Comcast down, Vonage UP?????!!

Posts: 85 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jan 30, 2005 Posts: 85

I know what you're gonna say..it's my LINKSYS..but tonight I was timing out when going to any web-site or checking mail...I called comcast and at first got a service outage message...then it's been busy all night...NOW just a message saying we are not taking calls due to high volume...bla..bla....BUT GET THIS...MY voip works...the vonage web-site works, and THIS site works...I CANT FIGURE IT!!
Any thoughts?

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 12

My Comcast service is down too in Alexandria, VA. But my Vonage is also working.

Very weird and annoying...

Posts: 1424 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject:

Comcast is suffering from a nationwide DNS failure. It seems to be working for me now, but has been unreliable.

If necessary you can hardcode your DNS server to 4.2.2.2

Posts: 85 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jan 30, 2005 Posts: 85

So I'm assuming the DNS problems don't interfere with VOIP, but why is this & the official VOnage sites the only ones I can access??

Posts: 2135 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject:

gagoots wrote:

So I'm assuming the DNS problems don't interfere with VOIP, but why is this & the official VOnage sites the only ones I can access??

I can give you an official "I have no clue". Our servers are located 1500 miles from vonage.com's

Posts: 1424 · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject:

It is unlikely the adapters would need to do much name resolution in normal operation. I wouldn't recommend rebooting it however.

You may have this site's and Vonage's site IP address cached on your machine. The DNS servers, as far as I could tell, were flaky and not down completely.

I got my information from the Comcast forums. I have not seen an official announcement from Comcast.

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 12

Moving along quite nicely now.

Posts: 23 · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:31 am Post subject:

Had the same problem in New England, itis nice that Vonage does not rely on DNS (in this case anyway).

Posts: 72 · Full Forum Member Joined: Mar 08, 2005 Posts: 72

Still flaky Friday morning. Some sites are accessible and other are not. Comcast must still be working out DNS issues.

Posts: 134 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 134

Very odd... I have Metrocast, a regional cable company, and I also experienced the same kind of situation last night. The only difference was it was at 1AM or 1:30AM. Vonage worked, but nothing else would (web sites). Maybe it was just coincidence, but strange nonetheless.