WXC VoIP line down

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pjnet

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#243227 1-Dec-2018 22:34

Has anybody else noticed their WXC (now Vodafone Nextgen services) VOIP line go down? Apparently the domain name for wxc.co.nz expired this morning at 3am.

May the farce be with you!

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#2137991 2-Dec-2018 07:47

Yep, you're not alone.

Looks like both the xnet.co.nz and wxc.co.nz domains have expired. Wow.

RunningMan

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#2137992 2-Dec-2018 07:51

Looks like it went offline about 5.15pm Saturday.

0800 123 456 is the call centre number.

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#2137994 2-Dec-2018 07:59

Call the call centre (not open until 10.00 on Sunday, that's OK), but the network status message relates to scheduled maintenance on the 11th April, just a wee bit out of date?

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#2137995 2-Dec-2018 08:03

RunningMan:

Yep, you're not alone.

Looks like both the xnet.co.nz and wxc.co.nz domains have expired. Wow.

Where are you seeing them showing as expired (other than that page)? A whois shows they're not.

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#2137996 2-Dec-2018 08:05

Drop either domain into a web browser and it returns a domain expired generic page.

stun.wxnz.net is pointing to 209.99.40.223 which doesn't seem right either

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#2138003 2-Dec-2018 08:12

RunningMan:

Drop either domain into a web browser and it returns a domain expired generic page.

It's a hijack or redirect of some sort - the actual domain isn't expired... Unless they expired and somebody has reregistered them but kept all the details the same to make it look legit.

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#2138004 2-Dec-2018 08:15

Looks like redirects of the various domains going to fwd.datafoundry.com

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#2138006 2-Dec-2018 08:24

This seems to be working again now - at least the wxc.co.nz is correct for me.

pjnet

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#2138010 2-Dec-2018 08:35

Interestingly it’s a DNS caching issue. If I use Spark mobile or the google dns the name resolves correctly, if I use Vodafone, Warehouse mobile or OpenDNS it returns the expired page.

May the farce be with you!

pjnetnz
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#2138012 2-Dec-2018 08:37

Just tried from a Voyager connection, no go. Local DNS flushed first, but TTL is coming back under 5 mins anyway.

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#2138026 2-Dec-2018 08:56

Just got the IP address from Google DNS and added to my VOIP config instead of the pan.wxnz.net and it connected fine, looks like they left it a bit late to renew the DNS and a number of providers have not flushed the old expired details yet, things will probably return to normal once everybody updates their caches. Interesting that Vodafone's DNS has it wrong given they own them.

May the farce be with you!

pjnetnz
:)