[tex-live] www.tug.org unreachable

[Zdenek Wagner]

2017-12-18 23:27 GMT+01:00 Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>:

> Given that is the case, has you tried using OpenDNS?
>

DNS is not the problem. The problem is that a router finds a way to the IP
address through inaccessible routers.

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Zdeněk Wagner
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>
> On 19/12/2017, at 11:22, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
>
> On 2017-12-18 at 22:10:45 +0100, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
>
> Le 18/12/17 à 21h44, Rick Graham a écrit :
>
> ... I'm also curious to know if the TOR Browser
> <https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en> works for you,
> since it will most assuredly take a different path, etc., to
> www.tug.org.
>
>
> Bingo! That works :)
>
>
> Denis, the actual problem is not solved so far, sorry.
>
> When you start the Tor browswer, it says, for instance
>
>  Your IP address appears to be: 62.212.73.141
>
> But this IP address is not yours and you get another one when you
> start the browser again.
>
> What happens is that your browser connects to this remote machine and
> the remote machine sends your requests to www.tug.org and sends you
> the results.  This works, of course, because
>
>  http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
>
> already told you that everbody except you can access www.tug.org .
>
> Using the Tor browser is probably a nice workaround for http(s) and
> ftp but it doesn't help if you need rsync, for example.
>
> I guess we can conclude neither my router nor my configuration are
> the culprits...
>
>
> I can't imagine that there is something wrong at your site because you
> said that everything else works fine.
>
> BTW, tug.org and preining.info have completely different IP-numbers:
>
>  tug.org:         91.121.174.77
>  preining.info:   142.4.209.99
>
> Maybe one of the routers between Calais and Roubaix is
> screwed up.  Can anybody tell me what * * * means in the output of
> traceroute?
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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