[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird Connection problem

[Stephen Davidson]

Hi Kevin.

This is something that has been driving me up the wall.
Nothing is dieing on the traceroutes.  I can even PING
the websites/domains in question. I just can't connect
via http.  Or for that matter, telnet to port 80.

-Steve

Ward Networks wrote:

 > Swbell is have D-slam problems for over a month now on Rback3 and
 > rback13 which are core routers in the DFW area Stephen - use
 > www.traceroute.org to check back to yourself and see which router your
 > trace dies at on your different ISP connects.
 >
 > Kevin
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org] On Behalf
 > Of Alton R. Pouncey, II
 > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:58 PM
 > To: discuss at ntlug.org
 > Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Weird Connection problem
 >
 > 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
 >>
 >>
 >>