[ale] can't reach sites using DSL

[Jim Philips]

So, why I am I hitting these bottlenecks when other Mindspring users are
not? Any ideas on that? I posted the same original question to the
Mindspring Linux newsgroup and the only response I got so far was "I can
reach those sites. No problem." So, I am reaslly puzzled as to why I
seem to be the only person suffering from this. Although, your
explanation seems plausible, because my traceroutes are all doing the
same thing and tweaking my settings has no effect on the problem
whatsoever.


On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 15:45, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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
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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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