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Old 03-03-2008, 00:40   #11
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Re: Dropouts in web access to JANET and BBC...

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Originally Posted by danmed View Post
As techguy4 said, try those DNS settings. i have had similar problems recently but with a wider range of sites randomly not being accessible.. OpenDNS did the trick for me and everything has been fine since (changed over on wednesday or thursday of last week)
Check the post.

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During the affected interval I can SSH to the web server I run at my University, I can login, monitor the logs and watch the web server serving requests from elsewhere across JANET and around the world. I can ping www.bbc.co.uk.

So basic network connectivity seems to be OK, the web servers are up and working. It's just port 80 traffic between them and my cable modem which is being affected. And I reiterate, other web sites I frequent hosted elsewhere around the world work fine during these periods.
Unless he is ssh'ing to the IP address (thus bypassing DNS altogether) then it is NOT a DNS issue. Switching to OpenDNS will not help.

Also, from the second post reporting problems with JANET:

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Using a different DNS server or IP addresses does not change matters (on both occasions the primary VM DNS server was a non-responsive destination)
So, using Open DNS would not help.
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