No problems accessing www.cisco.com as of 1:30 P.M (PST) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mask Of Zorro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:12 PM Subject: RE: Cisco > If Cisco's web site were down, such that nobody could access it, you would > probably be better off going to CNN.COM to find out why rather than > GROUPSTUDY.COM. > > Cisco's site being totally inaccessible would be a significant news event, > given the nature of the site and the efforts that Cisco has made to make the > service fault tolerant. > > If you can't get to a web site of a major vendor, the problem is probably > yours (unless the vendor is Microsoft - but there again, CNN.COM...). Start > with ping, traceroute, nslookup, maybe a sniffer, examine your access-lists > or firewall rules for recent changes, etc. > > One "is it down" and 2 dozen "works for me" messages still won't get you to > the site... When troubleshooting any problem, it is a good idea to try the > easy things first. It is not a good idea, however, to do the lazy things > first (or ever). > > Z > > > >From: Ole Drews Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Ole Drews Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "'Bradley J. Wilson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cisco > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: Cisco > >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:41:51 -0600 > > > >Actually, if you suspected your ISP's DNS to be invalid, you could use > >someone else's. For example go to Network Solutions website and do a who-is > >lookup on a known site, and then copy their two name servers to your own > >setup and see if that would fix the problem. > > > >You could even do a who-is lookup on cisco.com and see that they are using > >ns1.cisco.com and ns2.cisco.com. Then do a nslookup, followed by a server > >ns1.cisco.com, followed by a cisco.com that would give you > > > > Name : cisco.com > > Address : 198.133.219.25 > > > >Then exit nslookup and try to ping 198.133.219.25. > > > >If that goes through okay, and your ping www.cisco.com doesn't - you know > >you have a DNS problem somewhere. > > > >Hth, > > > >Ole > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Ole Drews Jensen > > Systems Network Manager > > CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I > > RWR Enterprises, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.CiscoKing.com > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > NEED A JOB ??? > > http://www.oledrews.com/job > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Bradley J. Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:12 PM > >To: cisco > >Subject: Re: Cisco > > > > > >One reason why someone might post such a question to a newsgroup is to help > >troubleshoot DNS problems. If other users (like the majority of us, it > >seems) can get to the website and he (the original poster) could not, that > >might point to a problem with his ISP's DNS server being out of sync. > > > >Or it could be a problem with reachability at the IP layer, but again, he > >would have no way of knowing if it was just him who was having the problem, > >or everybody. If the Cisco web server is down, then everyone would be > >having the same problem and there's little he can do. If it's just him, > >then he would know that it's time to get on the phone with his ISP. > > > >Either way, such posts are valid, imo. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Howard C. Berkowitz > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:22 PM > >Subject: Re: Cisco > > > > > > >Hi. > > > > > >Can anybody try to access cisco web site ?????? > > >I think that their site is down. I am trying to access their web site > >from > > >last 1 hour... Please check it and response me as soon as possible. > > > > > >Tazad > > > > > >Why do you think it is down? What do your pings and traceroutes show? > > > >How would the information that I can or cannot reach it be helpful to > >you? If you've done enough troubleshooting to think the problem is > >at your end -- and I would hope anyone on this list would do so -- > >aren't you just going to keep retrying? > > > >_________________________________ > >FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: > >http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > >Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >_________________________________ > >FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: > >http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > >Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >_________________________________ > >FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: > >http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > >Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > _________________________________ > FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html > Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________ FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
