404, Routing and Squirrels!

Desaan · Mar 26, 2011, 00:33:09

Since midnight, (coincidentally?) all pages outside the UK are 404'ing and those that are loading usually do so without loading pictures (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport as an example)

Anyone else having issues? Also lost connectivity to any form of online gaming including the PSN. (Even took me a while to post this, 404's)

sof2er · Mar 26, 2011, 00:34:23

Same here, getting kind of tired as this seems to be happening more and more often.

Athena · Mar 26, 2011, 00:34:44

Quote from: Desaan on Mar 26, 2011, 00:33:09
Since midnight, (coincidentally?) all pages outside the UK are 404'ing and those that are loading usually do so without loading pictures (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport as an example)

Anyone else having issues? Also lost connectivity to any form of online gaming including the PSN. (Even took me a while to post this, 404's)

Yep. Same here. I can get google but that's only because I use googles' DNS. I can get IP resolution in most cases, but not DNS resolution.

What broke?

Wivelrod · Mar 26, 2011, 00:38:17

I was playing Rift (EU Server) and downloading a game over STEAM when suddenly I lagged out of Rift, and my download stopped - but Ventirillo (UK server) continued to function. I could restart the download in STEAM, but I cannot browse a number of sites, and they do appear to be out side the UK, though BBC is also iffy in its response.

Guess I bugger of to bed and hope all is well in the light of day.

Aaron · Mar 26, 2011, 00:38:41

Yep having trouble accessing some sites, sourceforge for one.

silverblade · Mar 26, 2011, 00:40:54

This is getting annoying.

Is it a DNS issue? It doesn't seem like it because that wouldn't drop existing connections...

Frugal · Mar 26, 2011, 00:43:59

Ditto. Disconnected just after midnight and since then web access is pretty much impossible

Desaan · Mar 26, 2011, 00:49:11

Quote from: silverblade on Mar 26, 2011, 00:40:54
This is getting annoying.

Is it a DNS issue? It doesn't seem like it because that wouldn't drop existing connections...

Probably a routing issue, a switch has gone out somewhere and looks like there is no backup in place to reroute the bounced traffic. Which is my concern because this has been happening fairly frequently in the last few months, so if no re routing is taking place we have to wait 2-3 hours whilst somebody fixes it, which is totally unacceptable. Either that or we are getting bounced through a node that's getting hammered and we get no traffic throughput anyway.

HidYn · Mar 26, 2011, 00:50:34

Just confirming the issue aswell no steam access for me.. and i was just about to get into a few hour long Crysis 2 session =(

idnetbarry · Mar 26, 2011, 00:53:58

Same problem here

Been with Idnet since June 2006 mostly top class service but recently not good.

HidYn · Mar 26, 2011, 00:55:32

Quote from: idnetbarry on Mar 26, 2011, 00:53:58
Same problem here

Been with Idnet since June 2006 mostly top class service but recently not good.

I don't think its down to IDNet I'm a new customer but was with Zen prior to last Wednesday and started to have issues with them aswell...

Westy · Mar 26, 2011, 01:01:08

Can also confirm the same problem, which sucks. What is there to do now for the next couple of hours!? Was looking forward to a night of Starcraft 2

HidYn · Mar 26, 2011, 01:03:09

Quote from: Westy on Mar 26, 2011, 01:01:08
Can also confirm the same problem, which sucks. What is there to do now for the next couple of hours!? Was looking forward to a night of Starcraft 2

SC2 good choice man but yeah none of that either =/ Zerg FTW =D

Aaron · Mar 26, 2011, 01:06:29

a lot worse than I thought, I'm actually having to browse a lot of sites through google cache.

sparkler · Mar 26, 2011, 01:10:39

im having dns issues as well with both opendns and idnet dns servers but seems to be working now as youtue has just loaded

zappaDPJ · Mar 26, 2011, 01:13:07

I'm having the same issue.

Gary · Mar 26, 2011, 01:15:22

I could not even reach idnet from my mobile it said server not found, this is becoming far to regular

I really don't care whose fault it anymore but all I know is my neighbour is using the awful sky connect service but he keeps his service. It may be down to BT but its not hitting the bigger ISP's

HidYn · Mar 26, 2011, 01:22:28

Worked for 15 mins! Managed to get a quick game of Counter Strike Gun Game in now its dead again =(

Desaan · Mar 26, 2011, 01:43:01

Approaching 2hrs with no resolution. Why is it always such a poor response time? It's not like it's a major outage, I have friends on different ISP's on BT landlines who have no current issues.

silverblade · Mar 26, 2011, 01:46:21

The first place I check for any issues is:
http://www.idnet.net/support/status.jsp

...which claims there is currently a good service.

Presumably the status gets manually updated when a fault is acknowledged, but it would be nice to have some more realtime idea of what's going on without having to go visit a forum and hope it's not something at your end...

gazzthompson · Mar 26, 2011, 01:49:02

i just come home from a boring night out, all i want to do is go on the internet (which i pay £35 for) yet i cant) i dont care whos fault it is, im ***** off.

edit: norton DNS works. http://nortondns.com/

sparkler · Mar 26, 2011, 02:36:35

my internet seems to be fully functional now not a single resolve failure

Gary · Mar 26, 2011, 08:39:29

Do we know what caused this yet?

Simon_idnet · Mar 26, 2011, 09:12:47

BT had a problem in the Stepney Green Exchange which houses the 21CN Metronode that serves IDNet in Telehouse. The problem has been resolved but we do not currently have any further information as to what the problem was.
Simon

Gary · Mar 26, 2011, 09:14:22

Quote from: Simon_idnet on Mar 26, 2011, 09:12:47
BT had a problem in the Stepney Green Exchange which houses the 21CN Metronode that serves IDNet in Telehouse. The problem has been resolved but we do not currently have any further information as to what the problem was.
Simon

Cheers, Simon. Much appreciated