Very interesting Randy, this sounds like what we endure on a regular basis in the eastern Caribbean....I too would like to know why myself since I have always wondered whether our local networks are set up.
Rudi Daniel > From: Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> > Subject: very strange internet behavior > To: customersupp...@caribcable.com > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:14:08 -0400 > > [ this needs to be escalated to an internet engineer ] > > hi, > > i am an old senior internet geek vacationing on nevis's nesbit beach. > the cottage has your tv and internet service. > > during what i suspect are the busy hours of the day, your internet > service borders on useless. it is as if an overloaded NAT is in the > middle. one can reach very few web sites. one can reach (ping, ssh, > ...) some hosts and not others. and the hosts are in the same rack and > same ip address space in a stateside colo. one can ping a host but not > ssh to it. or i can be sshed into a host and yet not be able to ping > it. very twisty stuff. > > if i turn on the tv, the cable seems to be working. > > i can run an openvpn tunnel to a stateside or japan-based host and then > everything is reachable. of course i have to try three or four of my > openvpn serving hosts before i find one which is reachable. this is not > a great solution, and certainly not one available to the vast majority > of your customers. > > from an engineer's point of view, i would love to understand what the > cause of all this really is. > > randy > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > NANOG@nanog.org > https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog > > End of NANOG Digest, Vol 32, Issue 62 > ************************************* > -- Rudi Daniel *danielcharles <http://goog_470770575>* consulting <http://goog_470770575>*ICT4Dev & e Business and services<http://goog_470770575> * <http://goog_470770575>*1-784 498 8277 <http://goog_470770575>* ** <http://goog_470770575>*h <http://csisvg.ning.com>ttp://csisvg.ning.com *
