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I haven't been able to connect to distrowatch.com in well over 3 months now. Yet the site is not down, as i can use a proxy to access it, and any "is it down" website states the server is always up and online.
For some reason i cannot connect to it to view the website, i cannot even ping
Does anyone know what the problem could be? My first impression is that the website has firewalled me somehow, but i cannot understand why that might be the case.
I am on VirginMedia ISP in the UK, do any other VirginMedia users have trouble accessing this website?
That e.g. is Cerberus Networks Ltd (AS51918), last from list at: http://www.traceroute.org/#United%20Kingdom
(Strangely, NONE of the dozen sites listed before this last one, worked/as-easy=no-js)
I am on VirginMedia ISP in the UK, do any other VirginMedia users have trouble accessing this website?
Check your connection configuration. The problem lies on your system not properly configured to reach the service provider's "DNS Server". So call your provider and ask the correct IP numbers of dns servers. Then configure connection with proper IP addresses. In my system it is simple as editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inte1.conf or launch the WICD and enter the IP numbers into the config tabs. To check these dns and nameserver IP's I only
That traceroute output would appear to show that the ping is getting beyond VirginMedia with no problem but is being rejected on the last hop.
A similar traceroute on my machine has the same last two hops as yours but also has a final hop:
Code:
13 easyspeedy-ic-305269-kbn-b3.c.telia.net (62.115.40.174) 44.704 ms 45.709 ms 46.150 ms
14 82.103.189.5 (82.103.189.5) 53.933 ms 51.280 ms 50.668 ms
15 e82-103-136-226s.easyspeedy.com (82.103.136.226) 50.886 ms 47.890 ms 48.144 ms
So, it looks like some filtering is going on at the DistroWatch side of things. Perhaps there has been a blacklisting due to some gaming of the distrowatch distros from the pool of IP's that your IP is in (unless you have a static IP, in which case it might be your specific IP that has been targeted).
Have you tried checking your IP for spam blacklisting (not necessarily related to distrowatch but would be of interest to see if there is a larger problem):
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I take it you have done the usual unplugging the router from the mains and leaving it off for at least 30 seconds then plugging it back in and powering on?
Have you tried checking your IP for spam blacklisting (not necessarily related to distrowatch but would be of interest to see if there is a larger problem):
Do you have a static IP address from VirginMedia, or is it dynamically allocated?
Static i guess. It used to be dynamic possibly over 8 months ago, where each power cycle of the router (even 5 minutes down) would allocate a new IP address, but it seems to have changed to fixed. I imagine Distrowatch is using one of these blocklists?
Using googles cached pages doesn't help either, as most of the page content is not downloading (*connecting to distrowatch.com* etc)
I recommend e-mailing DistroWatch with your IP address and maybe which browser you are using. Then they can check to see if you're being filtered for some reason. In case you can't find their e-mail (cause you cant' see the site) it's distro@distrowatch.com
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