I have Verizon DSL at home since the local cable company (Patriot Media) are a bunch of dirt bags. In June, Verizon got a hold of the IP block 72.0.0.0/8 and started assigning them to it’s DSL users. This is all find and dandy, but they didn’t update the reverse dns look up stuff (the in-addr.arpa, the PTR record, you know what I’m talking about). As a result, I couldn’t use a lot of services that does reverse dns lookup (like ssh on eden), which sucks majorly. So today, around 03:00, I loose my dsl connection, which almost gave me a heart attack. After about ten minutes of trying to get back the PPPoE connection back up, I finally persuade it to come back and use the loading of google.com/ig as the smoke test. Lo and behold, Verizon got it’s act together:
I guess all the customers that complained finally got them to fix it.
If every time we lose our comcast connection we got some good news /: ) (could be the router though)
I’ve had Verizon DSL for over two years, and this IP/DNS thing has been the first problem. I don’t even get dropped connections (except for this maintenance thing).