comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Frank DiPrete
Hello All, Once again I am experiencing a routing problem on Comcast. Today I discovered that I cannot reach linuxquestions.org. My router is returning max hops exceeded. I'm trying to figure out if it is a comcast problem, a qwest problem, or a specific comcast problem after my super terrific

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread kenta
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Frank DiPrete wrote: > > Hello All, > > Once again I am experiencing a routing problem on Comcast. > Today I discovered that I cannot reach linuxquestions.org. > > My router is returning max hops exceeded. I'm trying to figure out if it > is a comcast problem, a qwe

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread roger . levasseur
Message - From: "kenta" To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2009 8:25:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: comcast routing problems On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Frank DiPrete wrote: > > Hello All, > > Once again I am e

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Michael ODonnell
It pains me to say anything that appears to cut ComCast any slack because I have no love for them whatsoever but, FWIW, I'm seeing essentially the same traceroute output reported by Kenta: e521:~ 395---> traceroute linuxquestions.org | lineup traceroute to linuxquestions.org (75.126.1

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Frank DiPrete wrote: > My router is returning max hops exceeded. *Your* router is returning that? If so, something's wrong on your router. TTL (Time To Live) is a counter. Every router hop, it gets decreased by one. If it hits zero, that router sends a ICMP "

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
Every once in a while Comcast will change DNS servers. I generally set up my /etc/resolv.conf with my router as the primary: nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 68.87.71.230 nameserver 68.87.73.242 This is assuming your system uses a static IP. I use a static IP since I like to ssh into it. If you a

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Frank DiPrete
Looks like this is a specific routing problem on my subnet's path. I just can't wait to talk to comcast about it. (by that I mean not) Michael ODonnell wrote: > > It pains me to say anything that appears to cut ComCast any slack > because I have no love for them whatsoever but, FWIW, I'm seeing

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Frank DiPrete
Yes, my router is returning a hop count exceeded. There isn't much I can do about it. all of my traffic is sent to a dr assigned by dhcp. I have seen this sort of problem before when a router somewhere in the isp is configured incorrectly. Over-lapping other people's assigned IP address range

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Frank DiPrete
well Ben is of course right. I found the routing problem. ip classless was not turned on. after turning it on the route to 75.126.162.205 from 75.69.253.xxx/22 works. Thanks for the help! Ben Scott wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Frank DiPrete wrote: >> My router is returning max hop

Re: comcast routing problems

2009-11-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Frank DiPrete wrote: > Yes, my router is returning a hop count exceeded. > There isn't much I can do about it. all of my traffic is sent to a dr > assigned by dhcp. If it really is *your* router that's generating the Time Exceeded message, then you're the *only*