Re: Web server cannot be accessed from certain locations

In article <bb088s$1iua$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Yellin <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I hold a web server with many domains. It is located in Israel and is behind
>my ISP's firewall. a couple of days ago I started getting complaints from
>people over seas that they cannot access our server. I checked DNS server
>listings and all seems to be fine. There are even people that can get a
>nslookup result from their DNS server (looking up my server) but cannot
>access the sites via HTTP. They get a "connecting" but after a long while no
>connection is made (or no data is transferred) I have not received any
>complaints from people in Israel.
>The server IP is: 212.179.27.198 and a sample site would be: www.ricor.com
>
>Any ideas? How can I get down to the bottom of this?

This doesn't sound like a BIND or DNS problem.  It sounds to me like the
web server is hung.

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