"Christopher J. Bosak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/09/2008 08:15:50 AM:
> I called tech support, they > said the modem was connected to their servers, and signal was > fine, but they had no idea why I didn?t have internet. They?re > supposed to send a tech out today. But, just on a hunch, I > tried to terminal service to my home computer, and the > connection is fine again. Are you sure your connection was all the way down? I was cursing my Comcast connection and started doing some testing - my internet connection was fine, Comcasts's DNS servers were just slow! I switched to OpenDNS for my DNS services, and also set up a local caching DNS server as part of my M0n0wall firewall and my internet now blazes right along. Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
