Thread: when part of net down why are some sites down?

i thought the great thing about a network like the internet was that u cannot kill it by harming part of it ... might become slower but other routers take on the job of affected routers ...

so why is it that a lot of sites like paypal . com santaletternow freetext . com are not working since friday?

using bsnl in Bangalore

May be there is some problem in the dns servers you are using. Try using opendns servers. Visit opendns.com, set ur dns to
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

it was weird that most of the websites did not work for me during the past 2 months..including mibbit, hp, invisionfree and most other sites..all i could do was use yahoo, google, msn and microsoft... then i came upon a website like this by accident which gave the DNS server IPs of BSNL Dataone.
Here is the original site

dataone.in

I used the IPs
61.1.96.69
61.1.64.65

Instead of these IPs
218.248.240.208
218.248.240.135

Now the problem is solved and i can open all sites

Shouldn't the modem automatically update this? How am I supposed to know when to update the DNS IPs everytime >_>

Hope this doesnt happen again

As mentioned in this thread : http://www.indiabroadband.net/airtel...-1-5-days.html (Extreme slow down since 1.5 days) You would experience higher ping times and slower speeds till those cables are repaired... at the moment the work is in progress by some Itelian firm and shouldnt take too long.

Your issue may or may not be connected to this cables problem or slow speed it sounds more like a DNS issue.

Try open dns instead of the ones provided by your isp and see if things improve.

Do let us know if this helped.

but this has only happened since friday i used all those 3 sites thursday

i do some business via paypal ... what are the alt DNs IPs i can use?

Originally Posted by Admin

As mentioned in this thread :
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You would experience higher ping times and slower speeds till those cables are repaired... at the moment the work is in progress by some Itelian firm and shouldnt take too long.
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Do let us know if this helped.

I was just wondering that how can I improve ping, especialy for Online Gaming. Will changing the DNS address help. If so Please provide some good DNS address. Any help would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by poojablr5

but this has only happened since friday i used all those 3 sites thursday

i do some business via paypal ... what are the alt DNs IPs i can use?

Try the dns ip's provided on this page (3 Tips To Significantly Speed Up BSNL Dataone Broadband Connection)

Originally Posted by thats_me

I was just wondering that how can I improve ping, especialy for Online Gaming. Will changing the DNS address help. If so Please provide some good DNS address. Any help would be appreciated.

Although I am not the best person to answer this question but as far as I understand while gaming your system doesnt go through any server and connects directly to other gamers so dns doesnt play any role while the game is on.

PS: I might be wrong.

Originally Posted by Admin

Although I am not the best person to answer this question but as far as I understand while gaming your system doesnt go through any server and connects directly to other gamers so dns doesnt play any role while the game is on.

PS: I might be wrong.

Thanks for sharing the info.

While gaming online, ur pc sends data to the server (where the game is hosted, it can be a private pc, that means anyone can host the game, others around the world can connect to ur server if they know ur ip and are not stopped by firewalls) and receives data back. the longer time (in mili sec) it takes the slower/crappy gaming u get. DNS servers are not involved in this process as ADMIN already said.
So, there is no possible way to improve latency/ping. There is one chance though, if the server is hosted by one of ur pals ( supposing u know each other ), u can always tell the person with the lowest latency to host the game. Not applicable for official servers.
Anything else u wanna know ?

Originally Posted by Evander Leopold

Anything else u wanna know ?

Actualy I want to play UT3 online on some low ping servers. But had little luck with that so far.

try some private game hosting sites. google it. they offer users to create and host servers. that way u will have the flexibility to play on indian servers. (i play CS1.6 regularly)
and hopefully avoid high latency.

ty Admin , that worked set it in windows and in the modem - dunnoa bout logical but it did not work when i put it in modem only