Over the last few days, I haven’t been able to access certain sites, such as Sheboygan Shenanigans and the #dontgo Twitter feed. What those sites have in common are domain servers from domaincontrol.com (specifically the NS47 and NS48 servers). The default RoadRunnerWI DNS servers lost connectivity with them sometime on July 31.
After a pair of web chat sessions, and a lengthy phone call with customer service, I finally got a fix from RR. If you are unable to access those sites (or others that have domain servers on ns47.domaincontrol.com/ns48.domaincontrol.com), you need to change your DNS servers manually to the following:
Primary – 4.2.2.2
Secondary – 4.2.2.3
Hopefully RoadRunner will have a more-permanent fix for their default DNS servers soon, now that they know something is hosed with them.
I have to thank silent E for finally waking me up out of my stupor; until he posted the early edition of this morning’s Scramble, I had assumed that Jeni’s site simply went dark.
Revisions/extensions (9:06 pm 8/4/2008) – Jim Lynch reports that he is unable to get to Call Congress Back down in Florida. Houston, we have a problem.
Jeni’s site simply went dark.
GASP! no!! Lol…don’t want that to happen! Thanks much for the update, Steve…