Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:22:23 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Dave <dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problemsgetting data from www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980617232113.140B-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980617134650.16484A-100000@gregory.dyn.ml.org>
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May I suggest a locally-owned multihomed ISP? Let them deal with the bigboys and sell you a decent pipe... I'm sure someone here can suggest a quality provider in your region. Charles Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Dave wrote: > In search of a decent nationwide ISP, I am currently trying both > concentric and sprint. > > The current problem about which tech support is clueless: With concentric > I get errors at certain websites, including www.freebsd.org and > www.rhapsodyos.com, from my machine. Specifically I get Network Error: > Connection reset by peer. Direct connection via telnet to port 80 results > in no response from server. > > Other trivia: Telnetting to concentric and using lynx to access > www.freebsd.org results in no error. Connections to other websites such > as yahoo are fine. I experience no such errors with sprint. > > Any suggestions? > > P.S. Sprint seems pretty good overall, but they started filtering port 25 > connections big time. With the exception of sprint's SMTP server, I can > make no port 25 connections at all. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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