As y’all know, I’ve been having trouble with my ISP. Briefly, the DNS server connection was continuously being lost, and just this weekend I could not set up a VPN that I had bought and paid for. I asked BT for a Migration Access Code and got one, with a request to call them to see if they could help.
I was put on to a rather incompetent call centre droid from India who did not understand what a DNS was and continued to insist that my line had not gone down for years. I asked for someone who was competent (not in those words) and got someone who gave me the global DNS address. I entered this as the lookup address and, lo and behold, I lost the ability to control my router from the desktop interface. I decided to try going back to the router I had previously.
Well, folks, it was the router. Once I changed routers, I was able to connect to the VPN first time, and the DNS lookup problem seems to have disappeared (I hope).
I am now listening to KKSF San Francisco over the Web for the first time in more than a year, since Comcast cut off service internationally for copyright reasons (the VPN has a US IP address).
O frabjous day! Calloo, callay!
I’m chortling in my joy!