On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 22:22 +0000, Glenn Enright wrote:
After speaking with ihug technicians, it would seem that it's something to do with the lack of a peering agreement with Telecom. Traceroutes to Telecom end in a similar way, although I have no problems reading THEIR website (natch). Ihug were very helpful, and I've had another suggestion to try using a proxy site such as http://anonymizer.com which works.
That sounds bogus to me, at the very least (if the problem is really caused due to a lack of peering) iHug should simply be sending the traffic to their upstream provider (TelstraClear). You'll have a longer path but you should get there eventually. There isn't really any reason for them to make sites unavailable simply because they don't have a peering agreement. All of iHug bliink traffic appears to go iHug -> TCL -> GG -> wlug with the same path followed in reverse. I can't see why they would refuse to route your traffic that way as well. Not very acceptable service from them in my opinion, and if I were you I wouldn't let it end there! -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz