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[mcmike]

Internet Molasses & Comcast DNS outage: the fix

The other night Comcast's domain name servers went down. DNS servers take the http web address (URL) that you want and convert it to the numeric ip address. I suspect the internet was slowed for many people, not just comcast HSI users.

If you have the ip address you can bypass this kind of mess.
I tried to get to stockcharts.com and it was like 1996 2400baud modem time.

This site will help you find the ip addresses for sites you need/frequent and can't afford to be without.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

If you type in www.stockcharts.com in the upper right window that says DNS lookup you get 66.150.15.92
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You are not bound by your host's (e.e.Comcasts's) DNS servers:
http://support.open-rsc.org/windows/2000/

Someone I was chatting with gave me the link to other DNS servers. One of the clues that I did not pick up on was that live chat was fine as well as one of the gamesites I frequent.

You can bypass the "obtain DNS server address automatically" and put in the name of 2 other DNS servers that are not those belonging to your host provider.

You keep your credit card numbers written somewhere...you might want to keep a file of ip addresses. Better safe than sorry.

P.S. I am no techie, have no clue what I've said, and am not responsible if you mess up your settings. Just did a little searching to protect myself. Other people may have better fixes than what I have outlined.

that dnsstuff site does look like it's worth exploring further. Computer internet stuff is so like magic that you just expect it to run.

When I slowed down the other day I thought I had been attacked and ran McAfee, rebooted, reset the cable modem...called Comcast 3x to get support only to find out it wasn't me. What a time waste.

If you are a Comcast HSI person you might want to put this link in a folder in your favorites file:
https://www.comcast.com/Support/Corp1/FAQ/FaqDetail_2268.html

ok good luck all