On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:32 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> As I've mentioned before, it is not possible to access the PLUG website
> from much of the COX network due to a faulty route somewhere. I'm
> trying to track down the point where the route goes bad in hopes of
> getting the COX network staff off their collective hindquarters to
> actually do something for a change.
Hi Joseph,
I am also using a Cox cable modem, but I have no problems reaching the
plug website.
I can't speak for the PLUG staff, but it appears to me that
www.plug.phoenix.az.us resolves to 66.98.190.6 (as you indicated) which
is IP space owned by a hosting company called "Everyone's Internet" out
of Houston Texas (
http://www.ev1.net). They appear to be hosting the
website on Apache/Linux (good!) and using vhosts, which means it's
probably not a dedicated server. Since they are using vhosts you can't
surf directly to the resolved IP address. Apache is using the hostname
requested in the URL to determine which site to serve up on the shared
server. In fact, if you surf directly to
http://66.98.190.6 you will be
redirected to an SSL-encrypted site admin page (bad idea - IMHO!).
As for traceroute falling down, well it's pretty common for hosting
providers to drop icmp and udp traceroute packets. It's often a matter
of survival for them. We can thank all the wormdows infestations for
that. NOTE: your traceroute (and mine) fails at the last hop in
Houston. Probably at ev1's front door. ;-)
This is all guess work on my part, but here is a terminal log to base it
on...
$ dig +short
www.plug.phoenix.az.us
plug.phoenix.az.us.
66.98.190.6
$ whois -H 66.98.190.6
OrgName: Everyones Internet, Inc.
OrgID: EVRY
Address: 2600 Southwest Freeway
Address: Suite 500
City: Houston
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 77098
Country: US
<snip>
$ links
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.plug.phoenix.az.us
<snip>
"...running Apache on Linux when last queried at 15-Feb-2005 02:09:05
GMT"
<snip>
$ links
http://www.plug.phoenix.az.us
<snip>
"Phoenix Linux Users Group :: Penguins in the Desert"
<snip>
$ links
http://66.98.190.6
<snip>
"Welcome Site/User Administrator"
<snip>
$ links
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/
<snip>
"Apache Virtual Host documentation... ;-)"
<snip>
$ tracepath 66.98.190.6
1: {my-internal-firewall} (000.000.000.000) 2.639ms
2: 10.50.0.1 (10.50.0.1) 32.573ms
3: ip68-2-2-33.ph.ph.cox.net (68.2.2.33) 14.460ms
4: 68.2.13.238 (68.2.13.238) asymm 5
15.564ms
5: 68.2.13.134 (68.2.13.134) asymm 6
27.206ms
6: 68.2.13.34 (68.2.13.34) asymm 7
14.896ms
7: chnddsrc01-gew0304.rd.ph.cox.net (68.2.14.9) 15.194ms
8: chndbbrc01-pos0101.rd.ph.cox.net (68.1.0.164) 16.044ms
9: langbbrc01pos0401.r2.la.cox.net (68.1.1.228) asymm 10
29.053ms
10: 68.105.30.130 (68.105.30.130) 29.156ms
11: anhmca1wcx2-pos6-1-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.140.161) 28.947ms
12: hstntx1wcx2-pos1-0.wcg.net (64.200.240.65) asymm 14
53.532ms
13: hstntx1wcx1-pos6-0-oc48.wcg.net (65.77.93.209) asymm 14
48.519ms
14: hstntx1wce2-everyonesinternet-gige.wcg.net (65.77.93.54) asymm 16
49.910ms
15: ivhou-207-218-245-110.ev1.net (207.218.245.110) asymm 16
51.302ms
16: no reply
17: no reply
18: no reply
Our traceroutes seem to meet at chndbbrc01-pos0101.rd.ph.cox.net
(68.1.0.164) and stay together for the rest of the trip. Doesn't seem
to be a problem with the Cox routing.
...Kevin
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