New Eircom Outage & DNS errors- 2nd September Only place to post

shotgun

Looks like a DNS problem - getting intermittent ping timeouts on both DNS servers listed on the Netopia router.

Once you get to the site you want it appears to work fine

irishtoffee

Eircom is a disgrace once again they are letting customers down.

Trevor451

Changed to open dns and its working fine now thanks . Serves eircom right for blocking tpb :rolleyes:

Quality

thanks guys!!

Was getting sick of this, broadband has been very slow over last few days as well, Hopefully this will sort it out too!

irishtoffee

Trevor451 wrote: »

Changed to open dns and its working fine now thanks . Serves eircom right for blocking tpb :rolleyes:

Forgive my ignorence but what does open dns mean? Is it a risk to computer? Thanks.

scorpion05

thanks for the open DNS addresses. back online now. are eircom blaming the russians again

guil

douglasman wrote: »

bring up a command prompt and type

telnet 192.168.1.254

Login as Admin

Then type

show dsl all

report back what that gives, it will include the level of interleaving eircom have set on your line. This can then be altered by eircom.

how does this look

ADSL Line State: Up
ADSL Startup Attempts: 1
ADSL Modulation: DMT
ADSL Data Path: Interleave
CO vendor: BDCM
Datapump Version: DSP 7.0.4.0, HAL 7.0.1.0

Downstream

---

SNR Margin: 10.00
Line Attenuation: 23.00
Output Power: 9.36
Errored Seconds: 0
Loss of Signal: 0
Loss of Frame: 0
CRC Errors: 1
Data Rate: 7168

upstream

SNR Margin: 19.00 dB
Line Attenuation: 13.00 dB
Output Power: 0.00 dB
Errored Seconds: 0
Loss of Signal: 1
Loss of Frame: 0
CRC Errors: 1
Data Rate 384

Trevor451

Forgive my ignorence but what does open dns mean? Is it a risk to computer? Thanks.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055608998&page=29

almostnever

Same here. It's getting very frustrating now.

irishtoffee

Trevor451 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055608998&page=29

You are a star thank you.

BlackWizard

The last few days and possibly more, weeks even, the service has been terrible. Espeically here in palmerstown.

And I'm not just talking about peak times. It is around 11pm even and Im still working at 1/5 the speed I should be.

BlackWizard

Connection Speed 6944 kbps 672 kbps
Line Attenuation 19 db 6.5 db
Noise Margin 13 db 13 db

I'd be lucky if I was getting 1/7th of that right now. Its been like that for days. Not just at peaks hours.

Im with BT too. But neighbors on Eircom are suffering in the same way.

r_obric

i changed to open dns a while ago and it was fine, but now its ****e again, any ideas?

Star Bingo

ffs.. how many times i have changed back to default DNS only to get burned again. stick w/ OpenDNS

Bill Andrex

Eircom are a joke is right. Their DNS is a mess and unable to resolve any addresses. The technically savvy are lucky because they are able to use Open DNS to access the Internet.

I think its time to ring up Eircom and ask for a refund because I am paying for a service and I'm not getting it. :mad: If I don't get any customer service from them I'm gonna put on my boots and walk.

I don't care if they are having technical issues, its not my problem! I'd suggest that anyone who is not under contract from Eircom leaves and says goodbye to the misery!

Mc Love

I am getting 500 - internal server error on a site i can access main page, send pm's but cant access any of the threads even though other posters can

Cant access live mail or book of faces even with DNS change

Crazypaddy

"LIVE A RICHER LIFE" by not getting ripped off by Eicoms crappy DNS (Chorus Magnet digiweb NTL BT here we come #eircomfail #eircom #fail

And then we will bully them into proper rates for the slow speeds they offer us

jor el

Small thread merged with big thread.

_ZeeK_

their dns servers have probably been hacked by some international pirates.

that'll teach the c**ts to censor our internet.

bogman

Changed my DNS settings..........worked a treat.............Outlook Express email not working so changed account settings

Type webmail.eircom.net into the Incoming mail Server and type mail1.eircom.net into the Outgoing mail (SMTP) Server fields.

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/&/WEBCGI.EXE/,/

worked right off

jor el

This is now the only place to post about eircom's outages and DNS issues. The other threads are closed to new posts.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055663046
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055671706
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055591103
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055671561
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055608998

This thread will be stickied, and the title has been modified so all can see what it's about.

Crazypaddy

Its not right to prase it this way but Eircom has done a great deal this week in sliting its corporate wrists --- It is flat out encouraging us to leave ---

1. Embarrassing Ireland on the international front by ruining hopes of lasting net nutrallity. :mad:
2. Providing one of the worst DNS servers in the world and expecting us to pay for it.:eek:

They don't care about us why should we care if they go into the dumpster and get liqudated --- someone buy Eircom for 1cent and give its customers 1st world broadband.

concubar

Thanks , changed the dns setting , all is well again..:D


( pity i didnt find this out before system restore, 1 hour at leaset pulling out my hair )

eigrod

Was on RTE Radio News there at midnight about an outage in Eircom's internet services. Eircom say it was between 6.30 and 8.00 pm (yeah right !) and intermittently since. Said it may not necessarily be down to anything malicious and may be down to equipment failure.

the_syco

_ZeeK_ wrote: »

their dns servers have probably been hacked by some international pirates.

that'll teach the c**ts to censor our internet.

It'd be loltastic, if it didn't suck so bad. Eircom blocked TPB as it didn't have enough money to fight it, and the customers suffer. The hackers cause Eircom to be f**ked, which again makes the customers suffer.

But do the hackers script kiddies f**k the RIAA and their cronies over? Doesn't look like it. Eircoms an easy target, it seems.

ronnyg28

Eircom will blame the russians again,it is obvious what is going on.a certain website "pirate bay" has launched a DDos attack on eircom for their stupidity of blocking access to their site.

Caliden

Well if it is people associated with piratebay doing it, then I'm not so pissed.
This way people will have 2 reasons to change ISP.
- **** service
- censored internet

wheels of ire

It seems to be back - I can even get the Eircom.net site to open.
Is there a mention or perhaps an apology?
What do you think? Not a word.
Impressive. Funny, one of my plans for tonight was going to be switching to BT.

SteveDon

Yeah they are a complete waste of time, will be changing isp very soon.

Until then switch you dns servers to http://www.opendns.com/

works a charm

bluefinger

eircom's a joke. and it stopped being funny a long time ago. do they still charge f'ing line rental.

using ntl years, never had a problem.