John Lindal’s Blog

Internet Outage

This is by far the weirdest service disruption I have ever witnessed. Normally, when our connection dies, the router can’t get an IP address from our cable company, so it’s obviously their problem. This time, I could ping 4.2.2.[1-6], DNS worked, and I could even call our land line and receive incoming calls on our Vonage phone. But any attempt to ping a server like yahoo.com or google.com or call other phone numbers through Vonage was unsuccessful. Truly a strange set of symptoms!