On Tuesday 10 October 2006 14:57, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:49, you wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:40:18PM +1200, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Are you resolving from Telstra's DNS servers, or are you running your > > own DNS resolving from root data? > > > > -jim > > I am using the Telstra-provided IP addresses: > > primary 203.96.152.4 > secondary 203.96.152.12 > > Or rather, my PCs all have 192.168.2.1 as their DNS, which is the SMC > router, which is configured with Telstra's primary and secondary addresses > as shown. Yes, I'm getting the same symptoms here. Reversing the numbers so that 203.96.152.12 is the 'primary' helped somewhat.
HTH
