netskier wrote:The Seahawks. Net name servers seem to be down right now, but the site has been working for me all day using Tapatalk on my phone.
The Seahawks.NET name servers all being down at the same time (there are 5 of them reporting at any given time from geographically distinct locations) is HIGHLY unlikely. Not impossible, but damned close to it. On top of that, our name servers being down, if that were even a reality, wouldn't cause the issue you're both reporting unless they were all down for extended periods of time and their records were expunged from the root servers.
The way that name lookup works, is your local machine first queries it's own hosts file for resolution. It then contacts the DNS servers that it knows about (your ISP DNS servers) in succession. Your ISP's DNS servers either have the server(s) you're looking for cached, or they ask the DNS server(s) that they know about in succession. Your client never directly queries the Seahawks.NET name servers in any way.
A much more likely scenario when there are DNS query errors, is that your ISP is having a DNS server issue, or there is a DNS cache corruption, which would explain why your computer would not work, yet your phone would. Different DNS servers being used.
One way to help alleviate this problem would be to add a tertiary DNS server to your list of usable servers, and add a public DNS server (
http://public-dns.tk/nameserver/us.html) as a last resort. The problem with this is, most Microsoft clients (Windows) are horrible at traversing a list of multiple usable DNS servers and may still fail if the first on the list reports and error or times out.