[ale] can't reach sites using DSL

[James P. Kinney III]

This happens when a major fiber bundle gets whacked by a backhoe and the
routing hasn't caught up yet. 

It seems that the longer a fiber section is up and running with no
problem, the longer an alternative route takes to appear if the fiber
goes down. Has Cisco added a neural-net "feature" to their routers that
rate a connection based on uptime and traffic flow? It sort of seems
like a good idea for rapidly sending traffic on it's way when things are
good. But unless it retains a "memory" of alternates for _when_ things
break, it would take longer to repair routing tables.

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 15:37, Jim Philips wrote:
> My results are below. When I do a traceroute to any of these IP
> addresses, I hit a hop where I only get "* * * * " and the trace goes no
> further. Mindspring says all of this is happening beyond their network.
> But it seems odd to me that a whole group of unlrealted sites would
> suddenly become inaccessible to me.
> 
> with the DNS servers
> On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 10:52, Mike Millson wrote:
> > 1) Try accessing the sites by IP numbers.
> > 2) Ping the sites and see if you get the IP numbers listed below that I got.
> > 
> > my.weather.com = 63.111.5.5 Netscape says "connection refused"
> > my.monster.com = 63.112.169.4 Never loaded
> > www.dvdovernight.com = 216.158.44.21 Never loaded
> > www.suntrust.com = 129.33.63.122 Never loaded
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Mike Millson
> > ----------------------------------------
> > AableTech Solutions, Inc.
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> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Philips [mailto:jcphil at mindspring.com]
> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:40 AM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: [ale] can't reach sites using DSL
> > 
> > 
> > For weeks now, I haven't been able to reach some sites that I used to
> > visit all of the time. Some of those sites are:
> > 
> > http://my.weather.com
> > http://my.monster.com
> > http://www.dvdovernight.com
> > http://www.suntrust.com
> > 
> > This all happened after I upgraded to RedHat 7.2. Most sites load as fas
> > as they always did. I have tried changing MTU and RWIN to no effect. The
> > attistude of Earthlink support seems to be "Yeah, we'll get back to you
> > on that later". I am looking for a few more things to try before I give
> > up on Mindspring/Earthlink altogether. Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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