ADSL modem DNS failure ?

I have Telstra ADSL 2wire, lately I'm getting service 'dropping out'

earlier today, I got 'Excessive Sessions Warning'

I opened the 2wire via IP address, it claimed connection was good,

when I re-entered url, I got 'diverted' to this url: 'gateway.2wire.net',
and, got:

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Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at gateway.2wire.net.
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the modem 'home page' was NOT loading, just blank page with error

I then tried entering remote IP rather than name URL, again, I got
'diverted' to this url 'gateway.2wire.net', again, modem home page was not
loading

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ip address gives:

This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://gateway.2wire.net/xslt?PAGE=HURL07 might be
temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

Below is the original error message
Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): The server could not be found.

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but, modem home page would load via IP address


eventually, it all started working again, nothing was restarted or powered
down

what's am I getting ? DNS failure of the ADSL modem ?


I phoned Telstra to ask if service was interrupted at their end, but, all
they told me they will change ADSL from 'fast' to 'stable'




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Voytek

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