DNS Problems on Excitel Broadband

[Aakash Malhotra]

man why cant they just let us user change the dns with the explicit warning being given that we will lose the peering features and such .
i wouldnt mind using google's dns server even if i lose peering speed for some time.

edit - google dns is not working. even though i have it set in my router it is still taking excitels dns

 

[Sushubh]

It was ignoring custom dns earlier as well I believe. Yesterday it just stopped accepting queries or something. @Vedant might be able to highlight what they were doing.

 

[manu1991]

I am not using any custom dns and even my connection stopped working yesterday night for about an hour. It said connected and I was able to ping ip addresses but site names were not resolving. I guess their dns server had crashed or something

 

[Sushubh]

DNS problems are becoming quite frequent. It is giving issues yet again.

 

[Aakash Malhotra]

yes same here :/

 

[salaxzar]

Using google DNS. Working fine for me.

 

[Sushubh]

it has gone down 3 times for small durations 5-10 minutes since that night when it was down for hours.

 

[Aakash Malhotra]

Using google DNS. Working fine for me.

just putting google's dns in your router settings doesnt work . excitel forces their own dns. so even when u think u are on google's dns , you are not

 

[ijsa]

How does Excitel force my router/ adapter/ browser....

 

[Smh]

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