[plug] The world has disappeared

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

Seems like westnet don't like people tracerouting to their server...

I find it handy to keep a couple of know IP addresses
(for example : google : 216.239.39.99) handy, so
if DNS goes down I can still test out to the world etc....

Indy



On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:53:12AM +1000, Kimberly Shelt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:43:38PM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> > Trouble is, these days it appears my ISP blocks it, and I never get 
> > any further than:
> 
> 
> > 
> > [root at neddy steve]# traceroute -n westnet.com.au
> > traceroute to westnet.com.au (203.10.1.20), 30 hops max, 38 byte 
> > packets
> >  1  192.168.1.253  0.416 ms  0.316 ms  0.310 ms
> >  2  202.72.191.217  118.471 ms  119.909 ms  120.002 ms
> >  3  202.72.191.193  119.929 ms  119.924 ms  119.978 ms
> >  4  * * *
> > 15  *
> > etc
> > 
> ouch.. that is nasty :(
> 
> misskim at allmine:~/numbers$ traceroute -n www.westnet.com.au
> traceroute to www.westnet.com.au (203.10.1.20), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>  1  192.168.0.99  0.358 ms  0.252 ms  0.248 ms
>  2  203.9.190.192  203.743 ms  139.574 ms  149.874 ms
>  3  203.100.248.249  139.829 ms  139.813 ms  149.771 ms
>  4  198.32.212.6  149.746 ms  159.916 ms  159.750 ms
>  5  * * *
>  6  * * *
> 
>  Intersting.... 
> 
> Kim

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