Baffled by a Cable Modem solved

[John Aldrich]

On Thursday 18 June 2009, dnvot at yahoo.com wrote:
> My problem is solved, at least for now. My reservation is becauser I
> don't know what I did. Last night I tried to be sure I had no filters
> interfering., I turned off the firewall, booted and tried firefox and
> dillo. Neither worked. I made selinux permissive, rebooted and tried
> dillo and firefox. Neither worked. I went to bed. This morning I tried
> Puppy Linux, and it worked fine. So I tried ubuntu, and that worked
> fine. ( I had failed with both of them yesterday.)  So I booted fedora
> and firefox -- success. I was baffled in the beginning, and I am more
> baffled now.
> I thank you all for your efforts. I tried ( to the best of my abilities)
> to implement all the suggestions, but I don't believe I ever really
> changed anything permanently. I am OK for now, but Who knows; maybe it
> only works on thursdays.>
My guess... your ISP had something messed up and just waiting fixed it. :-) 
Even if you called them, they probably would have denied there was anything 
wrong. Or, they might have admitted they had an outage or something. You 
never know. :-)