Sonic.net DNS down?

[Guest]

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$ nslookup 
> server 208.201.224.11
Default server: 208.201.224.11
Address: 208.201.224.11#53
> sonic.net
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> server 8.8.8.8
Default server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
> sonic.net
Server:		8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	sonic.net
Address: 209.204.190.64
> 

[Guest]

Support says yes when I called. Swapped over to Google Public DNS for now.

[Etienne Le Sueur]

I can also confirm that I have trouble resolving with the Sonic DNS servers.

[Guest]

Any chance the MOTD will be updated?

[insane]

Seems so. 44 people on Hold with Sonic support according to the support web page atm. I posted the Google DNS work around in case anyone can even get to it. :\

-insane

[Guest]

It's down for me. I wish they updated their status page in a more timely fashion.

[gandc]

Not sure if this is related, but I'm seeing some weird behavior -- one of Sonic's nameservers resolves dealbook.nytimes.com, the other doesn't.

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> dig @208.201.224.11 dealbook.nytimes.com
....
;; ANSWER SECTION:
dealbook.nytimes.com.   71      IN      CNAME   dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com.

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> dig @208.201.224.33 dealbook.nytimes.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
dealbook.nytimes.com.   128     IN      CNAME   dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com.
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com. 53  IN      CNAME   blogs.gtm.nytimes.com.
blogs.gtm.nytimes.com.  90      IN      A       170.149.168.153

Any idea what's up with that?

[kgc]

It looks like some of our anti-dos systems had incorrectly flagged this domain as being used for attacks and was refusing queries for this and a couple of our good domains. We're reviewing the tools now and updating them to try and prevent them from happening again.

[msako]

I'm seeing periodic amber lights on my router. Existing streams continue at full speed but new ones cannot resolve host names. I assume this is some sort of DNS server issue because the layer 3|4 connection is staying up. nslookup is failing when it is in this state.