On Monday 16 June 2003 03:45, Stiven Andre wrote: > May be the post is OT but some weeks ago i wrote a latter about problems > connecting to rh8 httpd server that was connected by > internet zahav ADSL service. The problem was that some people simply > unable to get any response from the server. After calling the > technician support and explaining the problem they replied "We are can't > hold responsibility of your services" and told me that the user is not > offline by now with a nice "Just press a connect button when you will > get to your office tomorrow". It took about 20 minutes to proof that the > user is on line. When I asked to ping the server(ping blocked by > firewall) and support guy didn't got any response he said "if ping > doesn't get through then the machine is offline and you of course can't > connect". > I spent other 15 minutes asking him to copy/paste the IP address into > his explorer address field and try to connect to httpd. Then was a 2-3 > minutes silent and then "yep, I can connect to the service ummm...". > Neither of this helped me to get anyone who can help me with the problem > or at least tell me the email so i could send the traceroute response > that 5-10 people worldwide get when trying to connect. I doubt that > company i work for will use internet zahav in next 24 hours. >
You are correct. The morons use a misconfigured transparent proxy (something they've been scolded for repeatedly), which [I believe] [in this particular case] is also on very unfriendly terms with the closest DNS server. Been there, done that. IMO netvision is less half-assed than the rest. Lately though it looks like the entire Israeli 'net is having issues. > Best Regards. > S.A. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This mail was checked for viruses by Romat email server -- Mix Sella (well, not really but hey) This mail was checked for viruses by Romat email server ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
