On 01-Sep-07 21:28:22, Chris G wrote:
Yes, that's right, but I still can't see it! Just about everything else seems to be OK so it must be some wierd DNS type problem I guess with my ISP. .... no, not a DNS problem, I can't get to 207.36.201.119 either.
However if I ssh to somewhere else and then use Lynx to access http://htmlhelp.com/ it works fine. So it would seem to be some sort of routing issue. Running traceroute to htmlhelp.com grinds to a halt after 17 hops.
It's rather odd actually, from the other site (that I ssh'ed to) I get:-
... ... ... 11 66.113.197.54 (66.113.197.54) 101.976 ms 102.833 ms 102.855ms 12 e1-3.co2.as30217.net (84.40.24.101) 103.306 ms 103.715 ms 105.891 ms 13 e49te.dr5.as30217.net (84.40.24.82) 107.886 ms * * 14 66.230.227.170 (66.230.227.170) 106.569 ms 123.725 ms 103.507 ms 15 zaphod.htmlhelp.com (207.36.201.119) 105.921 ms 102.421 ms 103.245 ms
Whereas from home I get:-
... ... ... 14 66.113.197.54 (66.113.197.54) 136.029 ms 136.216 ms 137.974ms 15 * * * 16 e49te.dr5.as30217.net (84.40.24.82) 137.665 ms * * 17 66.230.227.170 (66.230.227.170) 138.291 ms 137.107 ms 135.996 ms 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * *
The route up to 66.113.197.54 is basically the same for both.
Any ideas what's going on anyone?
Hmmm, tried a traceroute myself (goes via Zen at Rochdale):
OK for the first dozen or so hops. Then got a bit of a hang at e49te.dr5.as30217.net:
16 66.113.197.54 (66.113.197.54) 148.664 ms 146.333 ms 152.145 ms 17 e1-3.co2.as30217.net (84.40.24.101) 146.926 ms 147.538 ms 150.903 ms 18 e49te.dr5.as30217.net (84.40.24.82) 155.058 ms * * 19 66.230.227.170 (66.230.227.170) 147.638 ms 147.870 ms 150.626 ms 20 zaphod.htmlhelp.com (207.36.201.119) 146.963 ms 146.101 ms 153.605 ms
Then tried it again for reproducibility: My ADSL connection froze as soon as I hit 'ENTER'!
Re-booted router, tried again. Same hang (about 5secs) at the "*" for the same server:
17 e1-3.co2.as30217.net (84.40.24.101) 146.678 ms 149.868 ms 147.863 ms 18 e49te.dr5.as30217.net (84.40.24.82) 147.411 ms * 149.251 ms 19 66.230.227.170 (66.230.227.170) 147.694 ms 146.731 ms 147.627 ms 20 zaphod.htmlhelp.com (207.36.201.119) 147.938 ms 146.480 ms 148.859 ms
This time it gets as far as:
12 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (213.248.83.65) 111.954 ms nyk-bb1-pos7-2-0.telia.net (213.248.82.13) 112.318 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.83.225) 112.293 ms 13 ash-bb1-pos7-0-0-0.telia.net (213.248.80.138) 119.659 ms ash-bb1-pos6-0-0-0.telia.net (213.248.80.69) 120.385 ms ash-bb1-pos7-0-0-0.telia.net (213.248.80.138) 120.639 ms
and it has been hung at that point now for about 2 minutes! (By the way that's a weird tripple return at Hop 13). Next:
14 80.91.251.86 (80.91.251.86) 132.750 ms * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * *
and at this point I stop!
Looks like something very flaky along the line.
Ted.
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