[outages] Network Solutions DNS not resolving on Comcast or CenturyLink networks

[Chris Swingler]

Also reporting the same, we saw this get really bad a little before 2:00 AM America/Chicago, and recover around 4:20. 


> On Nov 24, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:09:14AM +0000,
> Dylan Ebner via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote 
> a message of 537 lines which said:
> 
>> networksolutions.com also does not resolve on comcast or CL dns
>> servers. It does resolve on google dns servers but it is not
>> accessable.
> 
> This domain name has three name servers but all of them have the same
> IP address!
> 
> % check-soa -i networksolutions.com
> ns1.netsol.com.
>    209.17.114.135: OK: 2014103001 (19 ms)
> ns2.netsol.com.
>    209.17.114.135: OK: 2014103001 (20 ms)
> ns3.netsol.com.
>    209.17.114.135: OK: 2014103001 (20 ms)
> 
> So, any IP problem (routing, filtering, whatever) will take them down
> at the same time. 
> 
> What to add? It is Network Solutions. The gods themselves cannot make
> them professionnal.
> 
>> COMCAST DNS SERVERS: DOES NOT WORK
>>> server 75.75.76.76
>> Default Server:  cdns02.comcast.net<http://cdns02.comcast.net/>
>> Address:  75.75.76.76
> 
> By the way, nslookup is a poor DNS debugging tool.
> 
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