[Nottingham] NTL 10Mb :: Speeeeeeed

[David Bean]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 01:50 +0100, Richard Bagshaw wrote:
> Slightly off topic, anyone having problems with NTL tonight? the usual 
> 1100k/sec download has dropped to around 30 - 100k/sec.  Weirdly enough 
> I have downloaded quite a bit tonight and im a bit worried about caps 
> and QoS.

Seems like NTL are either having issues, or are doing some maintenance:

$ nslookup
> www.ebay.co.uk
Server:         194.168.4.100
Address:        194.168.4.100#53

** server can't find www.ebay.co.uk: SERVFAIL
> server 194.168.8.100
Default server: 194.168.8.100
Address: 194.168.8.100#53
> www.ebay.co.uk
Server:         194.168.8.100
Address:        194.168.8.100#53

** server can't find www.ebay.co.uk: SERVFAIL


Seems like some sites can't be resolved with NTL's cache DNS servers,
while others can.

Dave Bean