[GLLUG] Web site access error & related diagnostics

[David Singer]

The site does NOT work for me :(

You have a few DNS errors http://www.intodns.com/nanosteps.net but nothing
major.


You should sign up for http://www.montastic.com/ the issue may be
intermittant downtime and unrelated to any browser config. for the record I
am running Ubuntu 8.04 FF 3.0.8

root at sniffles:~# tracert 69.93.1.56
traceroute to 69.93.1.56 (69.93.1.56), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  AP01 (192.168.43.2)  0.811 ms  1.660 ms  1.898 ms
 2  c-208-53-106-1.chrlmi.cablespeed.com (208.53.106.1)  65.149 ms  81.437
ms  81.447 ms
 3  c-24-56-220-113.chrlmi.cablespeed.com (24.56.220.113)  81.444 ms  81.460
ms  81.940 ms
 4  65.42.25.25 (65.42.25.25)  83.176 ms  83.545 ms *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * ae-6.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.140.190)  21.798 ms  27.807 ms
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * ae-24-79.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.68.19.70)  56.512 ms
15  THE-PLANET.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net (4.71.122.2)  72.155 ms  74.019 ms
80.414 ms
16  te7-2.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.10)  90.982 ms  97.117 ms
97.344 ms
17  76.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com (70.87.253.118)  98.313 ms  98.898 ms
99.389 ms
18  72.fe.5746.static.theplanet.com (70.87.254.114)  102.014 ms  102.308 ms
102.552 ms
19  38.1.5d45.static.theplanet.com (69.93.1.56)  113.991 ms  114.123 ms
114.384 ms
root at sniffles:~#

-David

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Frank Dolinar <frank.dolinar at comcast.net>wrote:

>  To everyone I talked with on Thursday and anyone else who's interested...
>
> My friend John was trying to access a page on my website and was unable to
> do so.
> Based on what he was doing, the fact that I can reach my website and this
> specific page from any machine, OS, & browser that I've tried, I don't know
> what his problem is.
> (I've tried several machines, at home and at work, variously using WinXP
> Pro SP2, Mac OS X 10.4, and Ubuntu Linux 8.04 as operating systems and IE 6
> / 7, FireFox 3.0.8, Opera 9.64 , and Safari 4.528 as browsers.  I have IE
> and FireFox on my XP machine at work; IE, FireFox, Opera, and Safari on my
> XP machine at home, Firefox & Safari on my MacBook, and Firefox on my Ubuntu
> computer at home.  Had no problem with any configuration.)
>
> He provided an output from a diagnostic run.  If anyone identifies some
> sort of smoking gun in the diagnostic data, or if you try the URL and are
> unable to get in and can provide some illumination of this or possible other
> problems, I'd appreciate hearing whatever you have to offer.
>
> I also notice in the diagnostic data he provided that I see a lot of
> references to  www.microsoft.com  in the text, but no reference to
> www.nanosteps.net  (i.e. my website).
> The only thing I can think is that he's running a version of Vista and it's
> blocking his access.
> Is this a whitelisting problem of some sort?  If so, does anyone know how
> to fix it?
>
> As usual, any help will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
> P.S. John's email text to me is shown below:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I tried to log into http://www.nanosteps.net/~DiabologicNew.html <http://www.nanosteps.net/%7EDiabologicNew.html> and got a message that I could not connect to the page. I'm attaching the diagnostics.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> --
> *================================================================*
> *  Frank Dolinar                       frank.dolinar at comcast.net *
> *  nanoSteps, LLC                              www.nanosteps.net *
> *  PO Box 886                                       517.351.1899 *
> *  East Lansing, MI 48826-0886                                   *
> *----------------------------------------------------------------*
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> *          and learn everything you can along the way.           *
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