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Message 1503415 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 0:54:58 UTC - in response to Message 1503141.  

... but different ISPs and so normaly different DNS-servers.
I changed "my" DNS-server manualy to a different one than the provider sets up, because other services where much more performant. There are two helpful and simple tools for checking the speed of dnsresolving, DNSbench and namebench.

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Because both my ISP's still can't resolve lunatics.kwsn.net, I decided to check the set of nameservers which DNSbench finds usable here. The majority do find the correct address, but quite a few fail:

DNS server         Result
129.250.35.250     *** x.ns.gin.ntt.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
129.250.35.251     *** y.ns.gin.ntt.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
216.231.41.2       *** UnKnown can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
216.254.95.2       *** dns.nyc1.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
216.27.175.2       *** dns.atl1.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
64.81.127.2        *** dns.dfw1.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
64.81.159.2        *** dns.chi1.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
64.81.45.2         *** dns.lax1.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
64.81.79.2         *** dns.sfo1.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
66.92.159.2        *** dns.wdc1.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
66.92.224.2        *** phl.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
66.92.64.2         *** bos.speakeasy.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed
74.118.212.1       *** UnKnown can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed

After seeing that, I was surprised that 66.93.87.2 (dns.sea1.speakeasy.net) did work OK. Crazy quilt stuff.
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Message 1503560 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 12:28:50 UTC - in response to Message 1503415.  
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... at the moment like a turn light, works - works not - works - works not ...

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Message 1503568 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 13:19:39 UTC - in response to Message 1503560.  

... at the moment like a turn light, works - works not - works - works not ...

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Did you try to access directly with the IP adress? 63.247.72.178
All is working from here.
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Message 1503589 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 14:52:37 UTC - in response to Message 1503568.  

... no need at the moment, turn light is on - works ;-)

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Message 1503599 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 15:22:23 UTC - in response to Message 1503568.  

... at the moment like a turn light, works - works not - works - works not ...

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Did you try to access directly with the IP adress? 63.247.72.178
All is working from here.


Best bet is to add that to your hosts file.

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Message 1503614 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 15:54:13 UTC

I haven't had any issues the whole time. In my router I use my ISP as my primary DNS and then 8.8.8.8 (Goggle) as my secondary. Single adding goggle as the secondary I don't think I have been having any DNS issues.
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Message 1503706 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 20:21:09 UTC

I was able to reach Lunatics just now. Earlier in the week, I was able to get through once, but most of the time it failed.
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Message 1503737 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 21:33:49 UTC

Finally after adding Google (8.8.8.8) as secondary DNS i can reach the site from home again. Strange though.
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Message 1504255 - Posted: 15 Apr 2014, 6:33:01 UTC

I see the problem is not solved yet. So, I sent Toby a message about what I found. Hoping it will be a help.
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Message 1504257 - Posted: 15 Apr 2014, 6:37:16 UTC

I could not reach it just now either. Even though I could when I last posted. And I am not playing around with hosts files or anything. Just hitting my usual bookmarked link.
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Message 1504438 - Posted: 15 Apr 2014, 19:46:25 UTC

I can still reach it, but I have it in my hosts file and I also have the google 8.8.8.8 dns server added.

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Message 1508813 - Posted: 26 Apr 2014, 12:57:52 UTC

Is the site still up because i can not reach it

thank you in advance for the information

is there a new adress to reach it?

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Message 1508817 - Posted: 26 Apr 2014, 13:35:48 UTC - in response to Message 1508813.  

Is the site still up because i can not reach it

thank you in advance for the information

is there a new adress to reach it?

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yes, the site is up.
With this line in hosts file it reachable from my location right now:

63.247.72.178 lunatics.kwsn.net
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Message 1511160 - Posted: 2 May 2014, 7:42:23 UTC

Not sure what's been going on - it's only lunatics.kwsn.net that I've seen this issue. Over the past several weeks I lost access to it from my work computer (VM physically located in Brisbane, Australia), but could still access from home (Sydney, Australia). Today, I just lost access from my home computer as well. I can only access by manually specifying the address in my hosts file. I'd prefer to avoid manual work-arounds if possible. Has there been any progress with finding out what's happening?
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Message 1511182 - Posted: 2 May 2014, 9:10:37 UTC - in response to Message 1500292.  

Adding a line to hosts file solved the problem for me.

sample /etc/hosts (I think there is a HOSTS file in windows too)
localhost 127.0.0.1
linux1 127.0.0.1
lunatics.kwsn.net 63.247.72.178
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Message 1511257 - Posted: 2 May 2014, 13:42:03 UTC - in response to Message 1511182.  

Adding a line to hosts file solved the problem for me.

Yes, but Wedge said he didn't want to do that.

FWIW, I just tried it here at work. I don't believe I've ever taken this computer to the site before. It worked fine.
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Message 1511487 - Posted: 2 May 2014, 19:34:18 UTC

The hosts "fix" did it for me :)
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Message 1511507 - Posted: 2 May 2014, 20:25:38 UTC

An alternative to editing the hosts file, as pointed out earlier by HAL9000 and Ulrich Metzner, is to modify which nameservers are being used. There are programs which will do that semi-automatically for Windows, for instance those listed at http://www.softpedia.com/downloadTag/Change+DNS.

Since I posted a couple of weeks ago, the public nameservers provided by Level3 and UltraDNS have lost *.kwsn.net, but Google and OpenDNS nameservers remain OK. Toby's hope that the situation would resolve itself over time is still possible, of course, but I'm not encouraged by the trend.
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Message 1511609 - Posted: 3 May 2014, 3:11:23 UTC

Well this looks a bit odd.
> lunatics.kwsn.net
Server:  ni.kwsn.net
Address:  63.247.72.178

*** ni.kwsn.net can't find lunatics.kwsn.net: Server failed

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Message 1511623 - Posted: 3 May 2014, 4:29:21 UTC

Just an off the wall suspicion to throw out there. Could Lunatics/KWSN/ISP be operating over a VPN service, which have recently been blacklisted by certain Internet infrastructure companies ? If (at a stretch) this is so, seeing what I'm seeing with respect to the US Comcast Vs Netflix debacle, I'd suggest switching to someone who'll provide the bandwidth you paid for with no blocking/shaping.
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