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Problems with Usenet and Vodafone DSL

  • 20-12-2009 1:30pm
    #1
    keith_d99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Since switching to vodafone I am getting issues with Usenet - anybody else have problems???

    Getting the following:
    Could not resolve hostname eu.news.astraweb.com: ErrNo 2, Host name lookup failure

    I can ping that address fine through DOS and I've even changed DNS settings on the router to OpenDNS servers.

    Anyone?

    Cheers,
    Keith.


Comments

  • #2
    keith_d99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭keith_d99


    Bump - anyone????


  • #3
    mykro28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭mykro28


    Not a VF customer but the url resolves fine for me. Try changing your DNS server to a different one. Use nslookup from cmd and use the server command to specify a different DNS server and test. then change your DNS to permanently to the new server.
    Eircom has some old ones that I use, 194.125.133.10 and 194.125.133.11 (old indigo dns servers) or you could try something like opendns???

    Hope this helps..


  • #4
    keith_d99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,932 ✭✭✭keith_d99


    Yeah switched to OpenDNS and no change.
    Pings fine from laptop which is strange (Usenet is running on Popcorn Hour on the same network). Worked fine on Eircom - wonder if the block is at the Vodafone end.
    mykro28 wrote: »
    Not a VF customer but the url resolves fine for me. Try changing your DNS server to a different one. Use nslookup from cmd and use the server command to specify a different DNS server and test. then change your DNS to permanently to the new server.
    Eircom has some old ones that I use, 194.125.133.10 and 194.125.133.11 (old indigo dns servers) or you could try something like opendns???

    Hope this helps..


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