> This suggests that the failure in your case was that your router had no > connection to your ISP.
Thanks for the detailed and helpful information.
As it happens. my ISP's support forums are reporting DNS troubles at about the same time I had troubles, so I guess there were problems with the ISP (although they themselves don't mention any problems). -- http://www.decohen.com Send e-mail to the Reply-To address; mail to the From address is never read
