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Date:	Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:56:15 PDT7
From:	"Mark Abramowitz" <marka@relaypoint.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DSL weirdness

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OK, technically I'm off-topic, since I'm not seeking help.

But last night, my DSL went down. I called my ISPs tech support, and got
a return call right away. Apparently they had moved their cables and
"redback" (?) downstairs, and cut people off for about 15 minutes.

However, my connection remained down. I reset everything, but couldn't
ping anything, including my gateway. My DSL modem was showing a
connection. So they put in a help ticket to SBC.

This morning, still not able to connect, I tried a tracerte, and saw it
went from my IP address to an address I'll call aaa.aaa.aaa.a, and then
stopped. I had an idea, and changed the gateway setting from
bbb.bbb.bbb.bb to aaa.aaa.aaa.a. It worked!

I spoke with my ISPs tech support, and they said that they hadn't changed
anything, and that bb.bbb.bbb.bbb should not have worked. But I had used
it from day1, with no problems!

Very odd. Anyone have any theories about what was going on here?

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