University of the South Pacific, which runs the DNS servers, [1] is up.
Google's DNS server at 8.8.8.8 is having problems.
Lookup using DNS server of sonic.net, which is a normal DNS server.
nslookup usp.ac.fj
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: usp.ac.fj
Address: 144.120.141.80
Lookup with Google DNS: nslookup
> server 8.8.8.8
Default server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
> usp.ac.fj
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
** server can't find usp.ac.fj: SERVFAIL
Checking example.com to make sure Google DNS server is live. > example.com
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: example.com
Address: 93.184.216.34
Name: example.com
Address: 2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946
Also fails with 1.1.1.1 DNS server.The Fiji DNS servers are unreachable, but you can get as far as a router at the University of the South Pacific. So the problem is local to there.
traceroute 144.120.146.1
traceroute to 144.120.146.1 (144.120.146.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
...
8 AARNET-PTY.edge5.London1.Level3.net (217.163.113.74) 274.795 ms 274.476 ms 273.781 ms
9 xe-0-0-0.pe1.a.suv.aarnet.net.au (113.197.15.213) 312.534 ms 311.764 ms 311.766 ms
10 fastethernet0-0.aarnie.usp.ac.fj (202.158.204.194) 313.356 ms 312.176 ms 312.363 ms
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[1] https://www.usp.ac.fj/