I have a really really weird issue with Orcon?

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Salami

237 posts

Master Geek

#205048 27-Oct-2016 21:47

I have this strange issue.

I've been with orcon for nearly 2 years.

There are times where a particular website which will not load.

The sites are random. It consists of facebook, google, ebay , paypal,pcworld etc.

When the sites are unreachable , IE, Opera and Chrome would say page cannot be displayed or dns address could not be found.

At first when the problem appears I could still access it thru IE and the problem would go away after half an hour or an hour.

Other times I would restart my modem and it would work fine.

But now it appears even with a reboot IE, Opera and Chrome fails to load the site.

Tonight facebook isn't loading.

Tomorrow it might be google.

The day after might be paypal.

Anyone have a clue what this could be?

Thanks

cynnicallemon

370 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1659328 27-Oct-2016 22:01

I had similar DNS issues with Orcon on occasions too. Maybe your router is caching a bad DNS lookup to a certain site until the cached entry expires.

You could try changing your DNS server to Google's to see if you still have the same issue. Googles DNS servers are, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

ubergeeknz

3344 posts

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Vocus

#1659329 27-Oct-2016 22:04

Try turning off "DNS Proxy" on your router IMO

Salami

237 posts

Master Geek

#1659331 27-Oct-2016 22:11

I turned off Dns proxy and wasnt able to load any websites

ubergeeknz

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Vocus

#1659354 27-Oct-2016 22:38

After you do it, you need to disconnect / reconnect your devices to pick up the correct DNS servers from DHCP ;)

linw

2849 posts

Uber Geek

#1659622 28-Oct-2016 11:38

I've had the odd DNS issue as well so have now turned DNS Proxy off. We'll see how that goes.

jamesrt

1609 posts

Uber Geek

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#1660335 29-Oct-2016 11:43

Thanks for this suggestion - we've had the same intermittent issue, so hopefully this fixes it.

hbngan

89 posts

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#1660643 29-Oct-2016 19:55

I have this issue with Chrome, cant resolve to google, youtube etc

but IE works

its a nuisance but to resolve I open a command window, type in ipconfig /flushdns and then its ok

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yitz

2075 posts

Uber Geek

#1660674 29-Oct-2016 21:17

I'm surprised this is only being brought up now.

Turning off of the DNS proxy is the workaround for those affected Netcomms and you will need to /flushdns on Windows.

Maybe there aren't as many freebie Netcomms being handed out as I thought.

richms

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#1660686 29-Oct-2016 22:01

This has on a couple of occasions made my phones decide there was no internet on the wifi and to disable it and go back to 4G. Really hopeless router for that.

Back to running my own DNS/DHCP and its all good on the wlan here again.

Richard rich.ms

sbiddle

30853 posts

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#1660759 30-Oct-2016 07:08

The NF4V DNS issue was fixed probably 18 months ago.

Are Orcon not automatically pushing out firmware still?

cynnicallemon

370 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1660813 30-Oct-2016 11:01

sbiddle: The NF4V DNS issue was fixed probably 18 months ago.

Probably is the word, I was still getting DNS issues occasionally right up to leaving Orcon a couple of weeks back.

hbngan

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#1661123 30-Oct-2016 22:22

I unticked the DNS proxy setting and flushed the DNS, but then can't get to google...
Looking at the dns proxy settings, The DNS proxy config just had orcon as hostname and home as the "land" domain name