Comcast DNS down again tonight WOW

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One thing you might want to do is keep a list of open proxy servers to use when it does happen, just configure your browser to use those proxy servers. When the DNS servers go on the fritz, that is the only way to get the Web. It wont work, however, with Usenet, IRC, or anything that cannot be stuffed down an HTTP proxy server. Stayinvisible is down, but you can find a lot of open proxies at

Thanks but fortunately I never switched back to Comcast DNS nameservers. I never noticed an issue tonight until I read it in some other forums. I think I'm gonna stick with either some ORSC Public access DNS ones or just use some other ones that are available(Speakeasy, Level3, etc). That way I don't need to even use Proxy servers. I am reading the Comcast is now populating DHCP resolution with more than their normal two DNS servers.

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Comcast must have a number of open Socks proxies. Some guys that use IRC to do live commentary from figure skating competitions are often bouncing off open proxies on the Comcast network. A lot of these proxies, especially the Socks ones, are apparently using ports other then 23 or 1080, so they are slipping under the radar for the time being.

Set up a local caching server.

Near all legit sites with a good admin will block your "up" stuff, e.g. comment posting, feedback posting, anything involved with posting.

A famous example: Slashdot

Why? Spammers use them :) I mean take advantage of them

Also if I was a clever crook, I'd open a proxy on purpose to entire net, wait for unsuspecting ones (those doesn't use https) come by. Harvest all...

While I report spam via spamcop, I see amazing tricks being done so I wouldn'T be surprised at all.

Ilgaz Ocal

it's not outages, it's scheduled maintenance over and over and over........

That was when Comcast was changing service from 3mbs to 4 mbs and 6mbs if you pay an extra $10.00 a month.