Three sites that I visit regularly:
- michelfortin.com
- lewrockwell.com
- screencast.com
Are not coming up on my computer nor any computers on my home network. When I connect via my Verizon card, they DO come up... but the signal is marginal so it doesn't really help except to isolate the problem.
The ping tests fail.
I have a call into my ISP, a small local provider.
I don't think it's a DNS problem, as I run OpenDNS through my wireless router, and the resulting non-connectivity for these three sites is the same whether I connect to the router or plug directly into the ISP's modem. Plus, the standard OpenDNS errors are not coming up. I admit I have a lot to learn about DNS issues.
And yes I have reset the wireless router and broadband modem by cutting the power for more than a minute.
As I need one of the sites for my home business and I probably won't hear from my ISP until after the weekend, I'd appreciate if anyone has insight.
Edit: for clarity, I should mention that I previously checked all the sites with downforeveryoneorjustme.com, and checked the hosts file on all affected computers.
When I run tracert, here is the result:
C:\Users\Darrel>tracert screencast.com
Tracing route to screencast.com [72.52.191.14] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms WL.domain.com [192.168.2.1]
2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.100.1
3 142 ms 25 ms 11 ms 66.239.236.121.ptr.us.xo.net [66.239.236.121]
4 16 ms 14 ms 14 ms p4-3-0.mar2.spokane-wa.us.xo.net [207.88.83.173]
5 32 ms 26 ms 41 ms p5-1-0-3d0.rar2.seattle-wa.us.xo.net [65.106.0.153]
6 82 ms 19 ms 22 ms p5-0-0d0.rar1.seattle-wa.us.xo.net [65.106.1.97]
7 81 ms 61 ms 41 ms te-3-1-0.rar3.seattle-wa.us.xo.net [65.106.1.46]
8 58 ms 84 ms 84 ms 207.88.13.145.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.13.145]
9 137 ms 196 ms 90 ms 206.111.7.138.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.7.138]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
C:\Users\Darrel>
Final Edit: Thank for the help guys. The problems resolved themselves before the end of the day. Yes I could have gone elsewhere to access the screencast.com site... the issue was partly that I live a long way from civilization and the other that I just didn't understand what was happening. I still don't understand it but perhaps my ISP will be able to explain it tomorrow.
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