Connection Refused

[John Aldrich]

Jim RabidWolf wrote on Monday, April 24, 2006 3:35 PM:

> I think the thing that bothers me the most is that it
> worked 
> for nearly two
> months and THEN just died. I'm wondering if there wasn't
> one 
> of the latest
> updates from Microsoft that killed it. No software other
> than 
> updates has
> been added or installed in that time - this machine is
> pretty 
> much dedicated
> to getting info from home at my office.
> 
> Before, I could make a connection inside the home network
> using the "local"
> IP and also the homedns.org url. Now, I can make only the
> "local" connection - that still works. I even tried from
> the machine 
> itslef - pretty
> wild when you connect to yourself - stacks up browser
> windows 
> like crazy -
> like aiming a video camera at a mirror.
> 
> Jim
> 
Or, your router could have gotten flaky. I had a Linksys BEFSR14 which just
up and died one day... wouldn't dial out on my DSL at all. Maybe something
similar happened to you?