Broken internet |
2006-04-21
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Somehow the internet connection at the hotel is pretty flaky - hosts go away all the time, connections get dropped, and so on.
I couldn't post my last post because it claimed our server was done. A traceroute showed
[root@otto qc-usb-0.6.3]# traceroute thomas.apestaart.org traceroute to thomas.apestaart.org (64.233.185.111), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 200.175.64.1.adsl.gvt.net.br (200.175.64.1) 17.764 ms * * 3 ge (200.175.89.129) 23.807 ms  20.764 ms  19.847 ms 4 201.47.192.33 (201.47.192.33) 18.507 ms  21.117 ms  25.016 ms 5 pos (200.139.112.86) 269.329 ms  266.176 ms pos (200.139.112.146) 33.425 ms 6 GE2 (213.140.51.237) 178.371 ms  397.465 ms  398.535 ms 7 So5 (213.140.36.65) 177.001 ms  176.764 ms  178.495 ms 8 so (213.140.43.125) 177.432 ms  179.925 ms  177.145 ms 9 Google (213.140.52.142) 392.205 ms  392.007 ms Google (213.140.52.42) 179.016 ms 10 216.239.46.19 (216.239.46.19) 178.093 ms  177.834 ms  179.362 ms 11 www.hackerteen.com.br.localdomain (72.14.236.201) 396.576 ms  391.961 ms 72.14.236.178 (72.14.236.178) 179.753 ms 12 66.249.95.149 (66.249.95.149) 189.074 ms  392.318 ms  392.449 ms 13 72.14.239.17 (72.14.239.17) 393.403 ms  393.549 ms * 14 * 72.14.238.194 (72.14.238.194) 393.850 ms  392.496 ms 15 pop.gmail.com (64.233.185.111) 180.478 ms  197.719 ms  202.391 ms
Notice how
- the local DNS server resolved my server name wrong
- not only was it wrong, but having it be so wrong as to point to gmail.com is probably not just an accident
- hop 11 has an, uhm, interesting host name
Editing /etc/hosts, adding an entry, and forcing a new traceroute allowed me to finally post my entry.