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Sympatico DNS is Messed Up

If you’re not reading this from a Sympatico DSL account, go about your merry-way. GO!

/waits

Ok, now that those freaks are gone we can get down to business. Doesn’t Rogers suck ass? :-) “I THOUGHT YOU LEFT ROGERS BOY!”

Anyhow, if you’re getting a lot of “Page cannot be loaded” errors when you’re browsing around, don’t let Sympatico convince you its a problem with your setup. It’s totally their DNS server’s problem. I’ve heard some rumours that they’re fighting a DoS attack so maybe that’s the root cause, but regardless, DNS lookups are failing all the time.

To fix the problem, you might want to consider using a secondary DNS server. You can add it in your O/S settings or via your router. The following open DNS servers work well for me: 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.2.3. Their ping might not be quite as low, but it’s a lot better than those damn error pages :-) Please post if you have any better ones. Just watch out that you don’t set your DNS server to a data-miner or something ;-)

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 3rd, 2005 at 11:18 pm and is filed under Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Sympatico DNS is Messed Up”

  1. Jason Nussbaum says:
    October 11, 2005 at 8:35 pm

    You gonna recant this today? :D

  2. Jonathan says:
    October 11, 2005 at 11:01 pm

    It’s still a problem, just not the particular problem you’re referring to ;-)

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