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

David Sumbler david at aeolia.co.uk
Mon Nov 1 06:23:17 EST 2004


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Carla Schroder wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for that advice.  'mtr' is fun, isn't it!  I didn't know about
it before.

These tests all seem to run OK - yet I still can't get to
http://203.7.155.11

I haven't had a problem with any other sites.

Very odd.

David

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