[outages] Network Solutions unreachable?

Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. LarrySheldon at cox.net
Thu Jul 31 14:52:19 EDT 2008


Keegan.Holley at sungard.com wrote:
> I get nearly the same the in g on a traceroute.  I can pull the site up in 
> a browser though.  NS1-3 didn't resolve in dns.


Here is a news flash for you.

Several sites now block (or refuse to react to) pings and route traces.

This has the effect making attempts at those things and reporting 
failures noise at best and abuse at worst.
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