Linux Forums unreachable.

[Ray Parrish]

Tom H wrote:
>>>> Is anyone else having trouble accessing the Linux Forms? Here is what I
>>>> get -
>>>>         
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>   
>>>>  >Network Timeout
>>>>         
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>>>>  >The server at www.linuxforums.org is taking too long to respond.
>>>>         
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>   
>>>>  >The requested site did not respond to a connection request and the
>>>> browser has >stopped waiting for a reply.
>>>>         
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>   
>>> A useful tool to check if the problem is at your end is
>>> downforeveryoneorjustme.com:
>>> http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.linuxforums.org
>>>       
>
>   
>>> Seems like it's just at your end.
>>>       
>
>   
>> I do not think it is a DNS problem, as I used the following Python code
>> to retrieve the ip address of lunuxforums.org as 174.132.123.98, and
>> attempted to connect to that ip address with my web browser [Firefox],
>> and was unable to connect.
>>     
>
>   
>>>>>> Address = socket.getaddrinfo("www.linuxforums.org", None)
>>>>>> Address
>>>>>>             
>>> [(2, 1, 6, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 2, 17, '',
>>> ('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 3, 0, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0))]
>>>       
>
>   
>> I then verified the retireved ip address with the following query, which
>> down quite a ways verifiies that ip address as being linuxforums.org.
>>     
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>> ray at RaysComputer:~$ whois 174.132.123.98
>>     
>
> What is the output of
> dig +short linuxforums.org
> dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org
> traceroute linuxforums.org
> traceroute -T linuxforums.org
>
> FYI:
>
> - whois is of no use for connectivity (unless a site's registration
> has lapsed of course)
>
> - sometimes more than one site is hosted at an ip address so going to
> that address in Firefox will most likely take you where you want to go
>
> - I can only admire your obsession with scripting but there are
> regular tools (with flexible options) for resolving addresses
> (although I assume that the "none" above must mean that you can feed
> your script a different DNS server to be queried)
>   

dig +short linuxforums.org

174.132.123.98

dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org

174.132.123.98

traceroute linuxforums.org

ray at RaysComputer:~$ traceroute linuxforums.org
traceroute to linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  eugn-dsl-gw09-201.eugn.qwest.net (67.42.192.201)  41.350 ms  42.902 
ms  44.630 ms
 3  eugn-agw1.inet.qwest.net (67.42.193.65)  46.924 ms  49.220 ms *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  cr2.st6wa.ip.att.net (12.122.146.174)  99.645 ms  101.175 ms  103.660 ms
 9  cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net (12.122.1.77)  105.271 ms  107.052 ms *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  te9-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.14)  99.136 ms 
te7-2.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.26)  100.967 ms  98.933 ms
14  * * 86.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com (70.87.253.134)  105.542 ms
15  * * *
16  www.linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98)  99.159 ms  98.833 ms  99.290 ms

traceroute -T linuxforums.org
ray at RaysComputer:~$ sudo traceroute -T linuxforums.org
[sudo] password for ray:
traceroute to linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  * * *
 2  eugn (67.42.192.201)  40.204 ms  41.467 ms  43.038 ms
 3  eugn (67.42.193.65)  44.163 ms  45.436 ms *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  cr2.st6wa.ip.att.net (12.122.146.174)  99.496 ms  100.239 ms  101.370 ms
 9  cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net (12.122.1.77)  103.090 ms  103.970 ms *
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  te7-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.10)  98.550 ms * *
14  * * *
15  te6-1.car13.dllstx6.theplanet.com (70.87.254.238)  102.195 ms  
103.890 ms te5-1.car13.dllstx6.theplanet.com (70.87.254.234)  109.829 ms
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * * *
28  * * *
29  * * *
30  * * *

Does that yield any clues? I note that linuxforums.org is not listed at 
the end of the last command's output.

Later, Ray Parrish

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