Posted on 07/07/2007 11:10:17 AM PDT by Post-Neolithic
Back on July the 6th all of my systems that were on Comcast could not connect to most websites. I could connect to google just fine and also some smaller sites. I called around to most people I knew (on Comcast)and found they also had the same problem.
So I called Comcast and after waiting on-line for around 30 minutes, I just hung up figuring that they must be inundated with calls.
I then proceeded to do some checking on my own, I was able to ping the sites I could not connect to, but unable to do anything else(web/Mail/Telnet) etc. to these sites.
Which meant there was a routing problem, had I not talked to others in the same boat I would have assumed I had a bad router. So I instead decided to go do something and come back later.
I came back in the evening and everything was fine again. Figured it was Comcast and let it go. Today all of my sites on Speakeasy are having the same problem. the Comcast sites are fine. I did a little searching on the Internet and found this little article.
Router glitch cuts Net access Seems a lot of people were without service because of a router programming error, something which should have been caught right away with all the security in place, but for some reason never was.
With the exact same thing happening today on a different set of routers, might this not be something purposely being done by "Insert Enemy here"?
The linked story is kind of long but in a nutshell, 1 service provider sent false information from one of it's customers, and it killed the internet service for milliions of people for a few hours.
Same thing happened to me yesterday as well.
Thanks for posting
FR is set as my home page and lately, I have had problems where it will take a minute or so for the page to load.
I have high speed internet as well and I have noticed even Yahoo email was not acting right on/off this past week.
We’re doomed!
Seriously, interesting little tidbit. Sounds more like a SNAFU than anything nefarious though.
” I then proceeded to do some checking on my own, I was able to ping the sites I could not connect to, but unable to do anything else(web/Mail/Telnet) etc. to these sites.
Which meant there was a routing problem, had I not talked to others in the same boat I would have assumed I had a bad router. So I instead decided to go do something and come back later. “
If there was a routing problem you wouldn’t have been pinging anything.
How do you think the ping packets found their way back and forth?
Aer yuo logeged inn?
Dude! That link may be “Post-Neolithic” but just barely. 1997? Whatever the problem was back then I seriously doubt its relevant to your recent problems ... ;-)
I got disconnected yesterday, but I chalked it up to the storms we had, even though we didn’t lose power. Resetting the modem did the trick.
The article you linked to... was from 1997.
Those are neolithic times :)
Yes I know, just used it as a sort of reference point so to speak.
more likely your ISP uses a transparent web proxy to save bandwidth and it broke.
Actually you could still ping if the router was set-up to pass only the port that ping is using, and stop all others.
I have Comcast here in the Chicago suburbs and have been home all week on vacation. My PC has been on all day long every day and connected to the Internet so that I can check FR frequently without having to boot up each time. I haven’t had any problems at all.
ROTFL
“Actually you could still ping if the router was set-up to pass only the port that ping is using, and stop all others.”
‘ping’ is ICMP protocol 8, it doesn’t use a port.
What you’re describing is an access control list.
Very unlikely.
Could be, but found it kind of odd that Comcast did it one day, then Speakeasy the next. And not just my machines, but everyone on said ISPs
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_2002_Feb_13/ai_82851540
comcast uses caching proxy servers
Never too old to learn. Was under the assumption that all requests passed through ports.
This answers some questions for me, I thought it was my computer.
My webtv/msn mail box was down yesterday too.
Extremely rare.
By chance, was this between ~5:30 and 7 pm ET?
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