Linux Forums unreachable.

[Ray Parrish]

Tom H wrote:
>>>> 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.
>   
Hello,

I get -

ray at RaysComputer:~$ wget -v -o /home/ray/logs/result.txt -O - 
www.linuxforums.org

in the results.txt file is -

--17:23:44--  http://www.linuxforums.org/
           => `-'
Resolving www.linuxforums.org... 174.132.123.98
Connecting to www.linuxforums.org|174.132.123.98|:80... failed: 
Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--17:28:55--  http://www.linuxforums.org/
  (try: 2) => `-'
Connecting to www.linuxforums.org|174.132.123.98|:80...

And theplanet.com comes up just fine in my web browser.

Later, Ray Parrish

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