Re: network health check, anybody? www.berlios.de down from starhub - but up using another connection
Low Chin Chau <[email protected]>
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No worries. I would be equally pissed in your position. It's not just the <cough>traffic<cough> one. Have you noticed that the agency that's responsible for <cough>infocomm<cough> has the same problem? Sigh... Take care On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Low Chin Chau <[email protected]> wrote: >> sure. I do get the timeout-on-long-downloads errors, but not one where >> a site is persistently unavailable. >> > > good for you. Dunno if i'm just unlucky, surf a lot, have been with > starhub for a long enough time to notice this sort of thing... or a > combination of some of those things. > > >> One of my pet peeves though are sites that don't work without the >> "www". But that's another matter :) >> > > yeah, I agree. Like local singapore (sometimes governmental! ahem > <transport>!) sites. > >> Peace >> > > yeah. My deal is with starhub, and this nonsense of theirs. And their > CSOs can be quite brain dead at times. ("starhub = not ok. Bypass > proxy = ok. You dont get the connection?") > > -jf > > > -- > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." > --Richard Stallman > > "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." > -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation > http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 > _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]