Anybody else having DNS issues today? register.com , Cbeyond ?

[airdata]

One of our domains is registered at Register.com, and they're having DNS issues.

Which means that our website isn't coming up for anybody by name.

Is there a way to have another company publish the dns record without moving the domain to another host?>

*Edit*

Initial website on register.com is now up, along w\ host-tracker.com which i'm guessing was also on register.com.

Now our main ISP's DNS is down and therefore our main website is down, whereas the first one is back up...


Anybody else having DNS issues today?!!?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Your registrar controls where requests are sent for a particular domain, www.example.com > 1.2.3.4 and 2.3.4.5 are the domain name servers responsible for that domain. Sooooo, unless you can change that to another server you control and update the records for, you are out of luck. This is why we run our dns servers for our domain in house. Even after a change it can take a day or more to propagate across the net

 

[RebateMonger]

Is there a way to have another company publish the dns record without moving the domain to another host?>

Sure. It's done all the time. You set up a public DNS account for your Domain on a DNS server elsewhere and then change the DNS records for your Domain where your Domain is registered (Register.com in this case). As noted, it typically takes anywhere from a few hours to a day for the bulk of DNS servers across the world to note the changes in your Domain records.

There are both paid and "free" public DNS servers available. Zonedit.com is where I have some of my public DNS servers. Or you can run your own DNS public servers if you know what you are doing.

Now our main ISP's DNS is down and therefore our main website is down, whereas the first one is back up...

If you have your own server that provides local DNS services, you can tell your local DNS server to use the web's "Root Servers" rather than your ISP's DNS servers. The Root Servers should be more reliable than your ISP's.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Sure. It's done all the time. You set up a public DNS account for your Domain on a DNS server elsewhere and then change the DNS records for your Domain where your Domain is registered (Register.com in this case). As noted, it typically takes anywhere from a few hours to a day for the bulk of DNS servers across the world to note the changes in your Domain records.

There are both paid and "free" public DNS servers available. Zonedit.com is where I have some of my public DNS servers. Or you can run your own DNS public servers if you know what you are doing.

Another vote for zoneedit, I've used them for 10+ years now.