Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I currently get my broadband through Blueyonder in the UK. This goes > from the cable modem into my router which then distributes around the > house. > > Since about 11pm on Thursday, I've had connection problems on the > linux boxes (this email is via webmail on my RISC PC - which shows > by virtue of being able to connect to my webmail account, there is > nothing wrong with the router). > > I'm getting this > > If I use a terminal window and type > > ping ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk > > This appears > > PING ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk (146.87.55.6) 56(84) bytes of data > From 192.168.2.103 icmp_seq=0 Destination host unreachable > > And that's it. The name has been correctly resolved, but nothing else > is happening. Try traceroute ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk >From here on the Demon network, I get 1 * * * 2 thus10-hg3.kingston.broadband.bt.net (217.32.87.202) 94.640 ms 145.362 ms 170.685 ms 3 217.32.87.161 (217.32.87.161) 149.214 ms 120.117 ms 95.296 ms <snip> 13 gw-man.netnw.net.uk (194.66.25.98) 55.775 ms 95.335 ms 76.081 ms 14 hexie.memtech.salford.ac.uk (146.87.55.6) 141.959 ms 173.616 ms 116.503 ms 15 ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk (146.87.55.6) 29.146 ms 63.451 ms 31.836 ms (I'm downloading stuff at the same time, so the packets are somewhat delayed). There are a couple of things to notice here. Note that stage 14 and 15 report the same IP address but with different hostnames. I'm not sure how that's happening. It might point to oddities on the Salford network. The first "hop" reports asterisks. This happens when the router is configured not to respond to traceroute (as is the case here) or if the packets are dropped before reaching their destination. Can you also try traceroute news.bbc.co.uk to see if that is any different? It would be interesting to see if you're just having problems reaching some networks or all of them. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james@ | USER ERROR: replace user and press any key westexe.demon.co.uk | to continue.
