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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Off Topic: Anyone else experiencing intermittent DNS problems?
In-Reply-To: <37B9688A.9B6CC6F5@mintel.co.uk> from Jason Thomson at "Aug 17, 1999 02:50:02 pm"
To: jason.thomson@mintel.co.uk (Jason Thomson)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:15:21 -0700 (PDT)
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Jason Thomson writes:
> Apologies for the off-topic post,  but we have been
> experiencing intermittent DNS problems,  and I was wondering
> if other people are also experiencing problems?
> 
> We have been seeing intermittent problems since late last
> week.  Some queries would fail,  and then a short time later
> succeed.  It may well be our service provider here,  but I'm
> just wondering whether other people have seen transient
> network errors.  (I know this shouldn't affect _only_ DNS,
> but that appears to be the only symptoms we're seeing -
> maybe because of traffic type / patterns and caching
> behaviour).
> 
> It all seems to be working OK now though (so maybe I was
> just dreaming).

I just noticed the same thing trying to go to www.americanexpress.com.
It failed, and then a little while later it worked. Weird.

-Archie

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