Are you sure your server is actualy supposed to respond to the traceroute?
Maybe the problem is on the clients side in stead of on the server side and
it just looks like it's a server problem due to the traceroute?
Nico
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Charles Galpin wrote:
> I'm hoping some of you network guru's will find an interest in this very
> strange (IMHO) problem.
>
> I have a linux box connected to the net via DSL (768/768) w/ a static IP.
> It had been running perfectly for months before my problems started
> sometime friday.
>
> I host some virtual domains which get http/ftp/smtp traffic, but none of
> it is high volume. Lately I have really just been telneting in to read my
> mail. What has been happening is that the conenction seems to be ok for
> very brief periods (in the order of seconds to a few minutes), with longer
> periods of no conenctivity inbetween (seems like a few minutes to as many
> as 10-15 minutes).
>
> When this happens, I run traceroute and see that the trace makes it
> successfully to the dsl gateway - the last hop before my box. When I
> called my ISP, they said everything was fine on their end and that it must
> be a line problem, and to call GTE who provides the DSL line and service,
> but not my internet access. Somebody came out to look at it last night,
> but I'm having the same problems today, and they never called to tell me
> they did/did not find a problem, or that they fixed it.
>
> BUT HERE IS THE KICKER.
>
> Whenever I am at home (evenings and thsi weekend) I don't see any
> problems. The connection seems fine. So this morning, I kicked off a
> download (happened to be caldera openlinuc iso :)) to test my theory that
> things work fine from the inside, and sure enough, I'm 120MB into the
> download and the connection has been up the whole time! It feels like my
> good old connection I have come to love.
>
> So, other than downloading openlinux in a while(1) loop :) does nayone
> have any suggestions to figure out what's wrong here
>
> ifconfig shows no errors on the interface.
>
> The only change of recent that I can think of is that I added another
> virtual domain last week, and added support for mail and web for it. Can't
> see how that could have broken things, but maybe someone can tell me?
>
> sorry this is so long
>
> charles
>
>
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