Hi,
I'm on NTL's 2Mbit service in Cambridge (CB5), and in recent months I've had what looks like strange routing problems when trying to get to news.claranews.com.. Sometimes connections are fine, and other times I get nothing.. well, apart from 'Destination host unreachable' when I do a ping. It didn't seem to be a DNS entry, as the names are resolving properly. In the end I just put it down to ClaraNews/Clara.Net being a bit crap.
Anyway, recently I decided to move from ClaraNews to EasyNews. And now, all the time, I cannot access their server from NTL's network. If I ping news.easynews.com, it's just 'Destination host unreachable' again. In EasyNews' case I can access via their proxy (proxy.news.easynews.com, via port 443), and it works just fine.. but I find it suspicious that it's just news servers that I'm having problems accessing. I've got a laptop here too, accessing my work network via VPN.. I can access the sites perfectly well all of the time via that (but this is less than ideal).
Is there any way to find out the cause of my problems? I've tried disabling firewalls (i run Kerio 4.2.0) and so on to see if there was something wrong, but to no avail.
I'm kinda ok, in that I can still access EasyNews, but I find this slightly worrying..
Cheers,
Dean