Is anyone else having internet DNS issues?

[IdBuRnS]

I woke up this morning, hopped on the web and I'm having serious DNS issues. Win7 Network and Sharing center showed that I was on my network but had no internet access. I've switched from Google DNS servers to the FiOS DNS, that doesn't help. The Google DNS seems to be a little worse.

Some websites load, some don't.

gmail works fine
yahoo works fine
can't load msn.com
can't load cnn.com (or many other sites)
the anand forums are really slow
the hard forums are really slow
Steam connects but I can't connect to any online game (ie WoW, Rift, Black Ops, BF:BC2, etc).

I'm here in Northern Virginia on Verizon FiOS- I've had service for 2.5 years and never had an issue like this.

I've rebooted the router, power cycled it, bypassed the switch here in my office, nothing seems to be helping.

Is this affecting anyone else?

 

[kevnich2]

My FIOS in FL seems to be working fine. My DNS is 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.3. If your still having issues, it may not be related to DNS, however. DNS just performs the hostname to IP translation. Meaning if you try and ping cnn.com and it resolves, then your DNS is operating fine. Might just be a network issue in your area. Give it a little bit and try again and then try calling the Verizon FSC and report an issue.

 

[IdBuRnS]

Whatever was going on seems to have resolved itself after a few hours.

Not a huge deal but I would have rather spent that hour before work this morning playing Rift instead of troubleshooting.

 

[kevnich2]

Just a general tip - if you're able to open some sites and not others and you haven't changed any settings and it was working before, then it's likely not a hardware issue so no need to switch your switch or cabling or anything like that.

 

[gsaldivar]

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