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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 02:07pm on 28/10/2005
Something funny is going on with our internet connection at home. Specifically it's not the connection but connecting to LJ that's the problem. We can't, you see. (I'm writing this from work.) We can't ping www.livejournal.com and a tracert dies at the last hop before www.livejournal.com on some machine at pnap.net (border9.ge1-1-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net [63.251.160.19] to be precise.)

I have a feeling that whatever IP address we're given via NAT by our ISP is being blocked. Bah.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 07:01am on 28/10/2005
Do you get the same IP address every time, or is it the next one in rotation (with DHCP expiring between connections?). G reckons you should phone your ISP with what you've learned already. Or log into work from home to do it? :-)
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 08:19am on 28/10/2005
I've been in touch with the ISP and let them know. A tracert from their machines reaches www.livejournal.com okay, so I'm wondering if we're being blocked on the specific IP address we currently have from their DHCP server. I don't know how long their lease is, but I might be able to proxy through one of the proxy servers in the college and see if that makes a difference.

I can log into LJ and browse it fine from my desktop machine in work, using either of our accounts so it's not LJ getting back at me for posting one too many silly memes.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 08:19am on 28/10/2005
Forgot to answer your specific question: I don't know, but I'll check on the DSL router when I get home.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 08:56am on 28/10/2005
It does sound like it's the IP address you've got that is the problem. Note the number and consider telling the ISP that it's on someone's black list and you don't want it again?
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 12:59pm on 28/10/2005
Got home and rebooted the DSL router. It drew down a new IP address from the ISP's DHCP server and we were able to reach LJ again. I think that the old IP address must have been on a blacklist at LJ, probably because it had been lifted by some b*stard spammer to spoof headers or some such.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 12:24am on 29/10/2005
ah! So that's good, except that you don't have a record of the offending IP address?
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 02:31am on 01/11/2005
Ah, but I do. I recorded the original IP address before rebooting the router, and I passed it on to our ISP. Newton knows if they'll do anything with it, however.

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