Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Problems like this one are not inside your ISP per se, but are rather in the interconnection between your ISP and others. The original message was from Jim Nichols. Presumably his service has been restored. Just now I ran a trace between the LUG computer and his home computer. That trace showed 25 different links, which I can summarize as: Palo Alto California -- my house San Francisco, at 200 Paul Avenue, which is where my T1 circuit goes San Jose, CA -- Level 3 Communications, Inc Atlanta -- Level 3 Communications Atlanta -- Bell South (someplace that I can't identify, with location code "AXR") Nashville -- Bell South Jacksonville, Florida -- Bell South at that point I sort of host the trail, because Bell South wouldn't let me probe further into its network. This means that for you (Jim Nichols) to communicate with the LUG, your ISP has to be working, their connection to Level 3 has to be working, Level 3 has to be routing datg from Atlanta to San Jose, and my ISP has to be properly communicating with Level 3 in San Francisco. Even as I type this, the connection between my ISP and Level 3 has stopped working, which isolates me from those portions of the Internet to which Level 3 is the preferred path from 200 Paul in San Francisco. It's fragile. Brian Reid