Comcast attempting to start blocking?

[ekdikeo]

Comcast Detroit's DNS is not resolving any hostnames that belong to any of the major poker sites, as far as I can tell. Been that way since at least 4am when I woke up. Comcast customer service says there's nothing wrong with their DNS, and that it's working fine, and that there actually are no such sites as "cakepoker.com" and "partypoker.com" and "pokerstars.com" and such.

I switched to another DNS server, and it's working fine. I can't imagine any reason whatsoever for only a partial failure of DNS services, so I've got to believe that either someone has poisoned the Comcast DNS or someone has intentionally deleted records from it.

[edfurlong]

This kind of thing isn't uncommon. Go away.

[ekdikeo]

It's not uncommon for a DNS server to start rejecting requests for certain sites that do exist?

What planet are YOU from?

[midwestkc]

I can pull them up fine, and I have comcast. Must just be a temporary thing. It'll correct itself.

[joeker]

There are alotta technical reasons why this could be happening to you, the biggest one being that your computer was infected and your host file was changed. I would check that first. it's in the windows\system32\drivers\etc directory and it's called "hosts" (no extension)

If there are entries in this file for those sites, there's shouldn't be.

[edfurlong]

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It's not uncommon for a DNS server to start rejecting requests for certain sites that do exist?

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Correct.

[ekdikeo]

If that were the case, changing DNS services wouldn't affect it, nor would Comcast support tell me that those sites are no longer registered with the DNS. I told my router to ignore Comcast's DNS, and to use 2 other ISP DNS servers, and a third one off shore, then had all the computers on the network renew their DHCP. I'm vaguely worried that they may start IP blocking.

edfurlong: I've been using DNS since 1988, and I can't recall having ever run into a system that would only return information for some hosts and not others, unless those hosts were intentionally and regularly deleted from the server.

[BigF]

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Comcast Detroit's DNS is not resolving any hostnames that belong to any of the major poker sites, as far as I can tell. Been that way since at least 4am when I woke up. Comcast customer service says there's nothing wrong with their DNS, and that it's working fine, and that there actually are no such sites as "cakepoker.com" and "partypoker.com" and "pokerstars.com" and such.

I switched to another DNS server, and it's working fine. I can't imagine any reason whatsoever for only a partial failure of DNS services, so I've got to believe that either someone has poisoned the Comcast DNS or someone has intentionally deleted records from it.

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STFU you tool.

[joeker]

Of course you've been using DNS, anyone who uses the Internet uses DNS.

It as a technical glitch, they happen all the time.

[ChipFerFree]

Lord there are some mean ass people on this thread. Take a lude people.