Indeed, their DNS servers are currently down. The problem started some time after midnight, they've been up & down since then. In the meantime if you change your DNS servers, you can get online.

Hi, yes just got an emergency call from home, put 8.8.8.8 on teh pihole and all came back. Skys DNS is definitely down, traffic routing normal otherwise

Cyril

Astounding that they do not have monitoring for this.

boosacnoodle:

 

Astounding that they do not have monitoring for this.

 

Sky have never cared about their customers, why would they start now just because they have an ISP as well :-P

Lias:

boosacnoodle:

Astounding that they do not have monitoring for this.

Sky have never cared about their customers, why would they start now just because they have an ISP as well :-P

Their DNS servers are now back online.

Just to go completely off topic, I set up an Android box and DNS proxy for friends just after Sky forced other ISPs to stop offering global mode. They got into an argument with a Sky technician (at a party, I think) who absolutely insisted that what I had done was completely impossible. DNS proxies and VPNs didn't exist and with global mode gone no-one could stream anything outside their 'allowed' region. In spite of my friends pointing out that they were already doing this, he swore it couldn't be done. According to my friends he was really insistent about this and couldn't be swayed. Either he was an exceptionally loyal employee, or his level of technical competence was about par for Sky technicians.

Edit: Thread title changed to reflect that the issue is resolved

Not a Chorus issue, but likely a Vocus (now 2 Degrees?) one.  Pretty sure they were mentioned as providing the infrastructure for the Broadband Network?  

evnafets:

Not a Chorus issue, but likely a Vocus (now 2 Degrees?) one.  Pretty sure they were mentioned as providing the infrastructure for the Broadband Network?