Sympatico outages ?

[Michael Wilson]

 it might not be your internet connection, maybe just
a DNS problem. to check, open up a console window a
try to ping a popular website's IP address, not their
DNS name. For example, type "ping 216.109.117.110"
(Yahoo!'s IP), if you get replies then you know it's a
DNS problem.

--- David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
wrote: > On Wednesday my connection to Sympatico
crapped out.
> I wiggled wires, I called 310-SURF, I re-ran
> adsl-setup.
> Hey ! It worked ! for about 1/2 an hour ! then
> "blablabla.com not found" 
> errors again.
>     then it worked, and so on for most of Wed and
> Thurs.
> I got a call from a friend (using Mandrake 9.1) with
> the exact same 
> symptoms and today his friend added a third voice to
> the din.
> Sympatico service claims no outages, anyone else
> been having troubles ?
> djp
> 
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