getting to linuxchix.org (was) [Techtalk] Politeness and the purpose of Techtalk

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 31 October 2004 2:59 am, David Sumbler wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Claudine Chionh wrote:
> 
> > Grrltalk and grrls-only are two different mailing lists: grrltalk is
> > open to anyone.
> >
> > http://www.linuxchix.org/content/docs/faqs/grrltalk.html
> 
> If you can get to it: I haven't been able to access the LinuxChix
> web-site for days.  I can ping it, but browsers come up with messages
> like "linuxchix.org contacted.  Waiting for reply."  No reply comes,
> though.
> 
> David

Try these two tests:

1. run some remote traceroutes from traceroute.org. This will give you an idea 
if the problem is local to you, or more widespread.

2. run the excellent utility mtr from your pc, like this:

$ mtr linuxchix.org

Give it a hundred passes or so. This might pinpoint a bottleneck between your 
PC and linuxchix.org. Usually when you get timeouts like you describe, 
there's some big packet loss somewhere.

See http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3427771 for 
more information on mtr.

The other possibility is something is awry at the linuxchix.org server, but 
that seems less likely, as many people have no trouble accessing it

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