” 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?
Actually you could still ping if the router was set-up to pass only the port that ping is using, and stop all others.
ROTFL