Re: request time out with one site


Subject: Re: request time out with one site
From: Greg Hagele (ghagele@alaska.net)
Date: Thu Dec 27 2001 - 21:18:02 AKST


A follow-up and more definitive experiment:

I reconnected with my trusty old 56K on my computer to IA and guess what, It
worked, the modem and all the "lost" sites. It's slow but able to get to them
without any problem.

I think it's ACS, but why with the DSL only?

thanks

greg

Jim Gribbin wrote:

> Just noticed something else. Interesting how even tho ASC is supposedly
> combining all the ATU, PTI, & IA servers, we get compleatly different
> routing, right from the start.
>
> Just remembered, I used to have a problem getting to ANANDTECH from home
> using IA but I could get there without problem from work using GCI. I
> cann't find it now, but someone had a link to an arcticle about how
> there were some pages that were not possble to get to from some
> locations. Nobody understood why this happens - one of the great
> internet mysteries.
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 00:34, Greg Hagele wrote:
> >
> > That's kind of what I was thinking. I use ACS and have been running DSL;
> > and until they just switched over to a new server, had no problems with
> > this site or any other one for that matter. There is an other sites I
> > can't get to also http://www.bp.com is one.
> >
> > Here is the type of trace I get with the sites I can't get to (below).
> > Would it be logical to think that there is something at the ACS server
> > that's not letting this and other sites through. Also why only selected
> > sites, not all, could it be net congestion? or more likely the proxy
> > idea?. Any ideas? The more I know before I call ACS the more help I may
> > get from them, if in fact the problem is there.
> >
> > Tracing route to www.bp.com [208.254.0.207]
> > over a maximum of 30 hops:
> >
> > 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.7.1
> > 2 51 ms 49 ms 49 ms 172.16.254.254
> > 3 47 ms 48 ms 46 ms 10.1.254.2
> > 4 49 ms 47 ms 47 ms fe4-1-0-cr1a.nwc.acsalaska.net
> > [198.70.245.1]
> > 5 * 76 ms 75 ms s8-0-0-cr1.sea.acsalaska.net
> > [208.151.100.166]
> > 6 75 ms 77 ms 78 ms aanet-sea.above.net [209.249.0.161]
> > 7 79 ms 77 ms 77 ms core3-core4-oc3.sea1.above.net
> > [208.185.175.93]
> >
> > 8 125 ms 127 ms 127 ms ord2-sea1-oc48-2.ord2.above.net
> > [208.184.232.57
> >
> > 9 126 ms 125 ms 127 ms core3-core2-oc48.ord2.above.net
> > [208.185.0.194]
> >
> > 10 132 ms 130 ms 130 ms uunet-abovenet-oc12.ord2.above.net
> > [208.184.231
> > 50]
> > 11 143 ms 143 ms 132 ms 0.so-5-3-0.XL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET
> > [152.63.68.178]
> > 12 132 ms 130 ms 132 ms 0.so-2-0-0.TL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET
> > [152.63.67.109]
> > 13 164 ms 155 ms 222 ms 0.so-3-0-0.TL2.DCA6.ALTER.NET
> > [152.63.19.170]
> > 14 167 ms 153 ms 152 ms 0.so-6-0-0.XL2.DCA6.ALTER.NET
> > [152.63.38.74]
> > 15 156 ms 157 ms 157 ms 0.so-6-0-0.WR2.IAD6.ALTER.NET
> > [152.63.39.117]
> > 16 154 ms 155 ms 234 ms 0.so-1-0-0.UR2.IAD6.Alter.Net
> > [157.130.59.82]
> > 17 253 ms 156 ms 156 ms 206.112.64.37
> > 18 156 ms 155 ms 153 ms 206.112.65.36
> > 19 217 ms 157 ms 157 ms 208.254.2.5
> > 20 * * * Request timed out.
> > 21 * * * Request timed out.
> > 22 * *
> >
> > It then goes on like this until it's stopped
> >
> > greg
> > ----------------------
> > James McMorris wrote:
> >
> > > This is probably no help, but I was able to see both sites with IE6 on
> > > a Windows machine.
> > >
> > > By chance, it there a proxy somewhere between you and the site that's
> > > blocking it? (This is the only "constructive" idea I had.)
> > >
> > > -Jim "Buddha" McMorris
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Greg Hagele <ghagele@alaska.net>
> > > Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 2:44 pm
> > > Subject: request time out with one site
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have been attempting to get into my banking site. when i try
> > > > going to the
> > > > secure page, from the main page, http://www.wellsfargo.com (click
> > > > on the Online
> > > > Banking top right corner) the page will not load. It just says
> > > > "contactedhost waiting for reply" and never loads. I called the
> > > > guys down in the lower
> > > > 48 and they said the direct page was banking.wellsfargo.com
> > > > I attempted that but no joy, they said they had no problems
> > > > getting in to the
> > > > page there. I can get to other secure sites and surf without
> > > > delay. Any ideas
> > > > on why this page may be not letting me in. I have tried a couple
> > > > of different
> > > > computers and web browser Explore and Netscape with the same result.
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > > greg
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >



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