[H-GEN] Problems accessing sites
Peter Arnold
arnoldpj at optusnet.com.au
Mon Oct 20 16:24:52 EDT 2003
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Paul Clarke wrote:
G'day Paul,
It doesn't work for me, I'm not sure what's wrong with it but heres my experience.
>
> What does work:
> I can in both configurations, ping the server, get a complete
> traceroute, ftp the server (haven't tried on the debian box as I don't
> know the commands), receive email from the server, get any other site on
> the www.
bash-2.05$ nslookup www.qfm.org.au
Server: meg.pjama.loc
Address: 192.168.200.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.qfm.org.au
Address: 216.127.68.19
bash-2.05$ ping 216.127.68.19
216.127.68.19 is alive
>
> What doesn't work:
> I can not access the web site using either IE 6 or links on the
> respective machines. It times out.
I get the same using Mozilla 1.2.1 through a squid proxy ala
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.qfm.org.au/
The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.
Your cache administrator is webmaster.
Generated Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:05:31 GMT by proxy.pjama.loc (squid/2.5.STABLE3)
>
> I have contacted Rackshack, but the site works. I have contacted
> Optusnet and we have gone through all the configuration, eventually they
> said that as I can ping and traceroute that they are serving the sites
> and it is something on my system.
My money is on ether the web server or someone somewhere is filtering/fscking_with (cache maybe) web traffic here and there. Is there another web site on rackshack you can try? Is the site a virtual server, maybe you can try accessing the IP or a known file on the site (ie full URL to file).
>
> Here is the tracert (win xp as that is the box I am on at the moment):
> Tracing route to www.qfm.org.au [216.127.68.19]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
<snip>
bash-2.05$ traceroute 216.127.68.19
traceroute to 216.127.68.19 (216.127.68.19), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 meg (192.168.200.1) 1.129 ms 2.146 ms 5.264 ms
2 10.55.0.1 (10.55.0.1) 7.743 ms 8.353 ms 8.811 ms
3 rdl4-pos2-4.gw.optusnet.com.au (198.142.192.117) 10.263 ms 9.218 ms 29.491 ms
4 mas1-pos6-1.gw.optusnet.com.au (198.142.139.117) 28.980 ms 19.599 ms 18.041 ms
5 mas5-ge3-4.gw.optusnet.com.au (211.29.129.37) 18.708 ms 19.762 ms 19.900 ms
6 mas3-ge2-1.gw.optusnet.com.au (211.29.129.33) 20.177 ms 19.529 ms 20.107 ms
7 pos1-2.ig6.optus.net.au (61.88.178.89) 19.938 ms 19.723 ms 20.068 ms
8 bpr2-so-6-0-0.LosAngeles.cw.net (208.173.55.149) 168.753 ms 168.616 ms 177.232 ms
9 208.173.55.186 (208.173.55.186) 168.848 ms 168.824 ms 168.159 ms
10 dllstx1wcx3-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.240.5) 206.301 ms 204.555 ms 205.138 ms
11 dllstx1wcx2-pos9-0.wcg.net (64.200.110.129) 205.093 ms 204.873 ms 210.220 ms
12 hstntx1wce2-pos4-0.wcg.net (64.200.240.74) 204.736 ms 206.229 ms 215.605 ms
13 hstntx1wce2-everyonesinternet-gige.wcg.net (65.77.93.54) 208.075 ms 206.769 ms 204.935 ms
14 207.218.245.35 (207.218.245.35) 219.395 ms 219.766 ms 220.738 ms
15 * *
<snip>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
> Site Dynamics - Paul Clarke
> paul at sitedynamics.com.au
> 0414 367 747
>
>
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