It's back! - was [plug] The world has disappeared

[Richard Meyer]

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                      Craig Ringer                                                                                                   
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                                                Subject:  Re: It's back! -  was [plug] The world has disappeared                     
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>> OK, in mid diagnostics, pings and tcpdumps alover the place,
>> everything started working perfectly all of a sudden, with no changes
>> (honestly!). I'm going to blame a temporary huccup in Westnet's DNS
>> unless anybody has a better idea.

>I didn't notice anything at the time all this was written. Then again, I
>use more than one ISP's DNS servers to avoid this sort of problem. I
>learned to do so for survival (well, useable net connection) purposes
>during my brief stay on Telstra cable a couple of years ago. After all,
>Telstra's DNS was down as much as up, so I had to find somebody else's.

At about 20h30 to 21h30, I was having trouble on westnet, logging onto the
mail server mail.westnet.com.au. Pings to that server or to westnet.com.au
didn't work either. OTOH, I was able to download web pages from .za domains
without problems. So maybe we were suffering from dns problems. Also just
came right suddenly.

Regards
RichardM