> On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Lyle Bickley <lbick...@bickleywest.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:32:11 -0500 > Jon Elson <el...@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