[ale] Comcast problems?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:14 -0500, George Carless wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing issues with comcast?  I'm not exactly sure 
> what's going on, but attempts to access Web pages are failing.  
> Everything appears to work fine for a few minutes, and then kaput.  The 
> slightly odd thing is that existing connections (such as the ssh session 
> from which I'm writing this email) stay up, but new connections fail.  
> It seems to be a cyclical thing, though - i.e. it'll work for a few 
> minutes, then stop working for a few, then start working again...
> 
> My first thought was that it was a DNS issue, but attempts to access 
> sites by ip address fail as well.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Or could this be a problem with my router / vonage / 
> something else?

I saw similar.  It wasn't DNS, and VPN traffic was working fine and
normal.  I suspect that the www problems were some cache/proxy issues,
perhaps CSCO was tweaking some settings or trying some new software.

-Jim P.