additionally, it appears that Cox is doing some transparent http proxying. This ticks me off... I think I may start tunneling my http sessions.
Shannon Bill LeBlanc wrote: > Don't know how many are having a similar problem, but for the last > couple of days my web access through my firewall has been extremely > slow. Email was fast. Found out that Cox has apparently changed its > DNS search numbers. > > The new numbers I have are: > > ns.cox.net: 68.1.17.237 > ns.east.cox.net: 68.1.17.5 > > After I plugged in these numbers, all returned to the same fast access. > > By the way, trying to get these numbers from COX support is > impossible. They wouldn't give them out. had to go to: > > http://www.internic.net/whois.html > > Plug in the name COX.NET > > The program will return various information including the name servers > Cox has: > > NS.COX.NET > NS.EAST.COX.NET > NS.WEST.COX.NET > > Again plug in the name NS.COX.NET and select the button "Name Server" > to access the numbers. Then do the same for NS.EAST.COX.NET. You > will then have the two numbers for Cox DNS servers. > > Hope this helps some. I use WinProxy for my proxy software because it > has built in virus protection (by subscription) for HTTP, > FTP (Download), POP3 and SMTP. To properly use the program, I have to > plug in the DNS servers, thus the problem. > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
