[thelist] responsiveness from "the coffee shop"]
Bob Meetin
bobm at dottedi.biz
Fri Feb 4 09:17:19 CST 2011
Good morning all,
After nary a complaint for over a month, the last three mornings she has
reported problems from the same coffee shop, all between 7am-8am MT.
Yesterday I sent her the paraphrased instructions Mohan sent. She's on
a MAC now rather than a PC, so we're not clear on the flushdns step 2.
1) Can anyone advise how to do flush dns on a MAC?
2) Depending on the result, positive or negative, would this still
indicate a problem with the coffee shop's internet provider or other?
-Bob
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I couldn't get on again this morning.
The coral thing did work.
Tried to find out how to flush the DNS with my mac but couldn't. Ran
the ping and got this
Ping has started…
PING dottedi.biz (174.121.22.85): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
Request timeout for icmp_seq 8
--- dottedi.biz ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Bob Meetin wrote:
From a fellow on the list:
Lets make a checklist of items for your client to do, the next time this
happens.
1) Go to this site: http://www.coralcdn.org/ and in "Using coral" enter
the site address (in the place where it says www.cnn.com) and click Go.
2) If this loads, then the problem is with the ISP's DNS servers.
1. Run ipconfig /flushdns
2. Run ipconfig /release
3. Run ipconfig /renew
Try to connect again. Explanation: What this does is to force Windows
into rebuilding the DNS cache by querying the DNS entries again from DNS
servers. These are "windows" commands and unfortunately I don't know
what the comparable MAC commands are.
3) If connect fails, Run ping and tracert. Send me output of ping and
tracert (Also Windows commands, you need the MAC version/method)
Mohan
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