[mythtv-users] Zap2it outage?

[chris@cpr.homelinux.net]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:51:25AM -0800, Anthony Floyd wrote:
> Either the problem is my ISP (Shaw, in Vancouver) blocking access or
> Zap2It blocking access.

I'm on Shaw in Burnaby and haven't had any problems.  Someone on the 
VanLUG list mentioned that Shaw is renumbering their subnets again, 
and when I checked mine I noticed that it had changed.  Usually 
there's some overlap where both the old and new gateways are 
available, but this time they seem to be doing a clean cut-over as 
they finish each area.  If you're like me and use a Linksys (or 
equivalent) router between your Linux box and the cable connection 
then it will pick up the new IP address and gateway OK, but the DNS 
server information in your Linux box may not be up to date unless you 
have a cron job that screen-scrapes the router's web interface.  It's 
always a good idea to configure your dns proxy with a few alternate 
DNS servers outside of your ISP just in case.

The only other thing to consider is the time of day of your zap2it 
requests.  If you're still trying to get your schedule in the middle 
of the night then it's possible your connection is being dropped 
because there are too many simultaneous requests being processed.  I 
did as zap2it requested and changed my system so it would stop asking 
at night.  I've never had any connections refused and the downloads 
seem to happen much faster.

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