Comments on: Is RCN Blocking Revver?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:23:41 +0000

I originally read this at Is the RNC blocking Revver and thought everyone was being a bit paranoid.

By: Wayan

Wayan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:45:15 +0000

Greg & Michael,

Thanks for the tips, I wish I could check RCN with them now, but I’m now on a business trip in Kenya for the next two weeks. I’d love it if another RCN customer could check this out in the mean time

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:40:03 +0000

Suggestion: Change your DNS settings to use OpenDNS. 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 This will help if RCN is simply messing with their name servers.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:03:39 +0000

It’s not necessarily that RCN is blocking Revver. It could simply be a routing issue on one of the hops. Most internet traffic takes a half dozen or more hops across multiple vendors’ networks to connect.

Use a network tool like traceroute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute) to figure out where the traffic between you and Revver.com is getting tossed into the void.

Of course, if this is persisting for days or weeks, then it’s likely a block (or *really* shoddy network management, which is not unheard of).

By: Wayan

Wayan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:52:42 +0000

Huh, then RCN really is blocking Revver. How odd. I wonder why? And how can we get them to stop?

By: nicole

nicole — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:55:29 +0000

I am on RCN and keep getting network timeout errors while trying to connect.

By: Tom Bridge

Tom Bridge — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:43:53 +0000

Or no one uses it :)

By: Wayan

Wayan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:46:23 +0000

Are you telling me that all of DC sees Revver except me?