Comcast attempting to start blocking?

[RikaKazak]

Hi chicken little, my names Rika, nice to meet you.

[Wetdog]

OP is just commenting on the observation that *poker.com does not resolve while disney.com or cocacola.com for example resolves with no problem. I don't understand the trashing coming from the children in the audience.

[ChipFerFree]

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Hi chicken little, my names Rika, nice to meet you.

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I love this line -- can I use it?

[TomR]

It appears to be a technical problem: Thread in Comcast users forum at DSLReports

[MrDannimal]

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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.

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I had past problems with Comcast (Ann Arbor) where some sites would get found just fine and other sites wouldn't (not poker related, but still known-good sites). For example, I could get to google.com but not yahoo.com.

While I was never told by a phone monkey that yahoo.com didn't exist, I also would be skeptical if a Comcast phone monkey said "The sky is blue, and 1pm is after a typical lunch time."

It's not uncommon for this kind of problem to pop up. My solution was to unplug the cable modem for a minute and start over. You might also be able to flush the local machine's DNS cache (ipconfig /flush_dns from a command prompt).

It's not some goofy blocking ploy on Comcast's part.

[Gregg777]

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It appears to be a technical problem: Thread in Comcast users forum at DSLReports

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So exactly how do those ragging on the OP like your crow?

[vinyard]

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So exactly how do those ragging on the OP like your crow?

[/ QUOTE ] You mean like the people who wrote "This is a pretty common problem." who were, you know, correct? OP created a chicken little thread where he asserted that it was only gambling sites when, in actuality, some of the biggest sites on the web (youtube, reuters, myspace, cnn) were having problems as well.

[Chunky]

http://www.opendns.com/ is a solution.

[WYDGD]

Why offer a solution or a say something worthwhile when you can just be rude instead?

[2461Badugi]

Comcast lying about whether their systems are working properly is not uncommon.