MERGED - Connection problems in Bromley

[ntl customer]

Originally Posted by Neil

My nice new shiny Pipex connection is working fine.....

My Pipex connection has been stuffed for about 3 hours this evening because of the internal routing problems coupled with the defect in the TAT-14 transatlantic undersea cable.

Although there are no crappy proxies to deal with, the DNS has been up the spout for a number of hours now, although it has been fixed now. The email works and has been reliable, which is the exact of what ntl's email has been.

However there has to be a sting in the tail - and that has been the random disconnections which are being addressed with the support people.

[MetaWraith]

Originally Posted by downquark1

Question: Do DNS caches store failed or 'empty' lookups?

XP certainly does, but there's a registry fix to stop it from doing that

Originally Posted by th'engineer

change your dns settings to that of zoom and connect on BB

errr complete here.how do i do that?

incog.

[Leedsman]

I can connect to the Internet but cannot send email, browse or use MSN Messenger using NTL. Thank goodness I have beeb.net as a back up ISP. NTL is so crap these days.

[MetaWraith]

okay, due to numerous requests, here's a currently working proxy 217.40.26.177:8000

[downquark1]

Incog:
http://www.webattack.com/dns_setupxp.html

Set as
195.40.1.250
195.40.0.250

Originally Posted by downquark1

Incog:
http://www.webattack.com/dns_setupxp.html

Set as
195.40.1.250
195.40.0.250

damn it bl**dy microsoft ME.

was just replying to downquark and the stuffing IE discoverd an error and had to close down IE.Bluddy hell everything is going on strike.

B*gger it! I can''t be fecking bothered.I'm off to read a book which will be a bluddy sight more constructive.

Incog.

[DrAwesome]

If your using I.E
launch your browser
goto
Tools/internet options/connections/lan settings/
check/tick proxy server and enter alternative addr & port
click ok and close your browser and then launch it again.

or without launching I.E

click on Start button
goto my computer/control panel/internet options/connections/lan settings/check/tick proxy server and enter alternative addr & port
then launch you I.E browser

[zaax]

what I find is weird is that I can pick up usenet from News.CIS.DFN.DE (& others)which must mean that a dns servers is used to translate the name. but no surfing via ntl.


Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:38:02 News connection to News.CIS.DFN.DE closed - filing continues
Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:38:03 News from News.CIS.DFN.DE completed, 64 articles fetched, 0 posted

[darkone338]

Sorry if I'm repeating anyone, but my connection speed is somewhat slower than normal so Ive not read all 6 previous pages.....

This appears to be quite a widespread problem. A good proportion of Europe is unable to traverse CERTAIN routes to the USA due to what appears to be a problem with the PoP (Point of Presence) at Telehouse UK.

A trace to the UK from new york ends at the last hop before the transatlantic crossing....

traceroute to xxxx.ntl.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets
1 xxx.xxx.nyc.lomag.net (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 17.223 ms 19.096 ms 19.373 ms
2 282.ge2-0.er1a.lga1.us.mfnx.net (64.124.183.138) 19.503 ms 17.954 ms 19.759 ms
3 so-4-1-0.cr2.lga1.us.above.net (216.200.127.197) 19.306 ms 19.071 ms 19.572 ms
4 pos1-0.pr1.lga1.us.above.net (208.184.233.218) 19.672 ms 11.157 ms 19.770 ms
5 so-1-2.core1.NewYork1.Level3.net (209.244.160.157) 17.547 ms 10.403 ms 19.803 ms
6 ae-0-55.bbr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.159.17.129) 18.840 ms 11.012 ms 19.706 ms
7 * * *

A trace back to the USA dies at the last hop before NTL join the same transatlantic route....

4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms gfd-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [62.254.207.1
65]
5 12 ms 10 ms 9 ms gfd-bb-b-so-300-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.29]
6 9 ms 9 ms 11 ms gfd-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.5]
7 * * *

Routes to European sites should be unaffected tho, some that claim to be European sites, but are physically located in the USA, may appear to be offline...

I have a few friends in Greece and Germany who are also unable to connect to the sites and services that I'm unable to connect to. I also cannot connect from my either of my 2 office sites (both on different ISPs to me and each other)

As its not directly an NTL issue, I guess we'll have to sit tight and wait.....

[MetaWraith]

myIE2 free download from www.myIE2.com has this nice feature whereby you can set a whole list of proxys and choose between them at a mouse click and not need to close and reopen the browser.

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Caspar

Nice1 downquark1, worked me in Warrington

Even when I set DNS IP's I still can't get anything, not even MSN messenger, and that was fine last time this happened.

I'm on AOL dial up at the moment, yuck.

edit- There's 20 guests and 2 member reading this thread, now thats just weird

[darkone338]

Originally Posted by dellwear

Even when I set DNS IP's I still can't get anything, not even MSN messenger, and that was fine last time this happened.

I'm on AOL dial up at the moment, yuck.

edit- There's 20 guests and 2 member reading this thread, now thats just weird

As its not directly a DNS problem, its not suprising it still doesn't work..
The server can probably look up the ip address fine, but if you cannot connect to the actual MSN (or whatever service youre trying) because the route has failed, then it still wont connect.

The way to get around this is A) have a DNS server set, thats physically located somewhere thats not affected by this outage (ie a US DNS Server) and B) a proxy server that supports Socks4 or 5 so as you can force all of your applications to use a proxy. Most of the proxies discussed here are just web proxys, so surfing webpages might work, but other apps might still fail...

[zaax]

it's all now working. So over to the Huntley case at http://www.nthellworld.co.uk/forum/s...6871#post86871

[chris D]

Cheers for the dns addy's downquark ..... took a while to work out how to change it in Win M.E., but browsing back to normal with the dns settings changed- if anything my browsing speed has increased to what it normally is. Just shows how k*ackered NTL's set up really is
At least NTL turned off the transparent cache round 'ere in Warwickshire, the same as in the Manchester area.... think that may be the reason its working for some and not for others.