Distrowatch down for several days?

[Vincenzo Di Massa]

Dumb question:
are you using a proxy server?

can you try to telnet to port 80:

$ telnet 66.180.174.35 80

Does it work?


Alle 20:07, venerdì 29 aprile 2005, Ari Torhamo ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:45 +0100, Gary Coady wrote:
>
> Sorry for it took so long for me to answer - had to be away from my PC
> for a while.
>
> I tried pinging the IP address as Vince suggested and I guess it didn't
> work. I waited for several 5 minutes and this is all I got - I suppose
> this is a time out?
>
> PING distrowatch.com (66.180.174.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> > There's another possibility for this problem that comes to mind - broken
> > PMTU discovery.
> >
> > Try
> > sudo sh -c "echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc"
>
> Tried this too but still no Distrowatch :-(
>
> > Longer-term, a better fix would be to find out who is responsible for
> > blocking ICMP type 3 packets, and asking nicely for them to be let
> > through :-) The responsible machine could be any box between your
> > machine and the problematic server, though.
>
> I really would like to find out who is blocking my ICMP type 3 packets -
> after all it's an outrageous thing to do, isn't it :-) It's just that I
> don't know anything about this kind of things and I'm not sure if I can
> afford to spend the time to learn myself. Maybe I will just have to give
> up for now and learn to live without Distrowatch :-/
>
> Thanks for trying to help :-)
>
> Ari Torhamo