DSL updates
Feb. 6th, 2006 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheedespite some of the hand-waving of the last post on this subject, I think I have pinpointed the problem with the DSL. The modem is flaky in a very specific way -- it's got a bad DNS cache that sometimes returns 1.0.0.0 when it should punt to its own upstream DNS. whatever web pages happen to receive a 1.0.0.0 DN response then time out.
This is particularly bad on LJ, because every LJ user now is on their own domain, so the DNS gets a lot of work.
I fixed it (temporarily) by updating the DNS entry in my own system by hand to point to the upstream QWest DNS (not 192.168.0.1) and everything seems to work now. (update except both of us use laptops, so that gets reset to be wrong all the time.)
But the modem (Actiontec GT701-WG DSL Modem with wireless gateway) has a flaky DNS cache and that has been all of the problem. Gotcha!
Now, to fix....
This is particularly bad on LJ, because every LJ user now is on their own domain, so the DNS gets a lot of work.
I fixed it (temporarily) by updating the DNS entry in my own system by hand to point to the upstream QWest DNS (not 192.168.0.1) and everything seems to work now. (update except both of us use laptops, so that gets reset to be wrong all the time.)
But the modem (Actiontec GT701-WG DSL Modem with wireless gateway) has a flaky DNS cache and that has been all of the problem. Gotcha!
Now, to fix....
