[Techtalk] LinkedIn Ubuntu connection weirdness

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:43:49PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Meryll Larkin thought:
> 
> 
> MLL:  My successful connection from home - same laptop (where I start with
> my own router and then go to Verizon)
> 
> traceroute to linkedin.com (64.74.98.86), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.868 ms  1.246 ms  2.234 ms
> ....  stuff in here deleted for brevity ....
>  7  tge2-2.fr3.sjc.llnw.net (69.28.171.145) 45.998 ms 48.080 ms 50.833 ms
>  8  tge9-4.fr4.ord.llnw.net (69.28.172.78) 98.811 ms 101.568 ms 114.831 ms
>  9  linkedin.tge3-2.fr4.ord.llnw.net (208.111.156.74) 109.410 ms 112.220 ms
> 114.831 ms
> 10  * * *
> 11  * * *
>   -  deleted for brevity - all ***
> 30  * * * 
> 
> MLL:  Eventhough I reach LinkedIn fine from home, I'm puzzled that the last
> entry in Traceroute doesn't match the destination (64.74.98.86).

AIUI, the firewall at the next hop beyond 208.111.156.74 won't allow the
traceroute packets (or the reply or something) so traceroute cannot go
further.  There are more hops to LinkedIn that you won't see.
 
> MLL:  when I put http://208.111.156.74 into my browser, it times out.
>       when I put http://64.74.98.86  or http://64.74.98.80 into my browser
> from home, I get connected to LinkedIn.

Next thing is to try connecting by IP address from the coffee shop...
 
Conor
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