Ok, as a followup to my favorite Netflix is down post, I am unable to reach zdnet.com/news or zdnet.com/blog
Anyone one else experiencing this issue? or did I mess something up again on my network security settings? Everything else seems to work for me, including downloads.zdnet.com
downornot.com shows zdnet is working good, but I cannot reach anything on that site. My ISP is Comcast. I am not sure when the issue started, but I first discovered it at about 10:15am EST today
*** Update *** 11:35am EST
I have tried from another computer at my current location and received the same errors, I have also tried accessing it from my cell phone using my cell carrier for the ISP (Sprint) instead of Comcast, and it is working fine, but when I put my phone on wifi and connect to my network, it is blocked from there also.
*** Update *** 12:39pm EST
still unable to connect from home, all other websites work fine. I’ve run some tests and even changed my DNS entries to remove comcast.
C:\Windows\system32>tracert zdnet.com
Tracing route to zdnet.com [216.239.116.157]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms *************************
2 43 ms 29 ms 29 ms *************************
3 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms *************************
4 11 ms 12 ms 8 ms *************************
5 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms te-1-3-ar02.savannah.ga.savannah.comcast.net [68.86.250.97]
6 17 ms 16 ms 15 ms te-8-8-ar01.westside.fl.jacksvil.comcast.net [68.86.168.209]
7 27 ms 27 ms 28 ms te-1-0-0-1-cr01.charlotte.nc.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.93.169]
8 33 ms 32 ms 30 ms pos-3-15-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.225]
9 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms pos-0-1-0-0-pe01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.86]
10 31 ms 31 ms 41 ms 66.208.229.218
11 50 ms 52 ms 49 ms tge16-1.fr3.dal.llnw.net [68.142.125.17]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
C:\Windows\system32>nslookup zdnet.com
Server: cdns01.comcast.net
Address: 75.75.75.75
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: zdnet.com
Address: 216.239.116.157
C:\Windows\system32>nslookup zdnet.com
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
C:\Windows\system32>ping 216.239.116.157
Pinging 216.239.116.157 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 216.239.116.157:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: zdnet.com
Address: 216.239.116.157
C:\Windows\system32>
I then tried a traceroute from my Cell phone…
# /system/xbin/busybox traceroute 216.239.116.157 traceroute to 216.239.116.157 (216.239.116.157), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 **************************** 394.470 ms 86.303 ms 125.550 ms 2 **************************** 91.034 ms 89.569 ms 106.568 ms 3 **************************** 139.923 ms 136.292 ms 270.050 ms 4 68.28.245.69 (68.28.245.69) 169.830 ms 244.751 ms 230.164 ms 5 144.223.135.121 (144.223.135.121) 304.443 ms 216.858 ms 227.814 ms 6 144.232.25.115 (144.232.25.115) 214.782 ms 144.232.4.45 (144.232.4.45) 211.884 ms 144.232.25.115 (144.232.25.115) 224.548 ms 7 144.232.25.55 (144.232.25.55) 158.600 ms 144.232.25.117 (144.232.25.117) 117.797 ms 144.232.2.189 (144.232.2.189) 205.444 ms 8 144.232.18.234 (144.232.18.234) 194.030 ms 184.754 ms 221.557 ms 9 4.69.138.126 (4.69.138.126) 266.510 ms 204.926 ms 286.407 ms 10 4.69.140.142 (4.69.140.142) 229.339 ms 225.311 ms 178.193 ms 11 4.69.148.253 (4.69.148.253) 190.643 ms 234.008 ms 194.855 ms 12 4.69.134.21 (4.69.134.21) 174.835 ms 289.795 ms 449.829 ms 13 4.69.132.77 (4.69.132.77) 251.526 ms 213.044 ms 288.421 ms 14 4.69.148.202 (4.69.148.202) 303.009 ms 354.676 ms 331.573 ms 15 4.69.148.142 (4.69.148.142) 413.544 ms 269.379 ms 263.153 ms 16 4.69.153.33 (4.69.153.33) 255.035 ms 361.939 ms 406.097 ms 17 4.69.140.153 (4.69.140.153) 335.083 ms 341.430 ms 222.839 ms 18 4.69.140.145 (4.69.140.145) 156.372 ms 348.267 ms 345.398 ms 19 4.69.133.149 (4.69.133.149) 319.336 ms 323.516 ms 297.790 ms 20 4.53.132.2 (4.53.132.2) 339.081 ms 313.660 ms 217.193 ms 21 216.239.127.38 (216.239.127.38) 181.030 ms 288.055 ms 341.584 ms 22 216.239.116.157 (216.239.116.157) 336.456 ms 334.961 ms 328.094 ms # Sent from my HTC Evo unrEVOked forever. Running MikG 2.4.1 rooted Gingerbread Rom with HTC Sense 2.1+ 3.0
*** Update *** 1:00pm EST
since I am sure someone will ask, yes I have cleared all browsing data, cache, and cookies
*** Update *** 5:20pm EST
all seems to be working now
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- cached copies from google are working
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- IE8 trying to reach zdnet
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- IE8 trying to reach zdnet
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- IE8 trying to reach zdnet
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- IE8 trying to reach zdnet
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- I clicked a link from the email newsletter and got this
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- zdnet.com failure
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- tried to go to the news part
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- downornot.com shows it is up
Getting ready to setup my PC as a VMWare Server, got a new WD Caviar Black 500GB 32MB cache Internal drive so I can dump all my files on it to clean off a pair of 250GB drives to run the VM’s on. I learned a long time ago you want different HDD‘s for each VM if they are to be active, as the slowest part of a computer these days are the HDD’s and the last thing you want is more than one OS trying to run off the same HDD. Would be nice if I could talk myself into the cost of a few SSDs. Below are some links I am finding while I research that sound useful or interesting, not all are exactly pertaining to what I am trying to do, some may be helpful with things I am going to do after I get it setup, so I’ll be adding things to this post as I find them, to build up some information links for setting up my VMWare server.
- a forum post where someone describes exactly what they install as their host linux machine to run the VMWare server on, unfortunately this is for CentOS, which is okay, just not my preferred Linux distro. and unfortunately according to VMWare’s website, Ubuntu, CentOS, and RHEL are the only supported Linux Distro’s… I wonder while they do not support FreeBSD as well? oh well, we shall see how it goes.
- a great article on setting up Ubuntu JeOS, although JeOS is designed for being set up as a virtual machine, I want to see if it can be used as the host OS for VMWare Server also, and will be the first Host OS I will try when my new drive arrives. (that should be interesting, I’ll try and keep good notes)
- Using Kernel Mode Virtual Machine on any Linux Distro with kernel 2.6.20 or newer. Also not what I was looking for, but a great alternative, this is a guide book giving step by step instructions for setting it up and installing your guest OS, including command line inputs for setup.
- setting up an IPCop Virtual Machine to manage your internet traffic, of course now I need to go and figure out exactly what it does (I can guess, but like to know more details). Still not exactly what I started looking for, but these are the things I have been finding while looking and are still useful. Setting up IPCop like this is definitely something I would be interested in doing to simplify my network protection; although I have a Sheeva Plug computer that I purchased specifically to do this, and just never got around to setting it up. (Still have to get it flashed to a new version on it’s NAND rom so the SD cards can work, so I can put a decent sized storage card on their to do all I want to do with it.)
(must be a problem with IE8 that is preventing me from inserting the web links, I’ll update this post later from Google Chrome and if it doesn’t work, then I’ll try it from Fedora and see if it works then. Until then, I am sorry but I will not be posting referrence links to everything I type.)
(well everything works fine from Google Chrome under Windows 7, as you can see from the improvements to this post. Unless of course you are seeing it for the first time now… :)
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