IPV6 - loosing websites DNS issue

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Morgenmuffel

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#171374 15-Apr-2015 16:29

Greetings all

I have been having outages on just some sites recently, and i have found that if I turn off ipv6 support in my browser, these sites work correctly but these outages are not permanant, for instance i was hapilly checking facebook this morning and then this afternoon a bout 10 mins ago, i was unable to access it.

But if I turn off IPV6 support in my browser i can access the site again (or I can wait 10 mins or so and the site then becomes available again)

This is what I have tried

Multiple browsers (Firefox developer and Opera mainly), if I turn off IPV6 support the sites are viewable, if I turn it back on the sites aren't viewable

Below is a picture

showing Opera (with IPV6 turned on), next to Firefox Dev (with IPV6 turned off),

I only noticed this about the time we switched to a Genius White router (from a Genius Black), but it could have been happening earlier its just that that is the first time I noticed I had an ipv6 connection

my ip (according to whats my ip)

not here any more

note the reason i am using the geekzone page is that the error there at least has a useful message, oh and its back working fine on ipv6 now
Cheers

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#1284918 15-Apr-2015 16:33

Been using IPv6 on Orcon for the past couple of years with really no problems. Posting on IPv6 now.

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Morgenmuffel

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#1284919 15-Apr-2015 16:33

I should say that 90% of sites don't seem to be effected by this, so far only facebook and doublclick ads appear to be effected, when these two go down everything else keeps going fine, it is just odd

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#1284939 15-Apr-2015 16:43

You should consider removing your IP addresses from this post.

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Morgenmuffel

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#1291517 25-Apr-2015 20:58

Ok this is still happening, and the nets been utter crap the last few days as well.

But currently as 8:46 pm can't access facebook via an ipv6 enabled browser, but can access it with one that has Ipv6 disabled

BUT geekzone still has the ipv6 logo showing (when accessed with an ipv6 browser) and I even tested that in Chromes porno mode to ensure it wasn't a cacheing thing.

Is there some sort of useful test i can do when this happens to see what is going on?

This webpage is not available

The server at www.facebook.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Opera from accessing the network.

so two issues

1) Can't access some sites via ipv6 enabled browsers at some random periods during the day
2) Pages timing out and loading slowly via multiple browsers and windows and linux

Chrome kept giving DNS issue errors yesterday when i was unable to access the web via any browser.

8:57 facebook is back again

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Morgenmuffel

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#1291526 25-Apr-2015 21:29

Just ran that one for speed, no idea if its good or bad

Had to reboot the router to get this one to work

1 bit of weirdness I have noticed, I just flushed my DNS cache etc and then could no longer access the net, i had to reboot the router,

Is it possible to add a third DNS server to the router

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Morgenmuffel

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#1294301 30-Apr-2015 13:54

And we re up to reboot number 5 or 6 today,
every time i run the windows troubleshooting tool it comes back with "The DNS server isn't responding",
sometimes the outages are a few minutes and it comes back without having to reboot the router,
othertimes rebooting the router fixes it and other times it doesn't.

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kiwikiwi

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#1294309 30-Apr-2015 14:18

Sounddude: Hi Guys

We had an issue with a core link in Auckland. We believe this to be resolved now.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=82&topicid=170919&page_no=11#1294270

there was a bit more then just ipv6 customers dropping but the speed drop and bandwidth is sounding a lot more like mine, maybe worth your time posting in said link above

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Morgenmuffel

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#1297734 4-May-2015 16:02

And again with the DNS issue 10 mins ago, internet access stops, run windows troubleshoot thing DNS issue yet again

open router page, select static DNS server put in address of openDNS servers in, save
able to access internet

Not sure if it is just coincidence as these outages last any from minutes to half an hour or so

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#1300082 7-May-2015 19:15

Does disabling then re-enabling the connection in your pc magically get IPv6 working again?

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