On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Lyle Bickley
<lbickley at bickleywest.com> wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:32:11 -0500
Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
Hello, all,
I am a member of the Homebuilt CPU web-ring, and a really
weird problem has turned up. The guy who administers the
ring, David Brooks, is in Australia, and uses iinet.net.au
as his ISP. All members of the web ring link to his
personal web pages at iinet. Apparently, due to government
censorship or a private war between iinet and US content
providers, iinet or Australia are blocking access from at
least some sites in the US. ...
Some webring members are now using classiccmp mirrors to
host the affected files to get around this problem.
So, I wonder if I can ask classiccmp members, especially in
the US, to check if they can view this page:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/simplex.html
Works from Silicon Valley (Mountain View)
Lyle
I tried "traceroute" from three places: a machine in Palo Alto (result: fail),
my home firewall (result: works) and my office (result: fail).
The routes shown are utterly different. The PA case shows just a few hops, into
megapath.net, then no further. The office goes into
alter.net, then through a whole bunch
of different hosts all in
cogentco.com, then nothing. And from home, I see a path through
comcast.net,
gtt.net,
ii.net, then iinet.com.au and from there to the destination.
The "censorship or ..." notion may be someone's overheated imagination -- it
looks more like there's a backbone routing issue.
paul