carlsonjok
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Quote (midwifetoad @ Aug. 08 2009,09:33) | Quote | I think that the DNS explanation makes the most sense. A quick way to find out if your ISP's DNS servers are flaky is to use some other servers, like Open DNS. |
The reason I mentioned DNS is that my work computer exhibited this behavior a couple days ago, so I added OPEN DNS to the list, and the problem went away. The company firewall manages DNS, and it allows more than two servers.
The DSL provider is Bellsouth, which is transitioning to AT&T. Lots of weirdness happening. |
My DSL is through SBC/ATT and hasn't been perfect. I will have one instance per day where I will lose the DSL connection for 30 seconds or so. I can clearly see the lose of connection on the modem, so I have to assume it is on the provider side. That has been going on for a year or so, but isn't that problematic. This intermittent connect problem has been going on several weeks and is more annoying.
So, I installed OpenDNS and it seems to be more stable, if a little slower. But, I have water line problems that need to be attended to, so I'll have to defer giving it a more extended test run.
Thanks all for the suggestions.
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