[waay ot] No route to host problems

[tberk@mindspring.com (T Berk)]

Brian McGarvey wrote:
> 
> Well for the biggest city in the known world and AOL/TW beingsuper large.
> It seems that i have lost access to about half of the internet. ie. no
> route to host.
> 
> I was wondering what i can do to back this up.
> It seems to happen quite frequently.  ie. can i use slashdot's DNS server
> and regain the routes.
> 
> im quite sure is a AOL/TW -- road runner issue.
> i cant ping www.yahoo.com from this box
> but i can ping it from a box on GaTech campus.
> brian
> running win2kpro wanting to chat and have his IM up..
> 


I'm replying to All, hoping the OT in the header will save me from
flames.

Off the top of my head (being a specializing non-specialist and all) I
can say you might investigate building a local routing table on your
local computer. It's a drag, (esp if you are maintaining a number of
systems), to keep up to date but it might help to resolve those frequent
hosts who may drop off the Net from time to time.

hth,
TBerk