Re: Linux Forums unreachable.

Tom H wrote:
Is anyone else having trouble accessing the Linux Forms? Here is what I
get -



>Network Timeout



>The server at www.linuxforums.org is taking too long to respond.



>The requested site did not respond to a connection request and the
browser has >stopped waiting for a reply.



A useful tool to check if the problem is at your end is
downforeveryoneorjustme.com:
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.linuxforums.org



Seems like it's just at your end.



I do not think it is a DNS problem, as I used the following Python code
to retrieve the ip address of lunuxforums.org as 174.132.123.98, and
attempted to connect to that ip address with my web browser [Firefox],
and was unable to connect.



Address = socket.getaddrinfo("www.linuxforums.org", None)
Address

[(2, 1, 6, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 2, 17, '',
('174.132.123.98', 0)), (2, 3, 0, '', ('174.132.123.98', 0))]



I then verified the retireved ip address with the following query, which
down quite a ways verifiies that ip address as being linuxforums.org.



ray@RaysComputer:~$ whois 174.132.123.98


What is the output of
dig +short linuxforums.org
dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org
traceroute linuxforums.org
traceroute -T linuxforums.org

FYI:

- whois is of no use for connectivity (unless a site's registration
has lapsed of course)

- sometimes more than one site is hosted at an ip address so going to
that address in Firefox will most likely take you where you want to go

- I can only admire your obsession with scripting but there are
regular tools (with flexible options) for resolving addresses
(although I assume that the "none" above must mean that you can feed
your script a different DNS server to be queried)


dig +short linuxforums.org

174.132.123.98

dig +short @8.8.8.8 linuxforums.org

174.132.123.98

traceroute linuxforums.org

ray@RaysComputer:~$ traceroute linuxforums.org
traceroute to linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 eugn-dsl-gw09-201.eugn.qwest.net (67.42.192.201) 41.350 ms 42.902
ms 44.630 ms
3 eugn-agw1.inet.qwest.net (67.42.193.65) 46.924 ms 49.220 ms *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 cr2.st6wa.ip.att.net (12.122.146.174) 99.645 ms 101.175 ms 103.660 ms
9 cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net (12.122.1.77) 105.271 ms 107.052 ms *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 te9-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.14) 99.136 ms
te7-2.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.26) 100.967 ms 98.933 ms
14 * * 86.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com (70.87.253.134) 105.542 ms
15 * * *
16 www.linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98) 99.159 ms 98.833 ms 99.290 ms

traceroute -T linuxforums.org
ray@RaysComputer:~$ sudo traceroute -T linuxforums.org
[sudo] password for ray:
traceroute to linuxforums.org (174.132.123.98), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 eugn (67.42.192.201) 40.204 ms 41.467 ms 43.038 ms
3 eugn (67.42.193.65) 44.163 ms 45.436 ms *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 cr2.st6wa.ip.att.net (12.122.146.174) 99.496 ms 100.239 ms 101.370 ms
9 cr2.dvmco.ip.att.net (12.122.1.77) 103.090 ms 103.970 ms *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 te7-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.10) 98.550 ms * *
14 * * *
15 te6-1.car13.dllstx6.theplanet.com (70.87.254.238) 102.195 ms
103.890 ms te5-1.car13.dllstx6.theplanet.com (70.87.254.234) 109.829 ms
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *
19 * * *
20 * * *
21 * * *
22 * * *
23 * * *
24 * * *
25 * * *
26 * * *
27 * * *
28 * * *
29 * * *
30 * * *

Does that yield any clues? I note that linuxforums.org is not listed at
the end of the last command's output.

Later, Ray Parrish

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