[ale] can't reach sites using DSL

[David Corbin]

You are not alone (entirely).  I just installed DSL (Bellsouth), and 
while some sites work fine, others (espn.com, msn.com (no kvetching-- I 
don't use it), weather,com, towerrecords.com) don't  come up 
*completely*.  I get a partial page, but it's obvious that some of the 
image links are not getting downloaded.  If I switch back to my 
cable-modem (drop the ethernet, start dhcp), I continue to have 
problems.  But, if I reboot, and bring up the cable-modem without bring 
up DSL, I have no problem whatsoever with these sites.

Any suggestions are welcome.


On my cable-modem, 2 of the 4 sights you sight "fail" with traceroute, 
but they all succeed when I browse them via the web they work.  

I think that more and more companies are blocking ICMP packets, I assume 
as a method of defeating DOS attacks, but I think it sucks.  Makes it 
very hard to "debug" networking problems.

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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