Linux Forums unreachable.

[Ray Parrish]

Tom H wrote:
>>>> dig +short linuxforums.org
>>>> 174.132.123.98
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>>>> dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org
>>>> 174.132.123.98
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>>>> 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
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>>>> 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  * * *
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>>> 1. Your DNS is working.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 3. I do not understand why traceroute works and traceroute -T does
>>> not. Could you ip address have been blocked by theplanet.com?!
>>> Strangely...
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>>> Can you try
>>> wget -v -o /path/to/a/file -O - www.linuxforums.org
>>> as one last test. Thanks.
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>> wget -v -o /home/ray/logs/result.txt -O - www.linuxforums.org
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>> 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...
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>> And theplanet.com comes up just fine in my web browser.
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> 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.
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Why would they block Qwest DSL customers? That's my isp.

Later, Ray Parrish

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