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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Sean,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Yep – we’ve got customers calling us saying they can’t get email – all on Telstra too - they can ping the IP of our domain hosting server but can’t resolve any names.  Doing an NSLookup with the Telstra DNS servers
 fails to find our servers too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Sean K. Finn [mailto:sean.finn@ozservers.com.au]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Brisbane Telstra DNS issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi is anyone else experiencing Telstra DNS issues in Brisbane?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It appears as though someone at Telstra has blocked all UDP-Port53 requests from any Telstra connection in Brisbane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Not only can’t I resolve using Telstra’s Brisbane DNS, I can’t resolve any other nameservers when using a Telstra ADSL Connection here in Sunny Brisvegas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This issue appears to be Widespread.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If someone from Telstra is Lurking, please unblock UDP port 53 as it’s kind of essential for Internets to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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