RCmodelreview website not available

[hillflyer]

Hi Bruce, for a few days now I cannot access the rcmodelreviews.com
website, I always get the Apache server info displayed instead.

Hannes

[graham...@mac.com]

Yes, it's been the same for me for several days.

[Steven Cotter]

Hmmmm I can hit it just fine. May be a DNS issue.

Start Run. Type cmd.exe hit enter
In the black box that opens up.
Type. Ping www.rcmodelreviews.com
It should resolve to 208.53.170.231
If it does not post the IP address that does show up on the forum.

Steve
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

[graham...@mac.com]

Right, so the site works fine at work on the same laptop (different
ISP) and I've emailed Optus (my home ISP) to ask them to to check
their DNS.

FYI, here are my ping results..

Ping has started…

PING rcmodelreviews.com (208.53.170.231): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
Request timeout for icmp_seq 8

--- rcmodelreviews.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss


Cheers, Graham

[mkaz]

Same here, rcmodelreviews.com is not reachable.
DNS resolutions seems OK, remodelreviews.com is resolved to
208.53.170.231, same as for Steven Cotter.

Ping packets are not returned (request timed out). I'm not sure though
if Bruce host/server is setup to return Ping's.
The site does not come up. I checked on several systems, connected to
different ISP's here.

Hope Bruce's site is OK and this outage is not related to the recent
opening of the Forum section.

Michael

[Robert Moody]

Hi there,

I can reach www.rcmodelreviews.com and get a ping reply from them.

robert@phlatprinter:~$ nslookup www.rcmodelreviews.com
Server: 192.168.3.1
Address: 192.168.3.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.rcmodelreviews.com canonical name = rcmodelreviews.com.
Name: rcmodelreviews.com
Address: 208.53.170.231

robert@phlatprinter:~$ ping www.rcmodelreviews.com
PING rcmodelreviews.com (208.53.170.231) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from rcmodelreviews.com (208.53.170.231): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53
time=243 ms
64 bytes from rcmodelreviews.com (208.53.170.231): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53
time=244 ms

Can you run the following command and see if you get a connection.

From a command prompt cmd.exe

telnet 208.53.170.231 80

Regards,

Rob.

[graham...@mac.com]

I still can't get access to this site :-(

My ISP (Optus) says it's not a problem with them and have pointed the
finger at fdcservers.net who they say host the site. I've tried to
contact them but have not had a response.

As mentioned it works fine for me at work on the same computer.

Any suggestions?

See Traceroute details below.

Thanks, Graham


Traceroute has started…

traceroute to rcmodelreviews.com (208.53.170.231), 64 hops max, 52
byte packets
1 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 3.232 ms 4.257 ms 3.737 ms
2 meb801.ba.optusnet.com.au (198.142.129.44) 23.557 ms 20.210 ms
20.314 ms
3 meb4-ge5-1.gw.optusnet.com.au (198.142.144.93) 36.225 ms 23.507
ms 20.623 ms
4 sbr3-ge14-0-0-821.gw.optusnet.com.au (211.29.156.12) 74.862 ms
70.034 ms 71.943 ms
5 203.208.148.225 (203.208.148.225) 212.905 ms 207.579 ms 210.636
ms
6 xe-0-0-0-0.plapx-cr3.ix.singtel.com (203.208.183.177) 216.217 ms
208.593 ms 219.105 ms
7 203.208.169.30 (203.208.169.30) 209.889 ms 218.934 ms
203.208.186.54 (203.208.186.54) 211.479 ms
8 ae0-60g.cr1.pao1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.153.18) 261.343 ms 240.751
ms 240.356 ms
9 vl52.ar1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.143.122) 241.138 ms
vl51.ar1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.143.126) 242.521 ms 241.855
ms
10 te1-1.ar1.slc1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.142.96) 224.214 ms 225.903
ms 226.244 ms
11 xe-2-1-0.cr1.ord1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.142.101) 260.018 ms
259.978 ms 258.915 ms
12 ae0-40g.cr2.ord1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.111.154) 285.432 ms
289.342 ms 286.507 ms
13 as30058.xe-2-0-5.ar1.ord1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.110.90) 258.589
ms 258.335 ms 263.482 ms
14 66.90.127.177 (66.90.127.177) 291.212 ms 285.148 ms 293.192 ms
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