Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> Alan,
> It's not actually a DNS issue, it's a case of EV1 (the host for
> PLUG) using a self-developed firewall solution (they boast about it on
> their site quite a bit). Their solution does a LOT if IP blocking, and
> it seems to include a large percentage of broadband IP's, probably
> because those IP's occasionally rotate, and over 2/3 of the home
> broadband users are now DDOS/SPAM zombies, so chances are that, even if
> your system is secure, the previous user of your IP address got it
> blocked due to acting as a DDOS/SPAM Zombie.
>
> Alan Dayley wrote:
>
>
I did tracing myself and a couple of different sites from here to the
UK. Half of them failed including one from a web hosting company- not a
DSL connection.
I don't disagree with your assessment, but I couldn't find a description
on their site
http://www.ev1.net of this "firewall" solution. I had a
provider that had similar things happening and it was a trashed router
configuration. Bottom line, if half of the internet can't get to the
site the popularity as well as the validity of the site will slide into
oblivion. Add to that the potential to turn off people who you might
want to impress and I think there is a problem with the current setup.
My $.02
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