On 09/06/13 13:26, (Ted Harding) wrote:
Greetings all!
I am having trouble connecting to
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
which just hangs indefinitely for me. A traceroute
traceroute oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
proceeds reasonably rapidly down to step 11, which is where it hangs:
10 * 178.236.0.58 (178.236.0.58) 59.452 ms 178.236.3.129 (178.236.3.129) 64.219 ms
11 ec2-79-125-0-77.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (79.125.0.77) 57.412 ms ec2-79-125-0-73.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (79.125.0.73) 68.999 ms ec2-79-125-0-5.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (79.125.0.5) 57.819 ms 12 * * *
This may be a problem to do with routing via my ISP's DNS lookups. The ISP in question is zen.co.uk.
The server 178.236.0.58 at the preceding step (10) is (from whois):
inetnum: 178.236.0.0 - 178.236.7.255 netname: IE-AMAZON descr: Amazon Data Services Ireland
Any comments?
Seems to work OK here (Mint and Firefox) but wanted to set a handful of cookies - far more than there is any excuse to need. (More than eight! I allowed the first two - pro tem, - and refused the rest.)
/thought/ Who on earth would want to learn American English? (I think they mean US English... Ed)