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Author Topic: Billion router web site  (Read 1273 times)

Octal

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Billion router web site
« on: September 29, 2020, 08:49:51 AM »

Is anyone else having a problem connecting with the Billion web site? I'm getting server not found the only one I can connect to is this one.

https://uk.billion.com/

I wanted to update the firmware but that link is broken:

http://www.billion.uk.com/esupport/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/428/119/latest-bipac-8800nl-r2-firmware-252d15

I hope they haven't gone out of business  :(
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2020, 09:48:53 AM »

DNS: there’s an A record for uk.billion.com which is 223.27.48.97.

Ping to it fails, but that doesn’t mean too much. Trying to connect to port 80, there is an http server there. But trying to talk to port 443 for TLS / https, that just times out. So it seems that there is a misconfigured web server there, or else the A record is wrong.

However, trying to resolve billion.uk.com just gives me nothing in the DNS. There is a record for www.billion.uk.com which is just a CNAME to billion.uk.com which seems to not exist. That was using my own usual DNS servers. So I got the same as you, I suspect.

Now it gets weirder. Using the DNS server 1.1.1.1, resolving billion.uk.com does give an answer: an A record pointing to 217.194.215.4

So it seems the DNS is inconsistent. Someone has changed something and the results haven’t propagate through, or who knows what?
« Last Edit: September 29, 2020, 10:13:37 AM by Weaver »
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2020, 10:23:30 AM »

both URLs are working fine for me
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2020, 10:28:35 AM »

Would someone else also try this?
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2020, 10:29:18 AM »

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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2020, 10:30:16 AM »

Both working here
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2020, 10:35:22 AM »

It was down earlier, but now all ok :fingers:
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2020, 11:07:48 AM »

Could the OP and I have been experiencing the result of negative caching? The negative caching timeout is 86400 s, if I am reading it correctly.
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2020, 11:25:31 AM »

That's interesting, I can open the site on my mobile phone via 4G but not via PlusNet.

I got switched over to FTTC yesterday, I'm wondering if that is something to do with and it's possible if I wait the block might be released at some point.
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2020, 11:33:50 AM »

I just tried a traceroute and it doesn't seems to exist

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paul@paul-PC-X010801:~$ mtr --report billion.uk.com
mtr: Failed to resolve host: billion.uk.com: No address associated with hostname
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2020, 11:54:54 AM »

I've managed to download the file and put it into my Dropbox so I can access it, it's still strange about the web sites though. Thanks for those that have replied, it seems to be my issue if no one else is getting it.
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2020, 12:05:31 PM »

Can reach both urls here.   I'm with PN too.
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2020, 12:20:23 PM »

@octal no, I saw the same as you. I’m agreeing with you - it just seems to be a very inconsistent state of affairs amongst caching dns resolvers if I’m seeing this correctly.
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2020, 12:22:44 PM »

The answer (from my ISP, AA):

billion.uk.com's dns is looking broken - the name servers (as per whois) are:

 Name Server: NS1.BILLION.UK.COM
 Name Server: NS2.BILLION.UK.COM

but, when you query them, the response saying the NS is actually a different set of nameservers:

 ns1.hostinguk.net. and ns2.hostinguk.net.

If you query ns1 or ns2.hostinguk.net for A records for billion.uk.com, then the A record is not returned. These nameservers are broken.

Seems Billion need to fix their DNS...
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Re: Billion router web site
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2020, 12:28:36 PM »

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