Re: kvm.qumranet.com uncontactable?

Luca
2007-08-12T12:56:47Z

On 8/12/07, Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > The site at kvm.qumranet.com seems to be inaccessible. My DNS comes directly
> > from the root servers, so it is not a DNS issue on my end. I seem to be able
> > to traceroute the domain, but a web browser will time out.
> >
> > Supposedly, it's there, as my colleague in the US can access the site, but it
> > does not work in the UK (on JANET). Netcraft.com cannot connect to it either.
> >
> > Could somebody please look into this? Thanks.
>
> I'm just back from travel in the US, and can confirm this. From some
> locations, it works well; from others it doesn't work at all; and when
> the quantum state is just right you get half your packets dropped.
>
> I suspect that we just have a bad ISP that doesn't peer well. We'll
> work to fix this.

Seems more like a firewall or something like that. IP routing is ok, I
can reach the server (from Italy) just fine, but nothing responds
(nothing at *all*, not event a RST - the same behaviour of iptables
DROP target BTW).

Luca