DNS issues?

chuckanado · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:39 pm

Ok, 24v and amor are tied for cleverness.... good thinkin', guys! :cheers:

Ld00d · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:36 pm

the hosting is asking for more traces. if you're on winders,

tracert www.dirttreaders.com

email me the output with your ip: brianlampe@hotmail.com

to get the ip: http://www.hostgator.com/ip.shtml

24v · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:32 pm

Ld00d wrote:

the hosting is asking for more traces. if you're on winders,

tracert http://www.dirttreaders.com

email me the output with your ip: brianlampe@hotmail.com

to get the ip: http://www.hostgator.com/ip.shtml

E-mail sent. :thumbsup:

Ld00d · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:48 pm

thanks guys for sending your traces. i'm afraid we're running into another dead end here. i'll keep you posted.

bentmywookie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:52 pm

sladnas wrote:

When you tell your web browser to load DT, it sends a request to DT's server that says "omg hai, plz send me yur webz." The request doesn't travel directly from your computer to the DT server, it bounces off (it is "routed") lots of intermediary computers and/or equipment to get there. The internet is made up of millions of small networks (city streets), but there are major "backbones" (freeways) that just about all traffic eventually will touch.

To get from your house to DT, your computer sends the request to your ISP, who routes it through their city streets to one of the major freeways (ISPs usually access multiple freeways). The request eventually gets off at an offramp and continues on city streets to the destination. What might be happening here, is that some people are connected to a group of city streets and freeways that has a clear path to DT. Others of us (myself included) are hitting some sort of traffic jam somewhere in-between and the data is never arriving. This is actually quite rare because most major freeways know alternate routes, so being re-routed isn't uncommon when a bridge collapses into the river. There have been a few cases where someone (I'll call said person an idiot for better or worse), accidentally screws up the design of their freeway or city street and makes it a roundabout where data that enters can never escape. The black hole of networking. That might not be occurring here, but it is a possibility. Those problems are usually detected very quickly because it usually affects a large number of things. This has been going on for a few days now...

Wow you could turn this story into a childrens book! Most interesting thing to come my way since the boy in the balloon. :thumbsup:

Ld00d · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:01 am

i'm working with the hosting, and they put a ticket in to the responsible party (sprintlink), but they say there isn't a lot of hope of a response. i see on sprintlink's site they have maintenance planned for a router or routers in anaheim, but i'm not sure that's gonna help either.

the only solution right now is, if you have connection difficulties, complain to your isp. ultimately they are the ones who use this backbone (sprintlink) and they have more impact than our hosting does.

if there was anything i could do directly, believe me, it would have been done 3 days ago.

24v · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:26 am

Does each isp choose where the traffic gets routed? If not who makes that choice?

luna · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:16 am

still can't log on bb/verizon

Ld00d · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:48 am

24v wrote:

Does each isp choose where the traffic gets routed? If not who makes that choice?

i believe they make deals with nearby endpoints like sprintlink.

check this out: https://www.sprint.net/network_maps.php

luna · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:54 pm

I miss the governor of DT(bajafresh) pics of sweetwater.

I say, can this forum host, get a new one.

They did something as I had been able to log on from bb/verizon, but not anymore :cry:

wirk242 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:36 pm

Brian, did you want to try to set up a mirror?

evdog · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:35 pm

Since it sounds like the problem stems from AT&T, I'm convinced this is Jose's revenge for people criticising his repeated Sweetwater/Otay ride reports. :lol:

6packguywith5spot wrote:

I can access site from home but not from work. It has been for a few days now and I need it fixed now or I won't pay my dues. :lol:

C'mon Jose, the Bandwidth Bandit needs his fix!

b5driver · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:31 am

Looks like it's working again (AT&T dsl user here). I guess it was good that I couldn't get my fix this weekend with all the work around the house to be done.

Ratigan · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:59 am

YAAAYYY!!! BACK ON! Here's what the Second Tier Support tech at ATT told me yesterday: "DT was Black Holed (Hold?) due to security reasons. Looks like they are Black Holed by everybody except Comcast." He then explained that they trace the sys for any hacking, etc. and then release it as soon as the results are negated. It took some pushing for me to get the issue elevated to second tier and then he called his third tier manager...........

We've prolly grown so big that they're taken back by so much activity. :thumbsup:

badkittyjing · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:01 am

I still can't access it from my phone which is a bummer (Pre/Sprint).

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