Tim Peeler on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:00:52 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Cable Modem Goes Out?


On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:38:59PM -0500, William Shank wrote:
> It seems that the box on the other end of my cable modem is inaccessible
> between about 11-3 daily (for remote connections). I wonder if the box is
> doing something - like indexing the disk (it's a really powerful machine)
> and blocking requests or they are just timing out. Or, is comcast not
> allowing traffic in during that time period? Is there a restriction on how
> much data can go up stream from that box over a given period of time, and I
> max it out early in the morning?
> 
> Does anyone know anything about how that network works and/or have had
> similar problems? Also, since I use linux, I've never actually run the
> windows configuration software - so I don't know the e-mail or dns
> information (i'm using a known dns server). Does anyone know what these are?
> that way I can check my @home email and see if they are sending me nasty
> messages or something.
> 
If you're using dhclient/dhcp then it should automatically setup your
resolv.conf when the connection comes up.  Once that works, your mail
server should just be 'mail' - it's actually
mail.<city-prefix>.<state-prefix>.home.com, but since the first line
in your /etc/resolv.conf should be "search <city-p>.<state-p>.home.com"
you can just use mail.  For news it's just news.<...>.  As far as your
inbound connections, I haven't any Idea - I have no problems going
in to my home system anytime.

Tim
> 
> thanks
> 
> chris  
> 
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