Tierra.net / Domaindiscover.com problems?

[Harlquinth]

Hi,

 

We've just started having problems this morning accessing our school's .org domain name, which is hosted by domaindiscover.com (who seem to be part of tierra.net).

 

Just curious if anyone else is having similar problems, or has any idea what the problem(s) might be? At the moment you can't even access the homepages for tierra.net or domaindiscover.com, so it looks like something quite serious!

 

Thanks, Peter.

[localzuk]

I can get to both of those websites straight away here. I suspect you may have an issue with your internet connection?

[jamesb]

Just checked, and I can hit both domaindiscover.com and tierra.net from here. Can you get to them by IP address (216.104.160.16)?

[Devontechie]

I can access but the domains from my internet connection. Can you give us your domain name to see if we can access that?

[Harlquinth]

Hi,

 

We tried using our backup internet connection (just a normal broadband connection) earlier as well in case it was a problem with our normal internet connection - just tried again and it still isn't working (not with the ip either). Interestingly though it does work if I remote to my home computer, so could some routes through the internet to that ip address be working and some not working?

 

Our domain name is http://www.trinity-school.org.

 

Thanks, Peter.

[localzuk]

That is working fine here.

 

Is your backup connection through the same ISP as your normal one? ie. an adsl backup to a fibre connection, both provided by your RBC or something?

[Harlquinth]

The backup connection is a completely different ISP as far as I know. Our normal connection is synetrix, and the backup one is eclipse.

 

Just been looking at twitter in case that had any info, and it looks like a few other people people are also having similar issues, though still not any detail on what the cause is: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/tierranet

 

Thanks, Peter.

 

Edit: Just noticed a new post on twitter saying that there's a partial dns outage:

"Partial DNS outage with @tierranet & #domaindiscover"

Edited March 28, 2012 by Harlquinth
Additional details

[Harlquinth]

Seems to be working again now, hopefully it stays that way!

 

Someone pointed out this article on the BBC to me which looks quite interesting - makes me wonder if this was a practice for what they talk about in the article!:

BBC News - Viewpoint: How hackers could decapitate the internet

 

Thanks again for the help/suggestions.

 

Peter.

Edited March 28, 2012 by Harlquinth
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