On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:47:02PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:08:23PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
Can anyone suggest what might be going on and/or any way to diagnose what the problem is? Just being able to work out whether it's something wrong at my end or if there really is something wrong with the site I'm accessing would be useful.
I wouldn't even want to try to guess, as IIRC you have some slightly weird setup with 2 adsl lines. Have you tried traceroute to the sites in question when they go wrong? is DNS working? can you get to other sites ok when a site fails?
Yes, you're right, I do have 2 lines (see my other reply). I did try a traceroute but it didn't seem to tell me anything very useful, maybe I'll try it again when it happens again and look a little harder. When it happens everything else continues to work perfectly and I can quite happily continue my searches on other sites in other tabs. I'm hunting around various French tourist looking for accomodation when this is happening so I often have five or six tabs each drilling down through a different site looking at descriptions of gîtes etc.
There really are too many variables and not enough information you've given to suggest anything more than that.
I wasn't expecting an answer, just ideas to poke around with, your suggestion of traceroute is one such and, as I said, I'll dig further with that if it happens again.
I might 'un load balance' my routers and see if that seems to stop it happening, it's easy enough to simply turn off the second router and tell the 2820n it's not there.