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--></style></head><body lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Telstra DSL customers can query any other recursive servers fine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Google/Optus staples tested and working ok.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">It's definitely the Telstra DNS hosts.</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ryan </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><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:<a href="mailto:sean.finn@ozservers.com.au">sean.finn@ozservers.com.au</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 12 June 2013 11:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Ryan Crouch'; <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [AusNOG] Brisbane Telstra DNS issues</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">IP connectivity is fine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Probably better than normal. Getting rid of DNS kind of gets rid of congestion one would imagine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Try doing an NSLOOKUP and using a remote server and see if you can confirm UDP is being blocked?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Sean.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><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""> Ryan Crouch [<a href="mailto:ryan@apexn.com.au">mailto:ryan@apexn.com.au</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> Sean K. Finn; <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [AusNOG] Brisbane Telstra DNS issues</span></p></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Confirmed we are seeing this too.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Getting SERVFAIL to the Telstra DNS servers from external queries and Telstra customer connections.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">IP Connectivity seems ok.</span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ryan Crouch</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<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""> AusNOG [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean K. Finn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Brisbane Telstra DNS issues</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi is anyone else experiencing Telstra DNS issues in Brisbane?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This issue appears to be Widespread.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sean.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></div></body></html>