ADSL problem... any ideas?

[Jay Vaughan]

> Some websites work great, others don't appear at all.  For example,  
> Yahoo
> works, Google (any Google site I can think of) doesn't, various random
> websites I've made usually work, as well as some parts of  
> Sourceforge, but
> Slashdot and BBC News doesn't.
>

By 'works' .. define what fails?
>
> I've been through all of the connection settings on the phone with  
> the tech
> support people, and they all appear to be right.  Indeed, they must  
> be pretty
> much there, because I can get to some websites completely fine.  So  
> I managed
> to get to the D-Link website and find that this box isn't running  
> the newest
> firmware - gonna sort that next week, as I couldn't download it  
> from their
> FTP site (which didn't work), so need to take it with me on a  
> memory stick
> from home!  :-S
>


Would be sensible - some routers have dodgy firmware that really does  
screw up routes and subnets ..
>

> Maybe the router is just borked, but it came from a relatively  
> reliable source
> who said it was working fine, so I've no reason to think it would be.

Could be a dodgy filter/blacklist setting on the router itself.  Have  
you tried the obvious: full factory reset?  Can you dump the config  
of the router to a local machine (yours for example) for user- 
readable view of the config?


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Jay Vaughan