In article ,
Old Nick wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:42:39 -0500, Bob Robinson
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email
Rapco's site (rapcoindustries.com) seems dead.
Rapco is alive and well, they make the TCT to fit any type of saw ever
made. The web address is: http://www.rapcoindustries.com/index.html
Hope this helps,
They may well be. But as I said, their site just will not show up. I
even tried manually adding it to my firewall, and also closing the
wall down, but it just comes up dead every time.
Hmm ... they come up fine for me right now. Earlier today
(actually yesterday by now) there was a major DNS server under DDoS
attack, which might account for your problems.
Or it may be that *their* firewall is blocking anything from
out-of-country. I've gotten a lot of spam sent from OZ sites -- as I am
sure that you have gotten a lot sent by US sites. I'm not blocking OZ,
but I am blocking as much as I can of China and Korea (among other
places).
You could try replacing the domain name with the IP address and
see if that will get you through (which would shortcut DNS lookup
problems). Here are the results of my nslookup run:
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Name:
www.rapcoindustries.com
Address: 216.242.0.56
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You could also try a traceroute (if you've got that program in
your system). That could tell you where the connection is failing. It
could be anywhere between your system and theirs. I get as far as the
same class-C block before the traceroute dies, so I suspect that they
have some form of firewall blocking ICMP packets (which traceroute
depends upon).
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traceroute to 216.242.0.56 (216.242.0.56), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 SkinnyBox (204.91.85.1) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms
2 209.116.196.213 (209.116.196.213) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms
3 165.117.192.198 (165.117.192.198) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms
4 165.117.175.129 (165.117.175.129) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms
5 165.117.67.62 (165.117.67.62) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms
6 165.117.64.9 (165.117.64.9) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms
7 206.111.0.17.ptr.us.xo.net (206.111.0.17) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms
8 sl-st21-ash-6-2.sprintlink.net (144.223.246.113) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms
9 sl-bb26-rly-5-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.149) 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms
10 sl-bb22-atl-11-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.19.177) 60 ms 54 ms 36 ms
11 sl-bb20-orl-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.19.74) 35 ms 32 ms 35 ms
12 sl-gw11-orl-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.2.226) 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms
13 sl-ciberlynxinc-48-0-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.59.50) 38 ms 37 ms 37 ms
14 216.242.114.19 (216.242.114.19) 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *
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If all else fails, you can try contacting them via phone or
e-mail, from this information from their web page:
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RAPCO INDUSTRIES, INC.
6000 N.E. 88TH ST. SUITE D-104, VANCOUVER, WA 98665-0958
PHONE (800) 959-6130 FAX (360) 573-0046
Email:
Email:
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When you *do* reach them, please be gentle. The problem may be
nothing to do with them, and just be blocking somewhere upstream.
Good Luck,
DoN.
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