[sarahk]

Hi

I've got a real estate directory and one of the listings is valid, should be ok but I just can't get to the site.

It's at Alex Shay

Now, my thoughts are that there might be an APNIC ban on it so I'd appreciate it if people down in New Zealand (where I am, shame it's raining, we have bmx racing tomorrow) could let me know if they can get to it. I've had this with other sites and it's to do with spam prevention. Makes my life difficult though.

thanks

Sarah

[kall]

Heya Sarah,

Yup, working fine for me.

ISP: xnet.

[M.E.2]

Works great from the UK

[blobby]

opens fine for me..

[sarahk]

Thanks guys.

I use Maxnet as my ISP and they're working with me to sort this out.

I have 3 sites I'm having problems with

1. Alex Shay - that I can't get to at all
2. Sites I own that run like dogs but everyone else tells me they're normal, certainly the spam bots have a blast given the stats from Akismet and Bad Behaviour
3. DigitalPoint's forum - some days it's like lightening, some days it's a slug. I'm a mod so it means some days I just have to leave it to the others and ignore the "reports" sent by members

So, I've downloaded winMTR that does repeated traceroutes to get averages for a site and the results have been really interesting. Take a look at these 1, 2, 3

I can see that when I go to dp I hit a wall at at-0-0-1-300.jb1.wils.telstraclear.net

How on earth do I convince them, though, that their blasted node is a dog, needs rebooting or whatever?

[kall]

Bugger that it is Telstra.. if it was xtra I might be able to cobble together some people to look at it.

Of course... you could always go for a quick walk over to their side of the complex and bang some heads together.. give me a yell and I'll come with.

[sarahk]

I faxed some info through to them and quite frankly I didn't expect much. So when a lovely chap called Chris rang me I was pleasantly surprised.

He got talking about a known issue with a RAN called GLFRAN13 (research to be done there) causing problems with overseas sites. Seems that Paradise and Xtra run into problems here and Maxnet may do also.

I asked him if he was at Smales and told him that if my problems continue I'll be stalking him in the cafeteria. He didn't sound thrilled.