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Site not accessible from home/work, but is elsewhere...eh?
raindog308
Administrator, Veteran
There's a forum I read on a regular basis. A few days ago, I couldn't read it from home...timed out.
Stayed that way for a while. Asked on another forum and people said "works fine for me". Looked at it from a VPS and sure enough, it works fine.
- From my home (CenturyLink DSL) using various PCs, iOS devices - timeout.
- From work (totally different network setup, big company) - timeout.
- down or just me says it's OK.
- wget/lynx from VPS in California - OK.
- iOS device on AT&T 3G - OK
So...what could cause this? When I lookup the DNS it returns the same IP in all places I've tried.
If it was just my home, I'd understand maybe something goofy on my end...but work as well, which is a different network and ~15 miles from me.
The forum is hosted by LiquidWeb. Last bit of traceroute from home:
8 lw-border6-te1-4.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.215) 186.832 ms 186.963 ms 187.057 ms 9 lw-dc2-core4-te9-1.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.226) 168.678 ms 169.150 ms 169.180 ms 10 lw-dc3-dist8-po6.rtr.liquidweb.com (69.167.128.135) 121.291 ms 123.071 ms 124.743 ms 11 * * * 12 * * *
From a BuyVM VPS:
7 lw-border6-te1-4.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.215) 55.647 ms 54.710 ms 54.223 ms 8 lw-dc2-core4-te9-1.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.226) 62.829 ms 60.591 ms 60.846 ms 9 lw-dc3-dist8-po6.rtr.liquidweb.com (69.167.128.135) 65.302 ms 94.118 ms 62.269 ms 10 69.167.176.141 (69.167.176.141) 63.734 ms 62.585 ms 65.22 ms
Comments
Wht?
try clearing your cache, i had the same problem and did the same solution.
No, it's a firearms forums.
The only thing I can think of is that you were lucky enough to be iptable'd on both your home and work networks although the chances of that happening are probably 0.00000001%.
Did you have a user account on the site and by chance an administrator decided he didn't like you?
Routes fine from my RootBSD server
1 199.48.135.97 (199.48.135.97) 0.531 ms 0.439 ms 0.440 ms
2 204.109.62.109 (204.109.62.109) 0.491 ms 0.605 ms 0.451 ms
3 204.109.62.105 (204.109.62.105) 0.703 ms 0.537 ms 0.509 ms
4 66.18.0.57.databank.com (66.18.0.57) 0.640 ms 0.693 ms 0.712 ms
5 4.28.153.9 (4.28.153.9) 0.675 ms 0.732 ms 0.648 ms
6 vlan80.csw3.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.145.190) 0.810 ms
vlan90.csw4.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.145.254) 1.489 ms 0.803 ms
7 ae-81-81.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.151.150) 0.743 ms
ae-61-61.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.151.126) 1.139 ms
ae-91-91.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.69.151.162) 1.329 ms
8 ae-14-14.ebr2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.151.117) 19.957 ms 19.971 ms 19.768 ms
9 ae-201-3601.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.158.49) 19.847 ms
ae-202-3602.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.158.53) 19.751 ms
ae-203-3603.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.158.57) 19.764 ms
10 CWIE-LLC.edge2.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.59.29.82) 20.134 ms 19.925 ms 20.119 ms
11 lw-core4-te91.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.206) 25.252 ms 25.354 ms 25.312 ms
12 lw-dc3-dist7-po5.rtr.liquidweb.com (69.167.128.129) 25.386 ms 25.759 ms 25.377 ms
13 69.167.176.141 (69.167.176.141) 25.399 ms 25.710 ms 25.491 ms
Maybe your ISP is having routing issues.
I had almost the same problem once, couldnt connect to my ipx vps from home.
Turned out to be blocked by an 'intrusion problem' then.
A ticket then to ipx let me in.
Not saying that it is the same with you but it could.
Liquidweb is blocking those ranges, for whatever reasons.
Your best bet is getting in contact with the forum staff, who can then maybe ask Liquid web.
I guess I'll have to do that, Wintereise.
It's a routing issue, @raindog308.
No need to try client side stuff, straight up contact them
So much for heroic support:
"Thank you for the information. I can assure you that our network is
functioning just fine."