Linux Forums unreachable.

[Tom H]

>>> 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)
>>>> [(2, 1, 6, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 2, 17, '',
>>>> ('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 3, 0, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0))]

>> What is the output of
>> dig +short linuxforums.org
>> dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org
>> traceroute linuxforums.org
>> traceroute -T linuxforums.org

> dig +short linuxforums.org
> 174.132.123.98

> dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org
> 174.132.123.98

> ray at RaysComputer:~$ traceroute linuxforums.org
> traceroute to linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 16  www.linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98)  99.159 ms  98.833 ms  99.290 ms

> ray at RaysComputer:~$ sudo traceroute -T linuxforums.org
> 13  te7-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.10)  98.550 ms * *
> 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
> 30  * * *

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

1. Your DNS is working.

2. I do not understand the first traceroute. Whether I traceroute from
any version of Linux or from Windows, the end-point is a theplanet.com
box not www.linuxforums.org.

3. I do not understand why traceroute works and traceroute -T does
not. Could you ip address have been blocked by theplanet.com?!
Strangely...

Can you try
wget -v -o /path/to/a/file -O - www.linuxforums.org
as one last test. Thanks.