Comments on: AT&T Having DNS Issue, Or Actively Blocking Exchange?

By: Guesswho

Guesswho — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:10:33 +0000

Cannot access properly even Yahoo most viewed news and Picasa (10/4/2008).

Is there some list of DNS addresses whic I can enter manually instead of relying on their automatic DNS assignement?

ATT is pretty bad.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:26:56 +0000

Me too. I haven’t had sync access to Exchange for 3-4 days. I thought it might be because of the 2.0.1 firmware I installed on Sunday, but Apple “assured” me At&t is not tied into any firmware changes. I’ve tried everything to get to re-setup without luck. By the way, I’m in Maryland and on the consumer data plan.

By: stephen

stephen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:51:17 +0000

same here and one of my coworkers… Started about 24 hours ago and very frustrating!

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:44:45 +0000

I have yet to successfully set up Exchange on my iPhone. I’ve tried numerous different settings, and short of calling up IT and being ridiculed for owning anything Apple, I’ve just about given up. Sad seeing as it was something I’ve been looking forward to since I first purchased my iPhone in January. And yes, I’ve upgraded to the 3G iPhone.

Oh well, if it’s important, they can always call me.

By: james L

james L — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:59:29 +0000

James from New York City here. I have been showing bars all day on my phone, but i cant make any calls or texts. Big service issue going on over here.

By: Eleventeen

Eleventeen — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:56:18 +0000

I’m not having issues using Nuevasync on my iPhone, so either they’ve paid the ultra-double-secret-under the table fee or AT&T hasn’t caught on to them yet.

I don’t use AT&T DNS but I know that much of Comcast’s behind the scenes routing is done by AT&T and haven’t had an issue with that either.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:34:31 +0000

Are you effected by this “outage”?

Not to be pedantic, but it’s “affected”, not “effected”. Either way, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if AT&T tried something like this. What I don’t understand is why a filter would affect their DNS services? They can’t block everyone’s externally-facing Exchange servers via DNS, they’d have to have a list of every company’s Exchange servers, and that’s not very likely.

By: Joe Eversole

Joe Eversole — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:43:26 +0000

Me and my co-workers with 3G data cards have been having problems accessing certain sites all day. It seems to be the same sites that are inaccessible to us (slashdot, boingboing, wsj.com)