DNS issues in SoCal

[frnkblk]

There's another thread in this forum about Craigslist and someone reported today, too, that they could access Craiglist.

Do you know if your public IP address changed within the last 20 days?  Can you access these sites, too (they have been noted by some as problematic)

• http://store.steampowered.com
• http://www.bankofamerica.com 
• http://www.alaskaair.com
• http://www.wpcentral.com
• http://www.sdccu.org
• http://www.sdccu.net
• http://www.mysonicwall.com
• http://idp.mrmls.safemls.net/idp/Authn/UserPassword

[mrballcb]

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@GENOS wrote:

I live in Redlands and have had the problem not being able to access craigslist.  Had done all the troubleshooting that Microsoft had available.  Yesterday, I was pretty much on the phone all day off and on with Verizon Tech.

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Do you have any issues accessing the San Diego Credit Union bank website login page?  That seems to be a constant problem for people experiencing this issue.  The main page was ok, it was the login page which had the problem.  I honestly do not recall if craigslist was a problem for me on the day I had my issue (2 weeks ago).

It does kind of sound like your issue was related to your MS update and not necessarily the VZ issue we saw.  I suggest you run, if you haven't already, CCleaner and Spybot Search & Destroy to make sure that there isn't anything in your system that might be lingering from an old virus/spyware/adware infestation (if you've ever had any).

...Todd

[PJL]

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@frnkblk wrote:

There's another thread in this forum about Craigslist and someone reported today, too, that they could access Craiglist.

Do you know if your public IP address changed within the last 20 days?  Can you access these sites, too (they have been noted by some as problematic)...

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My public IP address has not changed in probably a year.  I am now able to access all of these site, and today things appear fairly "normal."  I had a voicemail from Verizon telling me they've worked the issue.  We'll see how it holds out.

[frnkblk]

That's good news for the Verizon FiOS subs in SoCal if that's the case.  Hopefully we'll learn what the RFF (reason for failure) was.

[Scottage]

Is this still being worked on? It's definitely still a serious problem for me. This morning I used a bookmark testing extension to find out which of my bookmarked pages were failing to connect in the same way, and then tested each of them myself to make sure it was this same problem, and not a legitimate broken web page or other issue.

Cleared browser cache, cookies, and rebooted the router before starting.
All of the sites listed below will give the error: "The server at [address] is taking too long to respond."
In every case I can not get to it via my Verizon FiOS connection.
I can get to each of these via my phone's non-Verizon internet connection, without problem.
downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports all of the sites below are up and running as well during my tests.

costco.com
albertsons.com
club.nintendo.com
portforward.com
eternalmoonwalk.com
nfggames.com
foodily.com
thinkwithportals.com
runicgames.com
tcrf.net
wiki.teamfortress.com

Previously I was unable to get to steampowered.com, but could get to steamcommunity.com
After getting a new IP address, I'm able to get to steampowered.com but not steamcommunity.com

My wife and I both do at least some of our work from home. By what appears to be pure luck none of the websites we need to access for work have been blocked so far, but if that does happen we would be in some serious trouble. We need this issue to be resolved, and soon. It's already been nearly a month so far, our entire time as a Verizon customer.

[frnkblk]

@PJL: Can you test Scottage's list?

[Ftracy3]

I've been having issues for two weeks now. Started with access to Steam forums and/or their store. Reset the router, released the IPaddress  and powered everything down for a few hours finally cleared things up. Problem came back  later and switched to OpenDNS and I thought that had fixed it.

Now today i can't access speedtest.net or speakeasy.net. Can ping them both. Have flushed dns through ipconfig, rebooted..I may try the IP release, power off router for a few hours again. Verizon, what's going on? I can access these sites from work or through my phone but not through Verizon.

[Scottage]

Actually, one correction. I was able to get to steamcommunity.com and steampowered.com both as late as yesterday. So the fact that I can suddenly not get to steamcommunity.com today seems to indicate that this problem seems to be getting worse, not better, and is still spreading.

EDIT 1: Also, testing by using several free proxies (tested by way of proxy.org), I'm able to visit these same sites on the same computer/connection that fails when not using the proxy. But of course that's not a valid fix, just a test.

EDIT 2: As for DNS, I've tried both auto-assigned DNS and another server (opendns.com) and the issue remains either way.

[Ftracy3]

Same problem here now ...steamcommunity.com unavailable (steampowered.com is ok for now). can get there on my phone and at work, not through fios.

[Martymcfli]

Been having the same issue for almost two days. I just swapped the default Verizon DNS to Google's DNS. Fixed the issues for me.