Meta: Request for traceroute output

Some folks have been complaining they cant get to SSR, it looks like timeouts are the culprits. It may be that SSR/AFC/Newcopia is saturating my broadband connections.

Could the editors that see this article please post the output of traceroutes (linux/OSX) or tracert (Win32) to southsearepublic.org in a comment please?

I suspect we may be killing the connection through our popularity with punters and spammers.
Permalink, Meta: Request for traceroute output, Jun 2005, cam
avocadia: trace from 205.196.218.202:  1  gw-66-33-192-1 (66.33.192.1)  0.558 ms  0.387 ms  0.762 ms
 2  gw-L3 (4.78.192.65)  0.445 ms  0.461 ms  0.422 ms
 3  ae-1-55.bbr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.129)  0.692 ms  0.484 ms  0.503 ms
 4  ae-0-0.bbr1.Washington1.Level3.net (64.159.0.229)  62.457 ms 4.68.128.201 (4.68.128.201)  62.237 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.Washington1.Level3.net (64.159.0.229)  62.607 ms
 5  vlan53.car3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.121.80)  62.975 ms vlan55.car3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.121.144)  62.933 ms vlan51.car3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.121.16)  62.891 ms
 6  4.79.168.250 (4.79.168.250)  59.517 ms  59.448 ms  59.622 ms
 7  skynet-2.gw.iad.scnet.net (64.202.119.46)  60.917 ms  60.198 ms  60.971 ms
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Scrymarch: I\'m on dialup: I usually get to the site ok though.

  1     *      221 ms   197 ms  edge1.iseek.com.au [202.83.73.3]
  2   190 ms   197 ms   209 ms  7206-core1.iseek.com.au [202.83.73.1]
  3   200 ms   197 ms   209 ms  vlan204.14vrc76f06.optus.net.au [61.88.151.13]
  4   371 ms   375 ms   377 ms  203.208.148.101
  5   364 ms   377 ms   377 ms  203.208.168.254
  6   388 ms   371 ms   365 ms  354.ae0.cr1.pao1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.153.5]
  7   435 ms   449 ms   437 ms  0.so-2-1-0.cr1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.102
]
  8   454 ms   449 ms   449 ms  ge0-2-0.j1.iad.scnet.net [64.202.119.169]
  9   435 ms   449 ms   449 ms  ge2-7.b2.iad.scnet.net [66.225.244.210]
 10   436 ms   449 ms   449 ms  skynet-2.gw.iad.scnet.net [64.202.119.46]
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
cam: It looks like the torturous path: you navigate is longer than what one person who cant reach the site is experiencing.

I dont know why they cant get on the site.....

cam
cam: Incidentally: This is an example of the spam problem (for seven days in June);

Viewed traffic : pages 3732 : 86.92 MB
Not viewed traffic : 2275 : 32.95 MB

I have the SetEnvIfNoCase regexp in httpd.conf now, which is routing the referer spam to 403 forbidden\'s. It appears to be working, but for a while there Mexico was the highest volume domain for us.

cam
avocadia: Last night: I had an error reaching the site, but wasn\'t fast enough on the uptake to note what it was before I refreshed. After the refresh, it worked fine.
cam: Bryan still cant get in: I trimmed down the site so it wasnt sending as many bytes upstream. He sent me traceroute, which means he can resolve the site. The only thing I can think of is that his ISP, or my ISP is blcoking the other ISP. Maybe someone has a porn site on this IP block and the whole IP range is getting banned. Work banned www.mail-archive.com because it was on the same IP range as a porn site. It had to be white-listed.

That is the only thing I can think of. Anyone have other ideas?

cam
cam: I have taken this up with the ISP:
Scrymarch: Bryan Palmer?: He\'s linking to us from the OzPolitics blog, perhaps it works now?

PS is there any way to add trackbacks manually?
cam: I think his ISP may be banning this subnet: He says he can get to the site from his work. But at home, he cannot. Dave Tiley (of Barista blog) has the same issues.

Since I am hosting this on a mini-itx in my basement, on a residential account with an ISP, who doesnt filter at all, I wouldnt be surprised if there is someone with a site on this subnet that is an open relay, or is hosting objectionable content.

If Bryan\'s ISP outsources filtering to some company that band subnets, instead of IPs, then SSR could be cut off for him.

As to SSR being on his RSS feed. His site would be hosted at an ISP, so the querying would be from there.

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