[ale] Re: Anyone having problems with comcast now?

[H. A. Story]

Humm,

Would the DNS sever cause this problem?
I changed to Bellsouth recently.  I noticed that one of the DNS servers 
is actually a caching DNS server. Hosts that are actually dynamic will 
get a seemingly a old stale IP address.  I have not change back to check 
and see if the DNS has updated yet. That was last weekend.

Adrin
P.S.  You may also begin to wonder about ARP tables.

Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:47 -0500, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 
>>On Apr 1, 2005 11:20 AM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Apr 1, 2005 10:58 AM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm having trouble at home, and I wonder if it is a comcast problem.
>>>>I can only get to google on the web.  I can't get to cnn, slashdot,
>>>>xilinx, or even comcast.net.
>>>
>>>Hmm.  My laptop is okay.  I've rebooted my router, and then my
>>>computer, but I'm still having this trouble.
>>>
>>>What can cause this?  Ping works, and I can make TCP connections, but
>>>I can't get much data through them.  wget hangs, and so does my mail
>>>reader.
>>
>>That was really weird.  My laptop (wireless) and another computer
>>(wired) both worked, but my desktop did not.  I rebooted it and the
>>router and it was still broken.  I could ping and make connections,
>>but I couldn't read any websites except ones on google, localhost, and
>>the router.  I couldn't get mail, either.
>>
>>I went to lunch and there musta have been a power outage as the
>>computers were all off (except the laptops, of course).  When I booted
>>my main system it worked fine!
>>
>>I don't have the faintest idea what could have been wrong.  Surreal.
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>I don't have the faintest idea what
> 
> 
> That sounds similar to an experience I had several months ago. An issue
> that was never resolved, I might add.
> 
> The story goes ...
> 
> Sys #1;
> I have 2 NICs; 1 on-board and 1 off-board. ( The on-board NIC was
> offline due to driver issues) 
> 
> This computer was connecting to Comcast via a Linux firewall/router box
> (Sys #2) and for testing purposes, I removed Sys#2 and connected Sys#1
> directly to the internet. Everything was fine until I finally got the
> on-board NIC working. 
> 
> Using the on-board NIC, I was unable to connect to Google.com, Sun.com
> and several other sites. So I an "ifdown" on-board and "ifup" off-board
> and everything worked fine. This prompted a call to Comcast to solve the
> issue, but we could not. They insisted it was "spyware." I also e-mailed
> Google, as they have been known to block certain Comcast customers. That
> was a dead end.
> 
> This issue was never resolved, and sounds interestingly similar to your
> problem.
> 
> rcr
> 
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