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idburns
Posts: 23
Registered: ‎01-24-2009
Location: Gainesville, VA

DNS issues in Northern VA?

I woke up this morning, hopped on the web and I'm having serious DNS issues. Win7 Network and Sharing center showed that I was on my network but had no internet access. I switched from Google DNS servers to the FiOS DNS servers, that helped a little.  I now had an internet connection but some websites load, some don't and I can't connect to any online games.


gmail works fine

yahoo works fine

 

can't load msn.com

can't load cnn.com (or many other sites)

 

the anandtech forums (forums.anandtech.com) are really slow

the hardocp forums (hardforums.com) are really slow

My Steam connects but I can't connect to any online game (ie WoW, Rift, Black Ops, BF:BC2, etc)


I'm here in Northern Virginia on Verizon FiOS- I've had service for 2.5 years and never had an issue like this.


I've rebooted the router, power cycled it, bypassed the switch here in my home office, flushed the DNS cache on this computer, nothing seems to be helping.  This is affecting all computers in my house.


Is anyone else having issues?

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Copper Contributor
idburns
Posts: 23
Registered: ‎01-24-2009
Location: Gainesville, VA

Re: DNS issues in Northern VA?

Whatever was going on seems to have resolved itself after a few hours.

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TV - FiOS TV Extreme HD
Internet - FiOS Residential 25 Mbps/25 Mbps
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fibertechguru
Posts: 14
Registered: ‎05-19-2011

Re: DNS issues in Northern VA?

Try getting used to using a another DNS like OpenDNS as a backup, it really helps improves your surfing but also help if VZ has a DNS outage.

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spuun
Posts: 1
Registered: ‎06-11-2011
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Re: DNS issues in Northern VA?

same problem in Florida. i cannot log into the Rift game server or the web site, www.riftgame.com. a problem with verizon. i can access the web site on my other internet service provider. 

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Carni
Posts: 2
Registered: ‎06-11-2011
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Re: DNS issues in Northern VA?

Same problem in Hampton roads Va all computers in house have same issue.

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