[wlug_org] Wellylug website down again

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <6.1.2.0.1.20060921094220.04855820 at pop3.paradise.net.nz>, Tony Wills writes:
>For the technically minded I am on a Telstra Cable connection, the physical 
>connection to Telstra's network seems to be intact, I can see ARP requests 
>and the occasional UDP  packet.  I can not ping either the Paradise DNS 
>server, or gateway.  My address is 121.73.5.55, gw 121.73.5.1.  I have been 
>able to ping a few other local machines eg 121.73.5.10 (whoever that is), 
>and strangely a few other addresses eg 203.?.?.? (can't remember what 
>address it was, an addr I saw sending ARP requests).

FWIW, sounds very similar to a report on nznog:

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From:    "David Robinson" <dave.robinson at gmail.com>
To:      NZNOG at list.waikato.ac.nz
Date:    Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:26:47 +1200
Subject: [nznog] Telstra Cable Problems

A customer of mine in Wellington has had no cable connection since
Monday night. This is no connection full stop for that time period, it
is not the random drop outs that people have been having on cable.
[...]
Everything is setup correctly as the firewall is seeing random access
attempts from other ips on the subnet (121.73.0.*), but the client is
unable to ping the gateway (121.73.0.1).
[...]
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The ARP requests for "random" addresses is a normal feature of the 
TelstraClear cable network, including for subnets outside of yours, 
as they have a lot of subnets overlayed over the same cable network.

Ewen