My ISP has been having troubles.

For the second time in a week, they’ve lost DNS.

This took me a while to figure out, because while I was unable to get anywhere by name but could via IP on my windows machines (which points to the DNS servers being down), I was able to get out via name from my linux box.

That didn’t make a whole lot of sense.

I finally got curious enough to look into my conf file on the linux box and discovered that at one point I had added another DNS server to the mix (must have done that when there was a problem in the past).

So… I’ve been calling my ISP, but their either not open yet or not answering the phone.

My contract with them ends in October and may end completely if they don’t give me a damn good reason to stay with them. I pay for a year at a time, and I’m not paying the typical DSL rates, I have a corperate package (with multiple static IP’s). I’m going to start calling around to see if I can get the same thing from someone else.

Of course, if I do that, the owners of the 40 some-odd domains I host will need to change the DNS entries for their domain. Should be interesting.