About that bad DNS nonsense that's supposed to be going around . . . .

. . . . I had to deal with it today. Or if not it, then something similar.

I have business class FIOS service. Static IP address. Everything was dandy today until about noon when we lost all outside connectivity. I called Verizon.

The tech went through the usual router-rebooting-pinging-log-in-to-the-router-and-check-this-and-that. Nada.

He then said they had been having issues with several of their DNS addresses (servers?). He had me change my DNS server from what it had been to a special "test" address. I am not sure, but I think it was 4.4.4.0. Or maybe 4.4.2.4. Or something similar with all single digit numbers.

Bingo. Connectivity!

Too bad it was not an allowed number for anything but testing.

He checked with the next tier of service and they gave him a new DNS for me to use. I entered thast into my router, saved it all and Bam! Connected.

It seems FIOS has been handling a lot of this sort of thing. I never did get an answer (that I could understand) from the tech as to what was causing it all.

I think this was related to the thing/virus/bug/whatever that everyone is worried about right now, but not sure.