Problme accessing the forum

Synoptic · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

Weird problem. Maybe Firewall Rulez on gentoo forums...

I can access the forum from work, but from home I can only ping the IP, and I cannot connect to port 80...

so I dont have access from *videotron.ca hosts...

cna anyone confirm this ?

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 2:48 am Post subject: Re: Problme accessing the forum

rac · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:01 am Post subject:

There have been some other reports of problems accessing the forums from Eastern Canada. Perhaps there is a misconfigured router somewhere.
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tecknojunky · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:02 am Post subject:

Sorry, I have posted another thread for this exact same problem i'm having for nearly 2 weeks now. Can't access from home and neither form the university. Now I have found a way using a public proxy anonymizer, but it's a pain since I must bypass the cache and filter proxies.

There is a traceroute in that thread. I notice there is a non-routable IP showing up. Can it be the problem.

Hope it can be fixed somehow. 2 weeks is loooong.

ADDENDUM:

To be torought, I also included a traceroute from the university. So this makes up for 3 differents hosts (Videotron.ca, vif.com and uqam.ca) that can't reach the forum.

jlg · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

man.. I have been having the same problem and I'm in mtl too..
I thought that maybe the address I got was band since I could access the site from work and every other of my friends here in mtl could access the site. I tried many things to get it to work this morning and it wouldn't work.. drove me crazy.. I thought it was maybe that I upgraded a package "mozilla" and something that forums.gentoo.org needs was fucked in mozilla.. so I booted with a knoppix.. still no go.. I did a "reset to factory default" on my cable modem.. waited for the network to come back.. got a new IP.. still no go.. I have been trying randomly all day. Now I just got it? no clue why it works and how long it will work..

tecknojunky · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:02 am Post subject:

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

ahhh finally i can reach the forums:)
couldnt for nearly a week and a half...and even though im not sure if i should blame them... *BLAMES VIDEOTRON*
(mmm blaming videotron)

tecknojunky · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:51 pm Post subject:

tecknojunky · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 7:39 am Post subject:

This is starting to get really anoying.

This morning:

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

nevermind my exclamation of joy, only college is able to connect to the forums now, my home box(videotron...) still cant....urgh

apilosov · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 1

Hi there,

I'm the owner of Pilosoft, colo provider for forums.gentoo.org

10.* (private IPs in network infrastructure) are not the cause of any routing problems.

Issue with transit between Pilosoft and Videotron turned out to be Peer1 (our common transit) causing some breakage, now corrected.

rac · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject:

apilosov, thanks so much for hosting the forums server. These forums would be in much worse shape without your generosity. Also glad that the routing issue is fixed.
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tecknojunky · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 8:44 pm Post subject:

thank you

Just pointing out that i'm not a videotron client nor is my University, unless they all share a common node on the backbone(?)
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