Hello Elliott,
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001, at 11:46 PM, you wrote:
> second properly-addressed attempt.
> (Oops, forgot to re-address it to the list the first time, sent it to the
> ISP)
> :)
>
> Hi, I'm new to the list and thought I'd edit and resend my last help
> request
> for my ISP to the list. Does anyone have any ideas I can pass on to my ISP
> to make service smoother?
>
> --------
>
> Over the last year or more I've been noticing increasing difficulty in
> maintaining a usable dialup connection with my ISP's servers for browsing
> (and e-mail).
>
> Most times I don't actually lose the dialup connection, but I do lose
> browsing connection to the servers in the middle of file transfers, forcing
> me to manually disconnect and redial in order to continue, sometimes
> multiple times within 5 minutes. With e-mail this also forces me to wait
> for the e-mail server to drop the previously started connection before
> retrying the message downloads (getting duplicate mails up to the point
> that the connection failed).
>
> Before their switch from another ISP server to their own servers (and a
> while after) I rarely had these problems (including the following).
>
> Another minor one which doesn't prevent me from using these online services
> is more of a nuisance (because I have to close an error message window).
> When I dialup, I get the message:
>
> "Your IP address could not be resolved, so Miami has to fall back to
> your IP address as your host name. Either your Internet Service
> Provider does not support reverse mapping of the SLIP/PPP ports,
> Or there is a problem with the DNS servers."
>
> I'm using Miami 3.2b, and the settings haven't changed (other than the DNS
> numbers and our chosen dialup username when they changed over) since
> starting internet
> service with them.
>
> Elliott Olson on A1200 040/40
>
What you experienced is a common problem on your ISP's side,
not on Miami's side. Remember, we have to work with various
vagaries: our local telephone company for dialup service, with
whom we can never trust that we will get or keep a connection,
let alone a clean connection (bless their greedy little hearts);
the servers our ISP uses (They use many, not just their own.)
and the servers with which our ISP servers must connect to reach
a URL. Now, presuming that your local phone company is not
messing things up for you, there are always the computers used
as servers which (especially if they are MS Windows NT) can
easily foul up. And, of course, since each server must be able
to contact other servers (computers), they depend on telephone
lines also, and computers.
All you can do when you see that error message is to hang up
and dial again. Been there, done that.
BTW, I am glad that Miami 3.2b is as complete as it is that
it can properly detect such problems.
Hope this helps.
Julian.
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