[ale] DNS problems with comcast, anyone?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 07:18 pm, Alexander Barton wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > I'm having name resolution problems at home, and I was wondering if it
> > was my router, or my ISP (Comcast).  Is anyone else having this problem?
>
> Maybe not the same problem you're seeing, but COMCAST's DNS server seems
> to be really slow.  Like, by the time their server responds back to my
> machine, often it's already timed out and into its second try.  (I glean
> this by watching the net traffic through my firewall.)

Aha.  That sounds familiar.  I don't have a firewall I can watch the traffic 
from, but I bet that's it.  Thanks.

> And, now, as of last weekend actually, COMCAST has no reverse DNS lookup
> for my machine.  So ftp.cc.gatech.edu won't let me in.  Grrr.

ftp.ale.org has almost everything I want, anyway.  

Michael