[Techtalk] Internet connection weirdness

[Beth Johnson]

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 22:08, Erin Raasch wrote:
(Stuff about a Slack install not loading web pages, but a SUSE install
doing fine...)
 [Ack, do you have a wrap set?  I get one line per paragraph in the reply.] 
> traceroute to madison.com (64.73.25.70), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  1 ms  1 ms  1 ms
<snip>
>  6  msfc-a2-core1.binc.net (64.73.0.2)  27 ms  25 ms  26 ms
>  7  * * *
>  8  * * *
>  9  * * *
> 
> 
> traceroute to 64.73.25.70 (64.73.25.70), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  3 ms  1 ms  1 ms
<snip>
>  6  msfc-a2-core1.binc.net (64.73.0.2)  24 ms  29 ms  24 ms
>  7  * * *
>  8  * * *
>  9  * *

The sites with the asteriks are probably set to not report traceroute
information.  This isn't uncommon.

Do you have DNS server addresses set up in your Slack install?
Did your ISP's DNS servers go down?  Is their information stale?

regards,
Beth
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