Re: VZ FiOS DNS issues:

[James Laszko <jamesl () mythostech com>]

On Jan 22, 2012, at 8:11 AM, "Jamie Bowden" <jamie () photon com> wrote:

> Any Verizon techs around today?  I don't know why you can't pass DNS traffic this morning, but it's the second time 
> in as many weeks as it has been an issue, and it's rather annoying (Google is the example, but the exact same failure 
> happens using any destination, on VZ's own or any other public DNS servers, phone support are of course, useless):

Have a look at:

http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-Internet/DNS-issues-in-SoCal/td-p/393781/page/11

Are you by chance in So Cal?  VZ has been having some serious pot holes on their information super highway of late.


Regards,


James Laszko
Mythos Technology Inc


> C:\Users\jamie>tracert -d 71.252.0.12
>
> Tracing route to 71.252.0.12 over a maximum of 30 hops
>
>  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.254
>  2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
>  3     8 ms     9 ms    13 ms  96.231.199.1
>  4    14 ms     9 ms     9 ms  130.81.183.118
>  5     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  130.81.151.232
>  6     9 ms     9 ms     *     130.81.20.19
>  7    11 ms     9 ms     9 ms  71.252.0.12
>
> Trace complete.
>
> C:\Users\jamie>nslookup www.google.com 71.252.0.12
> Server:  nsrest01.verizon.net
> Address:  71.252.0.12
>
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Request to nsrest01.verizon.net timed-out
>
> C:\Users\jamie>tracert -d 8.8.8.8
>
> Tracing route to 8.8.8.8 over a maximum of 30 hops
>
>  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.254
>  2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
>  3     7 ms     8 ms     9 ms  96.231.199.1
>  4     8 ms     9 ms     8 ms  130.81.183.118
>  5     9 ms    28 ms    10 ms  130.81.22.56
>  6     8 ms     9 ms     9 ms  152.63.36.237
>  7    20 ms    19 ms    19 ms  152.63.0.153
>  8    21 ms    18 ms    18 ms  152.63.21.73
>  9    41 ms    47 ms    49 ms  152.179.72.66
> 10    17 ms    18 ms    19 ms  209.85.255.68
> 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
> 13    22 ms    19 ms    19 ms  72.14.236.200
> 14    20 ms    31 ms    18 ms  216.239.49.145
> 15    18 ms    19 ms    19 ms  8.8.8.8
>
> Trace complete.
>
> C:\Users\jamie>nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8
> Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
> Address:  8.8.8.8
>
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> DNS request timed out.
>    timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Request to google-public-dns-a.google.com timed-out
>
> C:\Users\jamie>