d2r: January 25, 2004 Archives

dsl half-broken, again

For the last couple of days I've had the same problem I saw about two weeks ago with my DSL connection. Some sites were unreachable while others worked fine. So I bit the bullet and called up support (again) and this time I got some more details. Apparently Eircom added a pool of IPs recently and one of their transatlantic provider (AT&T) doesn't know about them yet. So whenever you go through them, they drop the packets. After some changes and trying out other usernames, it started to work again. Hopefully this problem with AT&T will be solved soon (they said this week, I'm skeptical); for some reason I keep getting assigned to that broken pool and half the internet is innaccessible for me (and people can't reach me either, which is bad for P2P apps). We'll see.

Categories: personal
Posted by diego on January 25, 2004 at 3:08 PM

atomenabled.org

[via Don] Sam released AtomEnabled.org. Missing: a feed to keep up with updates. Site looks great though!

Categories: soft.dev
Posted by diego on January 25, 2004 at 3:02 PM