Don't feel bad, my Cox was out tonight for the first time in years, I called support and they told me that my problem was my line although over 90% of my node was out!!! I reset modem for hours, and still nothing. So as a last resort before murder, I disconnected the power and "coax" for 10 seconds, replaced all and went to surf the net! ;~ This Email has been scanned using Norton AntiVirus 2003 Pro. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Einer" To: "PLUG" Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 7:29 PM Subject: Cox Internet problem resolution for Idiots > Of which I may be one. Let me tell you of my adventures. > > About 2:30 this AM, during the rainstorm, I completely lost my Cox cable > internet connection. All of the lights on the modem went out except the > first two. Later, like 5:00 AM, the modem was back doing it's happy > blinky-blinky, but things had gotten weird. My internet access was way > slow, and access to many pages just timed out, although I checked, and I > was not just accessing cached pages, I could access other pages, slowly. > But heres the strangest thing. I was receiving e-mails just fine, but > could not send one. I could ping my POP server, but not my SMTP server. > I also could not ping Cox, or even my own website. > > So I called customer service, got escalated from level one to level two, > and eventually had to leave for work. Came home tonight, called Cox > back, and after several misadventures in customer service, got hold of > another level 2 guy, who really wanted to help, and tried, but could not > because it's Linux. Not supported. He was able to tell me, though, that > he could ping my modem, he could read my card, but he could not ping my > computer. > > Well, that was a clue, anyway. I tried the traditional tricks of > rebooting the pc, unplugging and resetting the modem, reconfiguring my > internet connection. Buzzard luck. Then, a dim memory of the ancient > horrors of Corel Linux came to me, and I knew- somehow, some way, DHCPCD > was borked and needed nudging. > > Man DHCPCD. Hm. -k looks like a good switch to start with. Purge the > cache and see if we can start anew. No luck, still the bad connection. > Man DHCPCD. -D, forces DHCPCD to set the domain name of the host to the > name supplied by the server. Could it be? DHCPCD -k again, then DHCPCD -D. > > Eureka! Instant internet connection. > > I am saving this e-mail as a "note to self" in case it happens again. > > > -- > > > Lee Einer > Dos Manos Jewelry > http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss