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Jan 8 2001, 10:52 am
Ok, there is total weirdness going on trying to access byond.com from my DSL. First, I notice that WebVision must be providing bandwidth to DreamHost's colocation services (or at least the one your box is on). They also happen to provide the bandwidth to my DSL provider (MM Internet). I wonder if the problem lies therein? Maybe I'll post a message over at their board and see if they have any insight on the problem...

Here's my traceroute:


 
traceroute to www.byond.com (216.240.131.151), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  adsl-gte-la-216-86-198-gateway.mminternet.com (216.86.198.1)  31.506 ms  31.686 ms  32.085 ms
 2  adsl-gte-la-216-86-207-gateway.mminternet.com (216.86.207.1)  28.307 ms  57.054 ms  27.402 ms
 3  airborne.webvision.com (216.240.138.1)  24.174 ms 62.833 ms  24.230 ms
 4  10.255.255.128 (10.255.255.128)  74.982 ms 26.628 ms 57.660 ms
 5  10.255.255.128 (10.255.255.128)  48.029 ms !X * 23.640 ms !X



Here's something odd: the 10.0.0.0 subnet is reserved for private class A networks, not to be used anywhere on the internet itself. So some machine out there (presumably on webvision's network) is sending back bogus "communication administratively prohibited" messages (that's what the !X means). Maybe if you get the DreamHost guys working on it and I'll try to get my ISP guys on it, we'll find a solution.

Just for reference, a traceroute from any other host generally ends with these lines:

8  wvision-la-oc3-gsr1.webvision.com (63.149.192.126)  51.350 ms *  38.747 ms
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  basic-argon.polaris.dreamhost.com (216.240.131.151) 56.331 ms  52.239 ms  54.637 ms
Jan 8 2001, 11:15 am
On 1/8/01 1:52 pm Air Mapster wrote:
Ok, there is total weirdness going on trying to access
byond.com from my DSL. First, I notice that WebVision
must be providing bandwidth to DreamHost's colocation
services (or at least the one your box is on). They also
happen to provide the bandwidth to my DSL provider (<a
target=_blank href=http://www.mminternet.com/>MM
Internet). I wonder if the problem lies therein?
Maybe I'll post a message over at their board and see if
they have any insight on the problem...

Here's my traceroute:

Looks like you have it all under control. I double checked the traceroutes and your correct on everything you posted. Basically, it looks like a bottleneck inside the DSL net itself but a traceroute isn't sufficient to isoloate the problem.

Good luck!
Jan 8 2001, 12:12 pm
Thanks!

I forwarded your comments to the "support" forum, so hopefully they'll be able to figure something out. A while back, WebVision was misrouting all packets from cable modem providers, so perhaps this is something similar. If we continue to experience problems within this next month, DreamHost has offerred to move us to one of their more stable backbones (such as the one that used to host the freebie dantom.com).
Jan 17 2001, 4:58 am
In response to Tom H.
Well for what it's worth, I can now reach byond.com from my DSL as of this morning. Don't know if it was my ISP guys, Dreamhost guys, or Webvision themselves "accidentally" fixing the problem.



Now if only I had some free time to learn BYOND and write something cool with it....