odd DNS problem, maybe OT

[rikona]

Hello Tom,

Monday, December 6, 2010, 7:00:58 PM, Tom wrote:

TB> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 18:43, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> I have an odd problem. I have lost the ability to connect to anything
>> from sat.wrh.noaa.gov or star.nesdis.noaa.gov - these give sat and
>> radar weather info. I can connect to
TB> ...

TB> I had a similar problem with a bad dns for google recently--it looked
TB> like my ISP's DNS servers had been hijacked.  I changed all my DNS
TB> addresses to those of opendns.com and the problem went away.

Since my last email I also connected a Win box and got the same
result. This did start to look like a Comcast problem.

Your suggestion was excellent. I have another account with Sonic, so I
switched to their DNS servers [which I used to use]. This DID let me
see those addresses, so it does seem to be a Comcast problem. I guess
that's reason #473 for why Comcast is the pits. :-)

Part of the problem on one box still remains. It is related to Privoxy
- when Privoxy is on I still can't see them, but turning it off in the
browser lets me see them. I have not yet found a way to get privoxy to
'forget' the DNS it 'learned' before, but I'll work on that. 

But I can again track the local rain cells and time my dog walk to
avoid [most of] the rain. :-)

Thanks much,

 rikona