Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello,

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 00:35, John Murphy wrote:
> "Edmund Craske" <edmund at m00is.net> wrote:
> 
> >Argh! I'm always the last to put it down to the dreaded i word, but...
> >INCOMPETENCE!
> 
> True.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> >Really pisses me off this.., I'm quite fond of the FreeBSDforums
> >> >site, one of the best *bsd-related forum site I've come across.., 
> >> >too.
> >> 
> >> I can't get to http://www.freebsdforums.org/ either!
> >> 
> >
> >Sorry but.., AT LAST!!!!!! I'm not going crazy.., and it might be that
> >there's some sanity to what Zen is telling me?
> >
> >> The temporary fix for me is to use the ISP's web-cache :(
> >> 
> >
> >No such option for me :-(
> 
> You may be able to find a web proxy you can use.  You could even try
> blueyonder's at webcache.blueyonder.co.uk (port 3128 or 8080) but
> I've no idea if it works for outsiders.
> 

No it doesn't.., I've got a friend (another FreeBSD'er) that's on
blueyonder's broadband solution that suggested that to me already..,

> <snipped the traceroute>
> 
> >Note here that you don't appear to actually *get* to freebsdforums' IP:
> >>From nslookup for freebsdforums.org :
> >Non-authoritative answer:
> >Name:    freebsdforums.org
> >Address:  207.174.189.161
> 
> Yes, just can't get there directly but going via the cache the routers
> only see the IP of the cache so the packets flow un-filtered.
> 
> >I'm trying to force Zen to increase their efforts in doing whatever
> >they're able to do for me, but its a nightmare getting through to tech
> >support to even begin that process.., 
> 
> One thing I'll say for blueyonder is that their internal support newsgroups
> are just great for reporting problems and they seem to be trying _very_
> hard (aided by RIPE) to get these routes sorted.  They'll have another
> route to add to the list tomorrow :)
> 

I can only dream ....,

> >For now, I'm trying to google around for what I might need to do in
> >order that I can get traceroute to work for my *nix boxes here.., 
> 
> If you're using a recent version (4.8 or greater) try traceroute -P ICMP
> sometimes seems to work where other protocols fail.
> 

Well..., whatdya know:
$ traceroute -P ICMP www.bbc.co.uk
traceroute to www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.224.124), 64 hops max, 64 byte
packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.417 ms  0.384 ms  0.335 ms
 2  galileo-dsl1.hq.zen.net.uk (62.3.82.2)  17.660 ms  77.829 ms  19.644
ms
 3  heraclitus-ve-22.hq.zen.net.uk (62.3.80.126)  18.402 ms  18.188 ms 
17.661 ms
 4  deleuze-ge-0-2-0.hq.zen.net.uk (62.3.80.81)  16.916 ms  17.831 ms 
17.347 ms
 5  suarez-so-0-0-0.te.zen.net.uk (62.3.80.62)  24.916 ms  25.267 ms 
24.688 ms 6  rt-linx-a.thdo.bbc.co.uk (195.66.224.103)  25.163 ms 
60.780 ms  27.873 ms
 7  www24.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.124)  25.640 ms  46.051 ms  25.093
ms
$

Man.., I can't believe that this has been sitting here under my nose for
so long and I didn't think of it.., I *did* check the man page, but,
silly me, I didn't read past the references to tcp & udp.

Thanks so much John.

Regards,

Stacey

> >Thanks again for that..,
> 
> Glad to have helped...
-- 
Stacey Roberts
B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science

Web: www.vickiandstacey.com