Comments on: Lycos and Hotwired experiencing DNS problems http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/ Making the Internet safer and faster Tue, 15 May 2012 00:05:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andre CostaeSilva http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-11325 Andre CostaeSilva Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:18:34 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-11325 It was a big nuisance, since you cannot reach either their home page for webmail or their POP and SMTP services. I am still experiencing problems with the POP and SMTP services from my office, where we do not use openDNS. So far I have got no acknowledgement from Lycos that they had the problem. One of the answers I got was showing me how to configure my mail client (!) and the other suggested that people who were writing me could be in their black list (!!) It was a big nuisance, since you cannot reach either their home page for webmail or their POP and SMTP services. I am still experiencing problems with the POP and SMTP services from my office, where we do not use openDNS.

So far I have got no acknowledgement from Lycos that they had the problem. One of the answers I got was showing me how to configure my mail client (!) and the other suggested that people who were writing me could be in their black list (!!)

]]> By: Justin http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10275 Justin Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:18:00 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10275 Here are a couple news items about the outage: Lycos back online after outage http://news.com.com/Lycos+suffers+outage/2100-1038_3-6146635.html SAVVIS outage knocks Lycos offline http://www.itworld.com/Net/2607/070102savvisoutage/ Here are a couple news items about the outage:

Lycos back online after outage
http://news.com.com/Lycos+suffers+outage/2100-1038_3-6146635.html

SAVVIS outage knocks Lycos offline
http://www.itworld.com/Net/2607/070102savvisoutage/

]]> By: Den http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10270 Den Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:43:49 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10270 liveleak.com = ok www.liveleak.com = no go Videos not showing either. liveleak.com = ok
http://www.liveleak.com = no go

Videos not showing either.

]]> By: Eric http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10267 Eric Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:04:42 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10267 I wouldn't count on it being fixed soon. It's been down nearly all morning EST. I've been searching for sites for coverage, and haven't been able to blog about it since they provide my DNS. I wouldn’t count on it being fixed soon. It’s been down nearly all morning EST. I’ve been searching for sites for coverage, and haven’t been able to blog about it since they provide my DNS.

]]> By: Justin http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10266 Justin Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:43:50 +0000 http://blog.opendns.com/2007/01/02/lycos-and-hotwired-experiencing-dns-problems/#comment-10266 I don't know about you but it seems pretty foolish to host all your DNS servers in one network: ns1.hotwired.com 209.202.239.15 ns2.hotwired.com 209.202.239.16 ns3.hotwired.com 209.202.239.26 ns4.hotwired.com 209.202.239.26 ns5.hotwired.com 209.202.239.26 Probably not the best idea :) How are they able to have three non-unique name servers? ns3, ns4, and ns5? Peace, - Justin I don’t know about you but it seems pretty foolish to host all your DNS servers in one network:

ns1.hotwired.com 209.202.239.15
ns2.hotwired.com 209.202.239.16
ns3.hotwired.com 209.202.239.26
ns4.hotwired.com 209.202.239.26
ns5.hotwired.com 209.202.239.26

Probably not the best idea :)

How are they able to have three non-unique name servers? ns3, ns4, and ns5?

Peace,
- Justin

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