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Problem connecting to msghelp by Lou on 06-09-2008 at 10:34 AM
For the past three days, I've had issues connecting to shoutbox.menthix.net and http://shoutbox.menthix.net. I've had to use my website's proxy in order to do so, because the connection times out. I've gone into cmd and did a ping, and once again the connection timed out. Then several minutes later, bam, it works again.
I don't have any clue as to what's going on, whether it's server side or if it's just me (I can see and access all the other pages I regularly see and access during these times) but if someone has any idea, it'd be greatly appreciated 
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At the beginning of writing this post I had the problem, now I can access the forums fine again.
RE: Problem connecting to msghelp by vaccination on 06-09-2008 at 10:39 AM
I've had a failed to connect to server error twice on the forums, once yesterday and once day before, I think both were mid morning though I can't really be sure. This wasn't a timeout though, instantly failed to connect.
The forums will then work fine again after a few minutes.
RE: Problem connecting to msghelp by mezzanine on 06-09-2008 at 10:45 AM
Do a traceroute to msghelp.net and paste.
RE: Problem connecting to msghelp by Lou on 06-09-2008 at 10:49 AM
quote:
Tracing route to msghelp.net [64.62.180.102]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms 1 ms 1 ms mymodem [192.168.2.1]
2 15 ms 11 ms 11 ms bas2-hull20_lo0_SYMP.net.bell.ca [64.230.197.6]
3 25 ms 9 ms 9 ms dis17-ottawa23_GE7-11.net.bell.ca [64.230.147.1]
4 9 ms 11 ms 9 ms core2-ottawa23_G13-0-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.164.2
53]
5 15 ms 12 ms 11 ms core4-montrealak_POS10-2.net.bell.ca [64.230.204
.169]
6 21 ms 21 ms 19 ms core2-newyork83_pos_4_0_0.net.bell.ca [64.230.20
7.146]
7 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms bx4-newyork83_pos_4_0_0.net.bell.ca [64.230.187.
22]
8 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms peer-Telia_bx4-newyork83.net.bell.ca [64.230.187
.58]
9 21 ms 21 ms 25 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.250.166]
10 88 ms 80 ms 80 ms sjo-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.252.153]
11 79 ms 88 ms 80 ms hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86
.54]
12 81 ms 92 ms 82 ms 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.fmt1.he.net [66.160.1
58.241]
13 84 ms 82 ms 82 ms 64.62.180.102
Edit: problem is back at 7:05 pm EST
Edit2: Switched to opendns, all is fine (and much faster ;o).