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halo71 · #1 02-20-2007

Anyone know whats up with gmail this week? Some say they still can access it, some say they can't. Access seems like it may be a regional related thing?!? Also I just noticed that stickypond.com is down as well.

raybay · #2 02-20-2007

We have a number of gmail accounts among our association members... none are having any troubles...
What does a bandwidth speed test report?

SNGX1275 · #3 02-20-2007

Working fine here. Same with Stickypond.

halo71 · #4 02-20-2007

I did a google search earlier and found where other people couldnt access gmail either. Would it be possible that only certain regions where people live are having this problem?

jobeard · #5 02-20-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by halo71

I did a google search earlier and found where other people couldn't access gmail either. Would it be possible that only certain regions where people live are having this problem?

absolutely.
major sites like yahoo / google have multiple hosts and the DNS is frequently arrange by
geography for redundancy and fault tolerance.

halo71 · #6 02-20-2007

hummm...now gmail is back working for me, just checked. But stickypond still doesnt work for some reason. I get the below message with IE, Firefox and Opera!

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

jobeard · #7 02-20-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by halo71

But stickypond still doesnt work for some reason. I get the below message with IE, Firefox and Opera!

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"

if you mean stickypond.com, then you could have tested this for yourself
using

Code:

ping stickypond.com

Pinging stickypond.com [75.126.20.122] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 75.126.20.122:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

showing indeed, stickypond is offline

halo71 · #8 02-20-2007

Jo, thanks I did try that as well prior to post.

SNGX1275 · #9 02-20-2007

Well, I tried to ping www.stickypond.com and it didn't work. Which is odd because I've never been to the site before, yet it loads just fine in Opera. I highly doubt UMR or MOREnet has that site cached, but maybe they do.

Edit:
Just talked to Anumati (member, but with 0 posts) from New Zealand. Anumati can get to the site too, also times out on ping.

Code:

ping stickypond.com

Pinging stickypond.com [75.126.20.122] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 75.126.20.122:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Code:

tracert www.stickypond.com

Tracing route to www.stickypond.com [75.126.20.122]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     2 ms     2 ms  ncpk-01-rtr.network.umr.edu [131.151.44.253]
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  ncpk-90-rtr.network.umr.edu [131.151.253.254]
  3     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  umr-ge3-0.gw.more.net [207.160.128.164]
  4    14 ms    12 ms    13 ms  co-r10-01-atm2-0-2-200.mo.more.net [150.199.4.22
5]
  5    15 ms    13 ms    13 ms  co-r12-01-pos7-0.mo.more.net [150.199.7.25]
  6    16 ms    15 ms    18 ms  kc-r12-01-ge2-0-0.mo.more.net [150.199.7.22]
  7    16 ms    19 ms    17 ms  kcm-edge-15.inet.qwest.net [67.128.225.97]
  8    17 ms    17 ms    16 ms  kcm-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.29.177]
  9    31 ms    27 ms    28 ms  dal-core-02.inet.qwest.net [67.14.2.10]
 10    28 ms    28 ms    29 ms  dap-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.225.5]
 11    27 ms    27 ms    29 ms  aer1-ge-6-4.dallasequinix.savvis.net [208.175.17
5.33]
 12    29 ms    28 ms    28 ms  208.175.175.42
 13    29 ms    27 ms    37 ms  fcr01.dal01.softlayer.com [66.228.119.238]
 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.

jobeard · #10 02-20-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by SNGX1275

Well, I tried to ping www.stickypond.com and it didn't work.

Edit:
Just talked to Anumati (member, but with 0 posts) from New Zealand. Anumati can get to the site too, also times out on ping.

Nice! this shows that PINGing a host is not the same as accessing port 80
on that host.

Gota love the implementations

halo71 · #11 02-20-2007

Don't know, guess I will have to wait and see what happens. As Jo said, maybe its just where I am located.
Tracert and ping are still failing.

MetalX · #12 02-21-2007

I've got a similar problem in that I can't go to newegg.com in Firefox. I have to use crappy old IE for that.

raybay · #13 02-21-2007

Setup or security issue. There is nothing inherent to Firefox to cause the problem... Could be ISP related... Antivirus software related. Be sure you are using Firefox 2.0.1 or higher.

halo71 · #14 02-21-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by raybay

Setup or security issue. There is nothing inherent to Firefox to cause the problem... Could be ISP related... Antivirus software related. Be sure you are using Firefox 2.0.1 or higher.

It has nothing to do with a set-up issue or software. I googled the gmail problem yesterday and there were many reports of people having the same issue as I did. Although I can get into gmail now. Stickypond is still down. As I already said, I had this same problem no matter if I use IE, Firefox or Opera.

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