Brief loss of access to pop3.idnet.com

Mohux_Jnr · Feb 13, 2009, 21:10:59

Forgive my ignorance, but how do you swap?. I work from home and over the last 2 days browsing has been impossible, for the last 4 hours it has continually crashed out at virtually every site I visit!!.

Is openDNS just a case of assigning the dns servers rather than the generic " get automatically from isp " ?, if so can somebody confirm the primary and secondary dns servers?.

Sebby · Feb 13, 2009, 21:16:48

Have a look here.

Mohux_Jnr · Feb 13, 2009, 21:23:14

aha...many thanks

Sebby · Feb 13, 2009, 21:24:13

NP.

Joel · Feb 13, 2009, 22:17:01

Im fed up now.

Download speeds so slow I cant watch youtube, and ping time to high heaven.

Im on the edge of a breakdown.

Thing is, I tried it at work and they are also pinging about 400 to london - BT having troubles?

Lance · Feb 13, 2009, 23:05:41

Hi Joel. It could possibly be a BT issue but there are too many uncertainties at the moment. Certainly downloads and pings are generally fine now. Any idea what your router stats are?

Sebby · Feb 14, 2009, 00:36:46

It could also be the DNS, which IDNet have confirmed is having trouble. Try OpenDNS and see if that improves things.

Aaron · Feb 14, 2009, 00:43:14

Can I use both IDNet and OpenDNS DNS servers? i.e. Primary DNS being IDNet and Secondary being OpenDNS. And does it look up DNS from secondary if the primary one fails to get an IP address of a website?

Sebby · Feb 14, 2009, 00:44:40

Yes, you can do exactly that.

Aaron · Feb 14, 2009, 00:55:56

Ok I've done that on my router now, but https://www.opendns.com/start still shows broken images but that might be a problem on their end with 404 images. Did IP renew on my desktop and got

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 212.69.36.3
208.67.222.222

which checks out good. I tried the signup feature on OpenDNS and it thinks I'm not using their servers though

Simon · Feb 14, 2009, 09:30:30

Sorry, I can't help with this, but I'm sure someone more technical than me will be out of their pit soon.

Rik · Feb 14, 2009, 10:11:40

Quote from: Aaron on Feb 14, 2009, 00:55:56
which checks out good. I tried the signup feature on OpenDNS and it thinks I'm not using their servers though

You may have to use both their servers Aaron, as if you arrive there through the IDNet server, it will think you're not using them.

Steve · Feb 14, 2009, 10:12:22

Quote from: Aaron on Feb 14, 2009, 00:55:56
Ok I've done that on my router now, but https://www.opendns.com/start still shows broken images but that might be a problem on their end with 404 images. Did IP renew on my desktop and got

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 212.69.36.3
208.67.222.222

which checks out good. I tried the signup feature on OpenDNS and it thinks I'm not using their servers though

As Rik said. I just put both Open dns server listing into the TCP/IPv4 properties of the network adaptor on the PC currently in use . Looks like you pick up idnet's first whilst its working with opendns as the fall back

Sebby · Feb 14, 2009, 14:31:31

You can check if you're using OpenDNS by going to http://www.opendns.com/welcome/.