed to be a packet loss of 6%. I flushed dns and now have 0% packet loss. I'll browse a bit to see of problem continues or goes away.