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Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:16 pm
by 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
> 

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:20 pm
by Guest
Support says yes when I called. Swapped over to Google Public DNS for now.

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:21 pm
by Etienne Le Sueur
I can also confirm that I have trouble resolving with the Sonic DNS servers.

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:23 pm
by Guest
Any chance the MOTD will be updated?

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:32 pm
by 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

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:45 pm
by Guest
It's down for me. I wish they updated their status page in a more timely fashion.

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:24 pm
by 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?

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 3:01 pm
by 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.

Re: Sonic.net DNS down?

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:02 pm
by 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.