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jackofallgeeks) wrote2004-04-23 10:32 am
jackofallgeeks) wrote2004-04-23 10:32 am
We shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedys?"
I get the sinking suspicion that this school is trying to play under-handed trick to keep people from file sharing.
Maybe I'm paranoid. Maybe I'm not. What I do know is that ResNet, the network that connects personal computers in the residence halls to the internet, has been majorly screwy lately. For the last month, my internet access has dropped randomly, for no reason, and come back up randomly, too. I haven't timed the intervals between when it drops and when it picks back up. The public school computers in the labs around campus have not had this problem.
It's not a complete drop, either. Outlook can't get to my mail, IE won't open any pages, Semagic can't connect to LJ and my SSH client can't connect to Secho, but if Trillian is connected when I 'lose' my internet, it maintains it's connection. I can't connect to Trillian if it's already died, though.
And I'm not the only one that it does this to, either. All of my roomies have experienced it to some extent or another -- Curtis, Chris, and I (who use our computers the most) have felt it more than Zach or Mike, but even they have lost access. As has my buddy Jim and a few of his friends. And to top it all off, my computer routinely drops off the internet whenever I try to view a webpage that loads a lot of graphics, like www.dilbert.com or www.furcadia.com. Fishy, fishy, fishy.
I IMed another friend of mine, who works at the school paper, to see if they've looked into it at all. They have a way of being a thorn in the Computer Center's side, and especially if the Center IS playing something under the table, and our legitimate services are being interrupted because of it... I have anger.
Update (14:46): Here at work, I just checked all the different pages that kill my internet, and not only do they load, but they load *very* fast. That is all.
Maybe I'm paranoid. Maybe I'm not. What I do know is that ResNet, the network that connects personal computers in the residence halls to the internet, has been majorly screwy lately. For the last month, my internet access has dropped randomly, for no reason, and come back up randomly, too. I haven't timed the intervals between when it drops and when it picks back up. The public school computers in the labs around campus have not had this problem.
It's not a complete drop, either. Outlook can't get to my mail, IE won't open any pages, Semagic can't connect to LJ and my SSH client can't connect to Secho, but if Trillian is connected when I 'lose' my internet, it maintains it's connection. I can't connect to Trillian if it's already died, though.
And I'm not the only one that it does this to, either. All of my roomies have experienced it to some extent or another -- Curtis, Chris, and I (who use our computers the most) have felt it more than Zach or Mike, but even they have lost access. As has my buddy Jim and a few of his friends. And to top it all off, my computer routinely drops off the internet whenever I try to view a webpage that loads a lot of graphics, like www.dilbert.com or www.furcadia.com. Fishy, fishy, fishy.
I IMed another friend of mine, who works at the school paper, to see if they've looked into it at all. They have a way of being a thorn in the Computer Center's side, and especially if the Center IS playing something under the table, and our legitimate services are being interrupted because of it... I have anger.
Update (14:46): Here at work, I just checked all the different pages that kill my internet, and not only do they load, but they load *very* fast. That is all.
LOL @ BOFH
1) Computer science script kiddies. Annoying little fucks, they're like ticks or leaches and should be disposed of selfsame. These guys usually can't take out the network though.
2) Drexel transparently proxies. But they'll never admit it. That's why MAC addresses need to be registered. If you want to check for transparent proxies, see this archive (http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-02/0257.shtml).
3) DNS goes down. Already established connections don't die when DNS goes down but anything that requires a DNS lookup (or has the no-cache directive set in it's table entry suchas most round-robin servers) will fail. This also happens because drexel uses fakie DHCP and the lease is set low.
Re: LOL @ BOFH
The transparent proxies and/or bad DNS could be the issue here -- except whatever it is is new, because this is the first time in three years that it's happened, and it's disturbingly regular.