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Originally Posted by Moderator (Post 1568343)

For those having problems, who is your internet provider?

For me, Comcast is working.

Just trying to figure out the common denominator.

Thanks,

Moderator

I appreciate you looking into it right away. It's true, it's not the end of the world. But good service starts right away and the sooner you get the information the sooner you will have a solution. thank-you

Comcast for me also, and I tried 2 browsers, IE11 and Firefox with the same results, all is fine now.

It gets blamed for everything else so it must be Fenney's fault.

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Originally Posted by New Englander (Post 1568374)

It gets blamed for everything else so it must be Fenney's fault.

Nahh, the problem was repaired before the signal ever had a chance...to make it that far away.

:D

Comcast and Verizon thru my cell phone. Restarted phones, modems & computers. All the usual tricks didn't work.
What are you gonna do it happens! Different browsers.

Its gotta be TV's problem--had it when I was with CL, still have now & I'm with Xfinity

And I had it in France with the internet provider Orange!

Can get on via one computer but not the other. The other cannot find the server.

Tal...problem this morning?

Will alert admin of yesterday’s problems. Seems sporadic.

All...please keep posting for any connection issues you experience today.

Thanks,

Moderator

Better for me this morning.
(hate to say it out loud)

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Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 1568336)

Just happened again.........tough to get in.

It's the Snowbirds.

Or maybe it's the Summerturtles.

And obviously it's back up again and nothing here is critical but the outages can get tedious.

Moderator

Where are the DNS servers? Is it part of my router/modem software? Is it part of Comcasts and or TOTV router/server software? Is the smart thing to do for a user is to wait it out until something is restarted?

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Originally Posted by duhbear (Post 1568493)

And obviously it's back up again and nothing here is critical but the outages can get tedious.

Especially if you are a paid advertiser.

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Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 1568534)

I'm not a moderator but posted this to help people understand how this all works.

DNS servers are located around the world. The largest 20 are in the US. These are the most popular and busiest.

Consider a DNS server as an index of IP addresses that convert your Talk of The Villages Florida - The Online Community Forum request to an accessible IP address. Any index change must propagate throughout the DNS system, this might take some time. Looks like TOTV changed to a GODADDY hosting service at some time, which will change the indexes. If you happen to hit a DNS server along your path to the site with an outdated index you will get some of these connection errors.

If you are asking where are the settings for your DNS servers are, they are in the devices that you use. Your modem has one set by your internet service provider. This is used initially by devices that are hooked up to that modem. You can further change the individual device, iPad, PC, ... DNS servers by going to the network properties of that network device. Then after you are connected to your ISP you can set the preferred DNS servers for that particular device IP searches. Some Century Link users here have reported success by making DNS changes.

There is usually no need to change specific device DNS settings.