If this happens again  (I almost think it's happened before, but resolved
itself), I'l have to try some of your thoughts and see what happens!

Thanks!
Levi

On 5/17/06, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> See bottom of message
>
> Levi Smith wrote:
>> OK, Something is REALLY messed up here....
>> I rebooted the router, modem.  No change...
>>
>> I went up front and tried another computer.  No problem... What???
>> So I said, well let's just try reboots on these computers.  The problem
is
>> gone...
>>
>> What the heck is going on??
>> This was two completely different computers.  One with Linux, one with
>> Windows, in both IE and Firefox.
>> They both stopped working at the same time...
>> Only via http to a single site...
>>
>> Man, computers suck.  (:
>>
>> Levi (:
>>
>> On 5/17/06, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Levi Smith wrote:
>>>> Not that I know of.  I am the IT department for about 12 computers
that
>>>> make
>>>> up our network.  I haven't touched our Linksys router or the DSL
modem
>>>> (seemingly the only things that would affect all the computers at
>>> once),
>>> it
>>>> was working this morning, and then it wasn't.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and one other tidbit.  It does on a RARE occasion actually come
>>>> through.  (like 1 out of 20 or more times), but it's dead again by
the
>>> time
>>>> I can try another page...
>>>>
>>>> I may try rebooting the router and modem just to see if it makes a
>>>> difference...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Levi
>>>>
>>>> On 5/17/06, Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Proxy server ?
>>>>> Firewall ?
>>> Your ISP may be running a caching proxy without you knowing it. There
>>> are some ISPs that do this so they can claim "faster" Internet access.
>>> If it has a problem, you have a problem. Call them and ask them
directly.
>>>
>>> Also, I have occasionally had problem with my Linksys router (WRT54G)
>>> where if I have something like bittorrent running on the inside, even
if
>>> it's throttled, will slow down tremendously. I think it has problems
>>> with the routing table when there are a lot of connections. A power
>>> cycle will usually clear it up.
>>>
>>> Gus
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
> <aside>
> I think there were 2 separate top-posters in this thread which makes it
> hard to follow the history, *and* perhaps a good example of why
> bottom-posting is generally recommended on technical mailing lists.
> </aside>
>
> ..anyway, might this be something like a stale (incorrect) internal
> routing cache on both linux & windows boxes. How could that have
> happened -- well, maybe there was a change to internal routing or
> nameserver setup during the experience? I donno - does anyone know:
> could an external routing/dns switchover show up as this symptom?
>
> (I presume the actual destination itself didn't change IP address, or
> you would have probably mentioned that.)
>
> It may have been /interesting/ to do some command line pings to IPs and
> DNS-names when the symptom existed to see what kind of error you got --
> "unknown host", "destination unreachable", "no route to host", ..?
>
> On a linux box route -nC or route -C may have been informative.
>
> The command
>   ip route flush cache
> might be worth a try if you see this again.  Seems like there should be
>  a way to do that in windows, too?
>
> If that were to fix the problem, it would be nice to compare the data
> shown by "route -C" from before and after.
>

hmmm, I guess I neglected to say that if internal routing or nameserving
were the problem, then a dhcp lease renewal would probably be just as
effective as reboot.

..jim


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