Michael Lynch wrote:
>
> Neil,
> Could you explain to me a little more about these various issues that
> you have with Cox.
> It seems to me that after I configured a static IP it worked for a
> little while then it stopped working,
> I waited a little while longer and voila its working again.
> Does this cause any connection problems to any site you may be
> running?
When I go to another page on a web site and get an error in my browser
that says something like "host not found" I know their DNS has likely
failed. It comes back a few minutes later. As someone else suggested,
when you can't get out, first ping the gateway, which is their
head-end router. If you can ping that, then you are getting out. Then
try pinging their DNS servers. If you can reach both of them, then the
problem is local. If you can't then their DNS server is down. You can
also ping an IP address that you know outside their network to make
sure their gateway is working. Sometimes I use traceroute to an
external IP that I know to find out if they're having connectivity
issues.
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