What does a traceroute tell you? It's sounds like a routing issue, and
from what you said ICMP packets can find it which is a much lower on the
OSI so you might want to look at the output of tcpdump.
Sorry if that wasn't much help but that sounds like a weird issue.
Ken N
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On Sat, 27 May 2000, Roy Nix wrote:
> I have a number of lists running on Listar and they seem to run fine during
> the week, but for some reason on week ends I get connection failures unless
> I ping the server first.
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> Is this a Listar problem or a server problem? How can I get my ISP to fix
> this if this is the problem.
>
> Any advice?
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> tia
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