Verizon Commercial FIOS, DNS problem with Covad DSL

[John Abreau]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Tom Metro <blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Every once in a while my DNS stops working for hours at a time. Looking
> into it I find that I can do queries via TCP, but normal UDP queries
> result in a server timeout. This is true no matter what DNS client I use
> and no matter what DNS server I target out on the net.

What happens when you run a DNS server internally? Does it timeout
when trying to reach the root nameservers or the top-level domain servers?


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