From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 20:22:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04736 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04730 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA01849; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:22:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:22:23 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Dave cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problemsgetting data from www.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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