[Discuss] Has Comcast broken the internet?

[Tony Koker]

Laura,

   Not sure about the services that are working for you, whether they use
DNS or not, but this sounds like a problem I've had in the past when the
DNS for the ISP isn't working.

Tony Koker


On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Laura Conrad <lconrad at laymusic.org> wrote:

>
> I can send mail and read mail and news and do rsync's and pings, so
> there can't be anything wrong with the physical connection.  But for the
> last two hours, I haven't been able to use any browser to get to any new
> webpage.  I'm pretty sure the ones that are still displaying are in my
> cache.  In other words, nntp, smtp and ssh are all working fine, but
> http seems to have gone on vacation.
>
> On my android phone, I can do a google search when I'm using t-mobile
> 3G, but not when I set it to WIFI, which is using my comcast connection.
> I can ssh into my dreamhost account and run lynx with no problems on the
> sites I'm having trouble with from my home computer.
>
> Is anyone else having trouble?  If so, have you reported it?  And if you
> did, would you guess saying, "Nntp, smtp and ssh work and http doesn't,"
> would be better or worse than saying, "The internet is broken?"
>
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