Since my NAT/Firewall doesn't so much want to automatically get the DNS servers that Mediacom assigns to me, I've been using other ones (the old ISP that I had), and apprently they stopped supporting external requests...
It took me a while to figure that out, but when I was able to vpn to work and all worked fine it dawned on me.
So I was looking on mediacom's site for a list of dns servers...I didn't find any so I went with my old boss's place of work.
So you mediacom workers I know...lemme know so I can just set that up and stop pilfering dns service that I'm not paying for...