Cannot connect to any .co.uk domains

[9trRtrBotk 1]

I connect to UK AirVPN servers using OpenVPN on Arch Linux. This has been working fine since I started using it a few weeks ago. This afternoon I cannot connect to any .co.uk websites! It seems to be a DNS problem. All other top level domains that I've tried work fine. Does anyone know why this might be happening?

 

Here's the output from tcpdump when I ping www.bbc.com (works) and www.bbc.co.uk (fails to resolve):

 

# tcpdump port 53

 

15:17:31.032450 IP avocet.52048 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 10186+% [1au] A? bbc.com. (36)
15:17:31.032538 IP avocet.17492 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 15676+% [1au] AAAA? bbc.com. (36)
15:17:31.036171 IP avocet.10011 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 63580+% [1au] PTR? 1.0.4.10.in-addr.arpa. (50)
15:17:31.584933 IP avocet.62442 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 34212+% [1au] A? bbc.com. (36)
15:17:31.585083 IP avocet.35876 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 16295+% [1au] AAAA? bbc.com. (36)
15:17:31.588341 IP avocet.25942 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 47497+% [1au] PTR? 1.0.4.10.in-addr.arpa. (50)
15:17:32.137150 IP avocet.13988 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 56678+% [1au] AAAA? bbc.com. (36)

15:18:10.850090 IP avocet.42811 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 61421+% [1au] A? bbc.co.uk. (38)
15:18:10.850181 IP avocet.46206 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 23432+% [1au] AAAA? bbc.co.uk. (38)
15:18:10.894414 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.42811: 61421 4/4/9 A 212.58.244.23, A 212.58.246.78, A 212.58.244.22, A 212.58.246.79 (358)
15:18:10.894775 IP avocet.11426 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 45580+% [1au] DS? co.uk. (34)
15:18:10.897016 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.46206: 23432 0/1/1 (88)
15:18:10.940495 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.11426: 45580 0/4/1 (454)
15:18:10.940842 IP avocet.35881 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 29946+% [1au] DS? co.uk. (34)
15:18:10.985821 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.35881: 29946 0/4/1 (454)
15:18:10.986125 IP avocet.16823 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 32503+% [1au] DS? co.uk. (34)
15:18:11.030849 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.16823: 32503 0/4/1 (454)
15:18:11.031083 IP avocet.33598 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 25902+% [1au] DS? co.uk. (34)
15:18:11.076916 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.33598: 25902 0/4/1 (454)
15:18:11.077106 IP avocet.36047 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 64521+% [1au] DS? co.uk. (34)
15:18:11.121208 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.36047: 64521 0/4/1 (454)
15:18:11.121440 IP avocet.59665 > 10.4.0.1.domain: 55599+% [1au] DS? co.uk. (34)
15:18:11.165596 IP 10.4.0.1.domain > avocet.59665: 55599 0/4/1 (454)

 

Edit: if I disconnect from the vpn the problem disappears.

[zhang888 1067]

You can see from here:

https://airvpn.org/routes/?q=www.bbc.co.uk

 

That all servers can resolve it.

 

Please post the output of:

dig +trace a bbc.co.uk

[9trRtrBotk 1]

It just started working again!

 

Thanks for pointing out the routes page, I didn't know about that.