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[sycocys]

Seemed like all the traceroutes I did took a right turn from Wisconsin and tried to/ then subsequently lost connection in France.

No idea why it wanted to circle the globe to get me connected to Canada all morning and last night, unless there's super cheap web hosting over there or something.

Pretty weird though, was a good 16 or so hours that this was the only site I frequent that I couldn't connect to.

[RestosIII]

sycocys, on 23 May 2017 - 11:23 AM, said:

Pretty weird though, was a good 16 or so hours that this was the only site I frequent that I couldn't connect to.

Yesterday and most of today the website refused to load for me the majority of the time, and when it did load, it took 10+ minutes. Something weird was going on.

[ScrapIron Prime]

There was a major outage in the UK yesterday which caused a lot of traffic to re-route, which caused congestion in other areas, etc. About 6 hours of worldwide foo and odd routing decisions.

[dario03]

ScrapIron Prime, on 23 May 2017 - 11:45 AM, said:

There was a major outage in the UK yesterday which caused a lot of traffic to re-route, which caused congestion in other areas, etc. About 6 hours of worldwide foo and odd routing decisions.

I had issues for something like 20 hours though.
I also had about an extra 60ms on my NA and EU ping a few hours ago.
But now both seem fine.

[Burke IV]

This forum has been out of action for half the day for me

[sycocys]

But why on earth would my route try to go from north central USA (less than 100m from Canad(i)a --- around the entire globe, instead of going right to Vancouver where I'd presume they have their web server?

[ScrapIron Prime]

sycocys, on 23 May 2017 - 02:04 PM, said:

But why on earth would my route try to go from north central USA (less than 100m from Canad(i)a --- around the entire globe, instead of going right to Vancouver where I'd presume they have their web server?

Because DNS. If a link is down or overcrowded, your packets will seek an alternate route. Which route depends on what the routers have been set to do.

Do a traceroute command from time to time, you'll see your traffic doesnt always take the same path.

[Mister Blastman]

[Nightmare1]

sycocys, on 23 May 2017 - 11:23 AM, said:

Seemed like all the traceroutes I did took a right turn from Wisconsin and tried to/ then subsequently lost connection in France.

No idea why it wanted to circle the globe to get me connected to Canada all morning and last night, unless there's super cheap web hosting over there or something.

Pretty weird though, was a good 16 or so hours that this was the only site I frequent that I couldn't connect to.

How fast was the traceroute running? Did it have a white flag?

If you answer, "very fast," and "yes," then the server may very well be in France.

The other way to check, is to determine whether or not your server had a French accent and a 5-Star Restaurant attitude.

...Sorry, I couldn't help the French joke!