[NTLUG:Discuss] No return packets from wellsfargo.com

[Courtney Grimland]

Dave Augustus wrote:

>OK Folks- I am going bald over this one. Any ideas?
>
I just wanted to say that I have very much the same problem.  I don't 
know exactly when, but sometime during the last year I quit getting any 
response from their website when I'm at home.  I know it used to work.  
Traceroutes and pings get nothing, not even my ISP's router, so I 
figured the ISP was blocking ICMP and I never spent any more time on it.

The only helpful information I have is that once, when I plugged a 
computer into my cable modem that was not my normal router (i.e. a 
different MAC address) I got an IP address assigned to it that was in a 
completely different network (none of the octets were the same) than the 
one I normally get with my router.  Probably related to the many changes 
of @Home->attbi->Comcast.  When that happened, the Wells Fargo website 
responded normally.  And when I plugged my router back into the cable 
modem, I got my old IP address back and Wells Fargo wasn't working 
anymore.  Maybe someone somewhere (Comcast?  Wells Fargo?) has 
black-listed an address block?  I dunno.

It's never been that big of a deal to me so I never spent any further 
time trying to resolve the problem.