[vox-tech] Internet Connectivity Weirdness

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us
Sun Mar 11 21:39:29 PDT 2007


Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Over the past few days, I've been unable to reach my work website, 
> http://www.extensiondlc.net, from home.  I can reach just about every other 
> website in the world just fine; it's just that one (and its various 
> subdomains) that are causing the problems.  Furthermore, I can reach the 
> host, http://whsecure.net, just fine, but no subdomains.  This problem is 
> only happening at home.
> 
> When I try traceroute from any of the computers on my network, I get this:
> 
> richard at seamus:~
> $ traceroute extensiondlc.net
> traceroute to extensiondlc.net (66.232.56.196), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1 * * *
>  2 * * *
>  3 * * *
>  4 * * *
> ...
> 30 * * *
> 
> I get the same output no matter which site I try to traceroute to.
> 
> In my experience, if I get timeouts at every instance in a traceroute, it 
> means my connection is down; yet, as I mentioned, I can get to just about 
> everywhere on the web except for that one domain just fine.
> 
> I have already contacted my DSL provider, who insisted (naturally) that 
> nothing was wrong, and that they could not escalate my call.
> 
> Can anyone offer some insight?\

What is the output of

   netstat -nr

and

   ip link

from your home machines? Also, what is doing the routing for your
home network? One of your linux boxes, or a commercial router?


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