| Thanks for the input...nothing has changed. Also, both my laptop and my desktop pcs are affected by this issue, so it isn't a program or anything that was installed on either machine that is causing this, IMHO anyway.
1. if the isp is blocking my router, wouldn't more things be blocked, not just the traffic over port 21?
2. if it is the router, besides putting it in the DMZ to rule out port blocking by the router, what else could it be?
I just did a tracert and here are the results...
C:\Documents and Settings\Home>tracert webpages.charter.net
Tracing route to webpages.charter.net [209.225.8.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.10.1
2 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.156.224.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * ^C
C:\Documents and Settings\Home>tracert webpages.charter.net
Tracing route to webpages.charter.net [209.225.8.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.10.1
2 12 ms 10 ms 11 ms 10.156.224.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * ^C
C:\Documents and Settings\Home>
It looks like the traffic is going through the router okay, but being blocked after that.....
EDIT - just looked up the 10.156.224.1, it appears to be a IANA blackhole server. I traced other websites, google, yahoo, etc and they all go to that blackhole server and everything after that is timed out....but the kicker is that those other sites work, ftp does not.
Ideas?  |