Motorola Query DNS failure?

Question

Modem: Motorola
OS: XP SP2
ISP: Bellsouth / AT&T

Whats happening is I went to my modems IP to do a systems check because my internet appears to be cutting on and off.

I noticed that during its auto-checker the DNS server query keeps failing, I can still use the internet with my unaltered DNS setup, but it still keeps failing the check regardless.

Any idea what this is about or if its just a bug in the checker? (Modem is brand new)

Answer 1

After issues at a third-party networking provider took down Facebook for some users on Wednesday, the social networking site is once again struggling to stay online. The company reports latency issues with its API on its developer site, but the problem is clearly broader than that with thousands of users tweeting about the outage. On our end when we attempt to access Facebook, we’re seeing the message: “Internal Server Error – The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.” Facebook “Like” buttons also appear to be down on our site and across the Web. We’ve reached out to the company and will update when we know more. Update (3:45 p.m. ET): Facebook tells us that, “We’re currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. This is unrelated to yesterday’s outage.”

Answer 2

You don't have to use your ISP's DNS servers.



You could use Open DNS. Their addresses are bottom right of this page.

http://www.plus.net/support/software/browsers/proxies.shtml



You can change them in your modem if it will let you.

Or you can set the DNS addresses in the TCP/IP setup of your computer.

Answer 3

Contact your service provider.



Can you ping your own gateway and loopback?