[lug] Connection problems from Europe

Michael Belanger mrb at ciclops.org
Thu Mar 11 09:41:42 MST 2004


I wonder what their machines see when trying to ping/traceroute that IP 
address..

Have they rebooted?  ;)

Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> 
> 
>>My first instinct is that perhaps there was a brief outage that was
>>cached -- either DNS or the webserver itself..  Clearing their
>>browser's cache may fix it.. Especially if they can get to other
>>sites on the same server.
> 
> 
> Yeah, that was my first instinct as well. ;)
> 
> However, the DNS *does* resolve properly:
> 
> PING doublearon.org (204.144.129.166): 56 data bytes
> --- doublearon.org ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> It gets the IP, but has no connection.  But the same server, on a 
> different IP, shows:
> 
> PING bitrelay.net (204.144.129.168): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 204.144.129.168: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=142.249 ms
> --- bitrelay.net ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 142.249/142.249/142.249 ms
> 
> (And doing the ping from, say, a U.S.-based machine works fine in both 
> cases.)
> 
> Thanks anyway... any other thoughts?
> 
> Jeff
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