[vox-tech] Internet Connectivity Weirdness

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Sunday 11 March 2007 09:39:29 pm Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> 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?

richard at seamus:~
$ netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

richard at seamus:~
$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:30:bd:b3:f9:2f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop
    link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0


I've got a Linksys router doing my routing for me.  :)

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