On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Roger Searle<[email protected]> wrote: > Roy Britten wrote: >> >> 2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie <[email protected]>: >> >>> >>> Does this sound familiar to anyone? >>> >>> Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working >>> order and all report that they are connected to each other and the >>> internet >>> but you can't actually access anything online? >>> I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know >>> if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and >>> knows what it is. >>> >> >> Not since I switched to OpenDNS. Our D-Link router would frequently >> (~weekly) lose the plot with DNS. >> > > I've been using OpenDNS here for a few months, unfortunately our reliability > of connection via a d-link (504g) has not changed in that time. Last > occurrence just happened to be this morning. It's a random, perhaps "once a > month" kind of frequency. The pattern seems to be that it will be fine at > the end of one day, but no connectivity at the very start of the next, never > seems to happen during the work day. Pings to the internal router's address > are OK but nothing further out. Router may or may not report the external > connection is OK. > Very similar situation at home in that there is no connection - AFTER SOME > HOURS OF INACTIVITY - for example while we have been away from home for 9 or > so hours (though router, ISP, geographical location etc are all different). > I have no further clues, and just take this to be the quality of service we > have to tolerate. The fix is always the same - power down the router, wait > 10 seconds, plug back in, wait a couple of minutes, then all is well with > the world once more.
Isn't that the adsl modem doled out free/cheap by telecom? I guess you get what you pay for :) Seriously I think this sort of thing is often down to the customer equipment. If you think its down to inactivity, get your server to do some pinging once an hour via cron.
