[plug] iinet freezone

[Ian Kent]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 00:00 +0900, Niffum wrote:
> I was starting to think i was alone with the DNS problem.  I may be 
> incorrect in assuming this but based on what i have seen, when you 
> allocate IP's via DHCP for your lan and you allocate two DNS servers, 
> it appears to choose one of the servers at random... if it happened 
> to choose a dead DNS server, game over.  This is just an assumption.

And that's not usually the way the resolver works.
The resolver sends queries to each server and waits for responses.

> 
> What is funny is that i was going through my email and funny enough i 
> got an email dated today, the 8th of January which had this inside it:
> 
>          DNS
>          Customers in WA may briefly be unable to access web sites. 
> Affected customers will notice that pages
>          time out when browsing the web, or sites are unreachable.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:59 PM 8/01/2009, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 00:26 +0900, Niffum wrote:
> > >> Looks like i missed something... Here I was thinking that the 'free
> > > ...
> > >
> > > You might want to look closer at your setup - iinet dns etc all work
> > > fine other than rare glitches so you might have problems your side.
> >
> >I'd disagree; based on my anecdotal experience iinet DNS is a bit
> >dicky sometimes. I've had customers independently come to me and ask
> >for recommendations of other servers based on problems they've been
> >seeing. The symptoms are basically that random stuff intermittently
> >returns NXDOMAIN (iirc); as soon as you switch to Telstra, or Optus,
> >or even OpenDNS everything works fine.
> >
> >-Patrick
> >
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