Re: ping 64.233.207.8?

[Neal Hogan <nealhogan%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Neal Hogan <nealhogan%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch
> <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 08:09:18AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>>> I apologize if this has been asked before (I can't see if it was), but
>>> I have a 5.1 iso from the main US mirror and am trying to do an FTP
>>> install. When it attempts to configure my ethernet it tries to ping
>>> 64.233.207.8 and gets 100% packet loss. As far as I can tell that
>>> address points to nothing (I've tried ping'ing it from another
>>> (working) setup and it fails as well).
>>
>> Judging from the PTR, that's your ISP's DNS resolver.
>> Please tell your ISP that they are crazy.
>>
>
> Ha! Thanks!

I guess I should have asked is there anything else that I can do
besides yelling at my "reasonably" price ISP ;-)

Thanks!

>
>>        Jonathan Kollasch
>>
>