Re: Getting to publications web pages now.

[Kenneth E Tomiak]

It may have kept you busy long enough for whatever the real problem in the 
network or website was to have been fixed. Placebo effect. If you were 
unable to get to any website then the problem could have been in your set up 
or with your ISP. Beyond local, a website could be undergoing a denial of 
service attack and not all of your requests could be served. Rebooting your 
machine would do nothing to fix a DOS against some other web server. But if 
things worked afterwards, you might assume that was the cure.

On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:32:03 -0500, David Day 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I re-booted the modem, router, and PC.  Guess something had changed.  
Router supposedly has a built in firewall, but I don't understand how it would 
have let me get to some pages, and not others.  Anyway, thanks all who 
responded for the help.
>
>--Dave Day
>

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Re: Getting to publications web pages now.

[Chris Mason]

David

In other words you flicked the switch on the surge suppressor into which the 
plugs for the modem, router and PC are plugged. 


If you are having the sort of problem you described, you should have a 
procedure which is more machine-friendly that the universal re-boot 
procedure habitually described in fora such as this as the general remedy 
for all ills with the toy boxes.


One I have, which - unless someone can produce a better suggestion - ticks 
all the boxes, is to ping my name server. If this works, it means the boxes 
in my office are working, the ISP router is working and the ISP's name 
server - which may or may not be separate from the router - is working. I 
then round this off for good measure with calling up the web site of the ISP 
organisation which I assume won't be too far away from the ISP router.


If all this works, there's nothing I can do about a problem with a 
particular site - or, as would appear to be the case with IBM - a collection 
of sites.


Chris Mason

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I re-booted the modem, router, and PC.  Guess something had changed. 
Router supposedly has a built in firewall, but I don't understand how it 
would have let me get to some pages, and not others.  Anyway, thanks all 
who responded for the help.


   --Dave Day 


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Getting to publications web pages now.

[David Day]

I re-booted the modem, router, and PC.  Guess something had changed.  Router 
supposedly has a built in firewall, but I don't understand how it would have 
let me get to some pages, and not others.  Anyway, thanks all who responded for 
the help.

--Dave Day

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