Re: comcast [somerville,ma] network flakiness?

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Scott R. Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> Two weekends ago my comcast internet connection was down for a while in the 
>> morning then came back.  Same as this past weekend.   It was down again this 
>> morning. 
>> 
>>  I don't recall the last time their network connectivity was so flaky as 
>> these two past weekends, including this morning.   All LEDs on my rented 
>> modem were lit, but a traceroute really didn't go anywhere. 
>> 
>>  Anyone else experiencing problems?   Anyone know of service/infrastructure 
>> changes they may be doing? 
> 
> Was it really "down"?  I noticed something similar in 2004 when they 
> were having major DNS issues for about two weeks.  Many people I knew 
> were complaining.  I even did Comcast a favor and called them up to 
> tell them, but I don't think the customer support person understood 
> what DNS was :-)  That's when 4.2.2.2 became famous... 
> -- 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen 
> -- 
> "Clever ones don't want the future told. They make it." 
>