At 01/06/06 23:40, Graham Smith wrote:
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:07, Simon Roberts wrote:
Frankly, I had Quest DSL about 18 months ago, and I found it utterly unreliable, but I rather assumed they'd fixed it all up by now. I never worked out what the problem was, I just went to digital cable and was happy from then on.
Sounds to me like flaky DNS servers.
To prove it get a list of the actual IP addresses of the sites you are having trouble with. Ping will return the IP address of a web site. Then try pinging the actual IP addresses of a few known sites and then try pinging them using the www address. If that fails then the DNS is at fault.
There were problems with Telstra Bigpond over here with their DNS servers for months. The solution was to disable the DNS section of the DHCP and use the IP addresses of the DNS servers of some of the other ISP's . YaST ----> Network Services ---> DNS & Hostname
We had a similar problem with ComCast a bit over a year ago, and it was their DNS servers (which they denied, but that's another story). However, that problem was getting initial name resolution so we could go anywhere at all. We pointed our router/firewall at other, non-ComCast DNS servers (we're using 4dot2dot2dot2, 64dot81dot45dot2, and 64dot81dot79dot2), and we've had no problem since. Eric Hines There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. --Bertrand Russell