> 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
