Linux Forums unreachable.

[Tom H]

>>> dig +short linuxforums.org
>>> 174.132.123.98

>>> dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org
>>> 174.132.123.98

>>> 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

>>> 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  * * *

>> 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.

> 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.

I just read an email about using tcptraceroute; it should yield the
same thing as traceroute -T but the poster's email reminded me that
your earlier output shows that it was stopped at
te5-1.car13.dllstx6.theplanet.com
so I still think that you are being blocked - or perhaps more
accurately as someone else pointed out, you are in an ip range that
has been blocked - if not by theplanet.com then by linuxforums.org.