[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird Connection problem

[Alton R. Pouncey, II]

Can you traceroute to these sites?  Can you successfully telnet to port
80 on these sites?  If you can telnet to port 80 and do a GET then http
connections should work.

Alton

On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 17:46, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I am having a weird problem where about 1/3 of the sites I try to visit (http) fail to connect.  I am using a couple of ISPs, so the problem is not
> that one can't connect.  The really weird thing is that I can ping them.  Any suggestions on where to look?
> Sites affected include;
> http://www.epicrealm.com
> http://www.zdnet.com
> http://www.ananova.com
> 
> Netscape 6.2.2
> Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
> Suse 7.3
> 
> ISPs
> Qwest
> Earthlink
> ISPWest
> 
> 
> 
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