(ASCEND) One for the Gurus......

[David Bourgoyne <bourgoyn@ao.net>]

Hi ascend users,

I'm having a problem with my pipeline 50 and ISP.  First of all, my ISP
dynamically
assigns IP numbers, so I run NAT.  Everything was working fine until a
couple of weeks
ago when news stopped working.  What I found out was they added two
additional news machines all mapped to the name "news.ao.net".  So if I
ping 3 consecutive times I get:

[david@localhost david]$ ping news.ao.net
PING news.ao.net (209.12.213.134): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.12.213.134: icmp_seq=0 ttl=252 time=45.9 ms
64 bytes from 209.12.213.134: icmp_seq=1 ttl=252 time=47.3 ms

--- news.ao.net ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 45.9/46.6/47.3 ms
[david@localhost david]$ ping news.ao.net
PING news.ao.net (205.244.242.28): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 205.244.242.28: icmp_seq=0 ttl=252 time=52.6 ms
64 bytes from 205.244.242.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=252 time=47.0 ms

--- news.ao.net ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 47.0/49.8/52.6 ms
[david@localhost david]$ ping news.ao.net
PING news.ao.net (208.243.147.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.243.147.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=252 time=46.3 ms
64 bytes from 208.243.147.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=252 time=45.9 ms
64 bytes from 208.243.147.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=252 time=47.8 ms

--- news.ao.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 45.9/46.6/47.8 ms
[david@localhost david]$

NOTICE how each successive ping returns a different IP number.  The next
ping
would return to the first IP number and start all over.

I believe this is the event which broke news.  I have a friend who uses
the same ISP.
He runs a linux box and connects via PPP over a modem.  This hasn't
affected him
and he can still read news.

Any suggestions as what could be wrong?

Things I've tried.

o Upgrading my ascend software from: b.p50.Ai16 to b.p50_6.0.9.
o Reading news from every machine/OS on my network.  All fail.
o Hard coding the IP number of each of the news machines in my news
readers. All fail.
o Telneting to the news machines at port 119.  The telnet session hangs
after reporting
    the escape character, see below:
        [david@localhost david]$ telnet news.ao.net 119
        Trying 209.12.213.134...
        Connected to news.ao.net.
        Escape character is '^]'.
<<< Hangs the telnet session here >>>

Thanks,

David


--
A wise man once said: If it didn't come with source, it's firmware not software.

David W. Bourgoyne
david.bourgoyne@bigfoot.com



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