[WEB4LIB] DSL Woes

[Eric Hellman]

it's 192.168.x.x that is reserved for private networks- but your 
hypothesis struck me as being not impossible

I assume your users have tried accessing the site as http://192.68.30.200/ ??


At 2:25 PM -0800 1/11/02, Donald Barclay wrote:
>We have been getting scattered reports that DSL users cannot access our
>library webpages (www.library.tmc.edu). At first the reports came
>exclusively from users (including two of our librarians) of Southwestern
>Bell DSL, but today we got a report from someone using RoadRunner DSL. Does
>anyone know of any reason why webpages that are otherwise completely
>accessible cannot be accessed by users of DSL?
>
>We tried to contact Southwestern Bell DSL about this problem, but they won't
>respond to their own customers, much less us.
>
>One far-out thought we had was this: The numerical IP of our main webserver
>is 192.68.30.200. Numerical IPs that begin with 192.68.*.* can be used for
>private networks. Could the DSL providers be blocking IPs that start with
>"192.68" in the belief that they are protecting private networks?
>Interestingly, one of our DSL-using librarians reports that another website
>she cannot hit using DSL is www.sun.com, and the numerical address of this
>site begins with "192" (though the second part of the address is not "68").
>
>Any ideas will be much appreciated.
>
>Donald A. Barclay
-- 
Eric Hellman
Openly Informatics, Inc.
http://www.openly.com/1cate/      1 Click Access To Everything
http://my.linkbaton.com/                Links that Learn
please visit us at Midwinter ALA!