Google DNS blocking domain

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Google DNS servers are blocking the realmacsoftware.com domain. Just thought you should all know if you use that as your DNS server. Issue was driving me crazy for the past 3 days.

Someone at RealMacSoftware might want to investigate why they are being blocked by Google for DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

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working fine for me here in eastern US

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I live in Australia and havenā€™t been able to connect to the realmacsoftware.com site for nearly a week. I thought that it must be a temporary problem on their end, but when it persisted I used a VPN to move my IP address to the UK and it worked fine. I then changed it the the USA and it also works fine. But if I try to connect ā€˜nativelyā€™ then I get a ā€˜canā€™t find serverā€™ error. It does appear that the DNS servers are blocking the site.

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Yes, the (Google) name servers 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 are currently failing to resolve (non-recursively) realmacsoftware.com to its IP.

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 realmacsoftware.com A +norecurse +m
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 2701
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;realmacsoftware.com. IN A
;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 2 03:09:24 2016
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 37

Some of my devices using Google to resolve name queries are also having difficulty accessing RealMacā€™s site.

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Had same problem, tried a few different DNS, this one works (for me at least)

comodo works for me:
8.26.56.26
8.20.247.20

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OpenDNS is also very reliableā€¦

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Down for me on Googleā€™s DNS servers as well. Has been for a while now. Had to switch to my ISPā€™s own DNS servers to get here to post.

//cc: @dan

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Wonā€™t work either where Iā€™m at (s. Interior BC, Canada), comodo.com as pointed out above does wor:
8.26.56.26
8.20.247.20

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Has anyone PMā€™d or emailed Dan?

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They know about it, we were talking with @LaPan on Joeā€™s weekly hangout yesterday about it.

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Good. Thanks, Rob!

Google can be fickle: for over a year (maybe two) I was getting a failure in Safari when performing searches.

Eventually it got fixed - no word, acknowledgement or explanationā€¦