<div dir="ltr"><div>Just for fun I looked up century link's primary dns address, pointed nslookup to it as the server, and I was able to resolve <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> just fine. <br><br></div>It seems to me that it would be extremely odd for a company to block a route to a destination rather than simply block it from dns. So I am slightly suspicious that the culprit is century link here.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:26 AM, David Wagle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.wagle@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.wagle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>What do you mean by "can't even be reached?" <br><br></div>Is it not responding to a ping? Or are you trying to go there in a browser? It won't show up in a browser as it's not a web server, it is a public nameserver.<br>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:33 AM, gregrwm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tclug1@whitleymott.net" target="_blank">tclug1@whitleymott.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>> change your nameserver to 8.8.8.8<br>
> you'll have no trouble finding google ever again.<br>
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</div>nice idea but it seems to be a connectivity issue, 8.8.8.8 can't even<br>
be reached, so trying to use it for nameservice just puts dns out of<br>
reach also.<br>
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