RE: [cobalt-users] Dialtone Internet...

[MistaAviB@xxxxxxx]

Hi I have have great luck with dialtone internet and their IP automation 
system. It's alot faster and better than any other I have seen.

Just because you can't ping the IP does not mean it's bad. The problem is 
that a company with great connections and many hosted servers (Dialtone 
internet has just over 16,000 servers hosted there) ip ranges get attacked. 
They therefore dissable pinging to the ip's to stop attacks and sometimes if 
it's bad, they will call bell or whoever provides their lines and have the 
whole c class routed to null 0 for a while till it clears.
Also, just because they assign you ip's does not mean it will automatically 
work. You must goto your linux box and get the ip's in there to the ethernet 
card. 
While Dialtone internet does charge alot it's not their fault that this 
happens.