Site interruption

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Did anyone else just have access to the CF interrupted? I tried posting and it timed out. Did a ping and times alternated between 640 ms and network unreachable errors for a few minutes. Latencies finally back to normal, about 50 - 75 ms.

Looks like someone had router troubles for a little bit and they had to find a way around it.

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

sure did
was trying to see if anyone had shouted at me for thread hijacking but timed out

 

I was just curious if this interruption was in my path to the site, or if it was on the last hop into the site. It appears it was as I'm sure my path there is different than those of you from the UK.

 

I noticed it as well. Did a tracert and this is what I got:

C:\Documents and Settings\JMPYLES>tracert 216.193.217.209

Tracing route to 216.193.217.209 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms s11-1-0-25--0.gw01.bois.eli.net [216.190.144.89]

3 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms srp2-0.cr01.bois.eli.net [208.186.20.193]
4 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms so-0-0-0--0.cr02.slkc.eli.net [207.173.114.66]
5 * 192 ms 35 ms so-7-0-0--0.cr01.slkc.eli.net [207.173.115.241]

6 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms p10-0.cr01.rcrd.eli.net [207.173.114.9]
7 28 ms 25 ms 25 ms srp3-0.cr02.rcrd.eli.net [208.186.20.242]
8 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms p9-0.cr01.sntd.eli.net [207.173.114.57]
9 29 ms 29 ms 38 ms so-0-0-0--0.er01.plal.eli.net [207.173.114.138]

10 57 ms 89 ms 52 ms ge-2-1.hsa4.sanjose1.level3.net [209.245.146.25]

11 29 ms 74 ms 29 ms so-2-1-0.bbr2.sanjose1.level3.net [4.68.114.157]

12 90 ms 87 ms 87 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.dallas1.level3.net [64.159.1.109]
13 87 ms 87 ms 272 ms ge-1-1-55.car4.dallas1.level3.net [4.68.122.135]

14 241 ms 258 ms 142 ms ge2-0.cr01.dfw01.mzima.net [4.78.224.94]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 594 ms * * helios.lunarpages.com [216.193.217.209]
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * 419 ms * helios.lunarpages.com [216.193.217.209]
23 591 ms * 598 ms helios.lunarpages.com [216.193.217.209]

Trace complete.

 

Interesting, trip. Even now I can ping the site, but can't get a traceroute return past mzima.net. The router that was returning the destination net unreachable errors was a qwest.net router, and there are still several hops between qwest.net and mzima.net. Kinda strange how that worked. I would have thought that either the first or the last router in the path would have been the one to return the icmp error messages, not one about in the middle.

 

If anybody can figure it out, it's you Freddy. I haven't a clue.

 

I don't have a clue either. It must be something about how the routers are configured, or the routing protocol used, but other than that I'm clueless. I've never even seen one of the advanced routers these trunk providers use.

 

i had a prob getting on the site from here in cyp!!

 

The problem must have been the last router before helios.lunarpages.com. I was rather surpised to see where this site is located, geographically.

 

UK hosting is so much more expensive, I never looked into why. It may be the strength of the pound or it maybe that there just isn't enough competition here to get the prices lower