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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Is anyone else seeing issues with Level3’s DNS servers? We got an alert our mail servers were down but mail is flowing normally, if slowly. Trying to resolve our domain names against Google’s 8.8.8.8 and OpenDNS’s 208.67.222.222 servers seems fine but 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 is spotty at best, failing to resolve in most cases.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Testing <a href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com">www.amazon.com</a> yields the same results.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3B3838'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3B3838'>_________________________________________</span></u></b><span style='color:#3B3838'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3B3838'>Dann Schuler<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3B3838'>Network Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3B3838'>MCSA 2012, MCITP, MCTS, Security+, Server+<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:dschuler@ksrinc.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>dschuler@ksrinc.com</span></a> (315) 470-1350 x187<span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>