[H-GEN] Problems accessing sites

Mon Oct 20 16:50:29 EDT 2003

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Try a telnet directly to the port, i.e telnet www.qfm.org.au 80.  Also, what
are your proxy settings, if they are set in the environment (http_proxy),
they could be incorrect, and the proxy is giving the 0 sized reply rather
than the website.

Regards,
Tony 

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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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