So I spotted a link to the al-jazeera english web site that was supposed to launch today and figured that I would at least have a look (while being just as cynical about the tactics of media manipulation as usual)
No dice. so host english.aljazeera.net is 64.106.198.16 the intersting line in the traceroute is the last one 10 p9-0.cr01.sntd.eli.net (207.173.114.57) 68 ms 78 ms 115 ms 11 so-0-0-0--0.er01.plal.eli.net (207.173.114.138) 99 ms 92 ms 117 ms 12 f0.pao1.verio.net (198.32.176.14) 108 ms !N 111 ms !N 100 ms !N could it be that verio quenches ICMP, well traceroute from another location to same ip 4 fa-2-19.a01.ptldor04.us.ra.verio.net (157.238.24.101) 400.164 ms 103.314 ms 103.245 ms 5 ge-1-0-0.a00.ptldor04.us.ra.verio.net (129.250.55.121) 104.422 ms 248.859 ms 210.176 ms 6 p4-1-1-0.r01.ptldor01.us.ra.verio.net (129.250.55.95) 120.85 ms 105.518 ms 131.055 ms 7 ge-1-0-0.r01.ptldor01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.30.145) 103.568 ms !N 312.682 ms !N 440.561 ms !N Intriguing! there may be an innocent explanation or it could be under a DDOS (this IS war after all and even though aljazeera.net is not an Iraq based business they are probably saying things that are not completely supportive of the US) I feel so much safer now. -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
