can't ping or ssh

Hi all, for about 12 hours now I can not ping any machine on several
universities and government agencies (ping returns 100% packet loss) and I
can't ssh any of them. Since this is going on for 12 hours and it is not
localized to a specific university, I am wondering if
problem could be with my ISP, earthlink, which BTW has totally useless
support- they keep telling me they don't support linux. I do have access to
web and email though. Does any one know why this could be so? Rebooting the
machine doesn't help.

Thanks,
SuSE 9.1 DSL PPPoE

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:44:28 GMT, rsina wrote:
> Hi all, for about 12 hours now I can not ping any machine on several
> universities and government agencies (ping returns 100% packet loss) and I
> can't ssh any of them. Since this is going on for 12 hours and it is not
> localized to a specific university, I am wondering if
> problem could be with my ISP, earthlink, which BTW has totally useless
> support- they keep telling me they don't support linux. I do have access to
> web and email though. Does any one know why this could be so? Rebooting the
> machine doesn't help.
>
> Thanks,
> SuSE 9.1 DSL PPPoE

what is the output from traceroute?

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rsina wrote:
> Hi all, for about 12 hours now I can not ping any machine on several
> universities and government agencies (ping returns 100% packet loss) and I
> can't ssh any of them. Since this is going on for 12 hours and it is not
> localized to a specific university, I am wondering if
> problem could be with my ISP, earthlink, which BTW has totally useless
> support- they keep telling me they don't support linux. I do have access to
> web and email though. Does any one know why this could be so? Rebooting the
> machine doesn't help.
>
> Thanks,
> SuSE 9.1 DSL PPPoE

Probably a borked router. I had this happen to me about 10 years ago,
to my webhost. I ended up just getting a different host because there
was a dead router in there dropping telnet traffic. They couldn't get
the person to fix it...

Of course in hindsight, you could be part of a blocked subnet due to
someone trying to hack from it!?

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