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Comcast had a massive “outage” on Monday that affected Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. Note that “outage” is in quotation marks, because the problem wasn’t with the physical links that made up its broadband network, nor with routers that connect segments large and small. Instead, it was a bit of plumbing gone awry, like a faucet tap that can’t be opened up, even though the pipes and water are all fine.</p><p>
Comcast had a DNS (Domain Name System) server failure in parts of the country. DNS is the glue that converts human-readable and -typeable names like “www.macworld.com” into the underlying Internet Protocol (IP) numbers used to initiate connections like 70.42.185.230 and 2607:f8b0:400a:805::1004. (The former is old-fashioned, original-flavor IPv4; the latter IPv6.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2930714/change-your-dns-to-avoid-or-bypass-broadband-outages-like-comcasts.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Change your DNS to avoid or bypass broadband 'outages' like Comcast's
