Are you sure its just DNS? Lately I;ve noticed lots of mini-outages of about 10 minutes... Up to two or three a day.
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 2:40 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OT: Telstra Cable DNS flaky? Hi, Now that Jim has a nice new cable connection I hope he is not plagued by DNS failures. I have noticed that periodically throughout the day today I cannot resolve host names. Web browsing hangs (cannot find server), email won't send (cannot find server) or can't be fetched, and my hourly weather graphs have failed at least once (Host name lookup failure). Often a single retry will fix things, but sometimes things will stall for minutes. I am on Paradise cable in St Albans, Chch. Anyone having similar problems? A