Sky BB: Timeouts

[anthoni]

I have Sky Broadband.
Just recently I was disconnected from the service (a problem at BT's end it turned out, although I had to order the fault myself, long story).

Before disconnection I could access 100% of the internet and had no trouble, although it was slowish (again due to my line not being able to hold it, only 512k).

Now BT have upgraded the lines, and since the connection has been fixed I am experiencing a lot problems with pages and sites. I am getting a lot of websites that are failing to respond. I know they are still there, because I have a friend who checks them.

I presume this is a DNS problem, although not 100% sure.
Any ideas as to how I can resolve this ?

Sky tell me its because the IP addresses that they use are not propagated enough through DNS servers. Is this true ?

Regards
Anthoni

[Ian]

The rep is kinda right, though its not dns related..

Your ip address is in the 90.0.0.0/7 subnet which was at some point an unused range of ips, it therefore appears in the list of invalid ip addresses in various firewall packages.. so your connection is being blocked by out of date firewalls (and routers)..

Theres not much sky can do, apart from provide a proxy server for you to use..

You can try contacting the owners of sites that you cant access and get them to remove the 90.0.0.0/7 entry from the list of "bogons" (obviously this is a bit tricky !) but unless they have access to the server, they`ll have to pass it on to their server support...

[anthoni]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the reply. I understand it more now.
It will be difficult to contact the owners of the websites because I can not get to their website in the first place......"catch 22 scenario me thinks"

Do SKY themselves need to provide me with a proxy server, or can I find one (heaven knows where from like) and use that instead ?

They gave me several IP addresses but they are just different DNS servers, so that wont solve it really.

Regards
Anthoni

[Ian]

There are no decent proxies generally available, sky would need to provide one (unlikely)
You should be able to view some sites using "kinda-proxies" like :

http://translate.google.com/translate_t
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
http://pornolize.com/ (caution- will contain rude words!)

[anthoni]

Hi Ian,

I can view the first two, but pornolize.com says "Problem loading page"
The connection timed out. The server at pornolize.com is taking too long to respond.

Ohh well, will have to try and badger sky and see what they say

Cheers anyway.

Regards
Anthoni

[Zer02004]

The-Cloak will allow you to access most sites although the free version has limitations such as no form submittal (So you can't use logins), no FTP proxy, no proxy via sites that don't fully conform to the HTTP protocol etc.

However, it's really down to Sky not to let bogons be bogons!