NTL blocking sites?

KJF

Is anyone having a problem accessing http://del.icio.us from an NTL broadband connection?

I have 3 pc's in the apartment which cannot access it. Two apples and one windows machine.

It's driving me nuts!

Can anyone using an NTL connection check if the above link works for them.

DingDong

Nope can't access the site.

EDIT: I used a proxy and it worked no problem
69.147.76.140 port 3128

The tax man

Just getting a white screen here.

What kind of site is it?

DingDong

social bookmarking? what ever that is taxman

Pines

Can't access the website with NTL

Can ping the server
Can do a tracert
Can access via a proxy

KJF

Ok, so looks like they are.

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site owned by yahoo.
It's very useful for sharing bookmarks etc.

Have no idea why ntl would block it.

Moriarty

There's a problem with a couple of majorish sites on NTL. It looks like there's an issue inside either NTL or whichever upstream providers they use which is affecting HTTP connections. Anyone care to have a deeper poke around with a packet sniffer to see if they can spot anything strange?

fuse

They're also blocking soulseek, emule, last.fm radio

degsie

Discussed here also...

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?p=532383

John_Mc

fuse wrote: »

They're also blocking soulseek, emule, last.fm radio

Are they allowed to just start blocking soulseek like that? I'm contemplating moving to a different ISP because of this

Freddie59

The tax man wrote: »

Just getting a white screen here.

Same here.

Steffano2002

They blocked the ports to access PaddyPowerPoker the other day and it really frustrated me as I was bored out of my mind! But it was only blocked for a day or so for some reason...

Can't wait to get my Magnet back in a few weeks! They're the best!

anthonymcg

I was wondering wtf was going on with del.icio.us. Now I know. This better be temporary, it's a ridiculous problem for a service provider to be having.

Ste.phen

I get this on archive.org sometimes, as well as facebook sometimes
I suspect they're RST flooding (i.e using a system specifically designed to cut off certain connections and save bandwidth)

landmonster

They are a bunch of poxbottles.

From my own experience I can't use:

http://del.icio.us
Geocities
Zshare
archive.org

and any site hosted by Yahoo.

I would try and contact customer support but I might as well post here for all the good trying to talk to NTL does.

Edit: Also, has anyone else noticed their IP with NTL has changed in the last few days? I used to have an IP of 89.100.xxx.xxx but now it's changed to 79.97.10.xxx

Stil got the same problems with sites though. Obviously.

rcs

I'm with NTL BB & havent been able to access:

http://www.netvibes.com

for the last couple of weeks... Can one of you try it see if you can access it? Every other site works perfectly for me... cheers

DingDong

rcs wrote: »

I'm with NTL BB & havent been able to access:

http://www.netvibes.com

for the last couple of weeks... Can one of you try it see if you can access it? Every other site works perfectly for me... cheers

Works fine for me no hassles

christophicus

rcs wrote: »

I'm with NTL BB & havent been able to access:

http://www.netvibes.com

for the last couple of weeks... Can one of you try it see if you can access it? Every other site works perfectly for me... cheers

This site works for me.

To the person wondering about their IP, mine is still in the 89 range.

yayamark

Done here and here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055174976&highlight=geocities

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055085319&highlight=geocities

Kensington

landmonster wrote: »

Edit: Also, has anyone else noticed their IP with NTL has changed in the last few days? I used to have an IP of 89.100.xxx.xxx but now it's changed to 79.97.10.xxx

Noticed this myself too. Modem logs show the network seem to have gone Thursday morning at about 2am, and since then I've had a 79.xx.xx.xx IP address. And speedtest.net shows my recommended server as Limerick

landmonster

Kensington wrote: »

Noticed this myself too. Modem logs show the network seem to have gone Thursday morning at about 2am, and since then I've had a 79.xx.xx.xx IP address. And speedtest.net shows my recommended server as Limerick

Mine was showing Limerick too but it's Dublin now - via http://ip-adress.com

Speedtest recommends Limerick as the test server though. Weird.

Snowbat

Igy wrote: »

I suspect they're RST flooding (i.e using a system specifically designed to cut off certain connections and save bandwidth)

Comcast have been accused of using this in the USA against P2P traffic. I've never heard of any other provider using it and they'de have to be *really* insane to use it against major websites.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/14/2330202/

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity and technical faults.

landmonster wrote: »

Edit: Also, has anyone else noticed their IP with NTL has changed in the last few days? I used to have an IP of 89.100.xxx.xxx but now it's changed to 79.97.10.xxx

I think you're on to something there. 79/8 is a previously unused block that was released October last year and would still be blacklisted by routers that have not had their bogons lists updated since then. Telefonica Deutschland reported problems using IP addresses in this block last December.
http://osdir.com/ml/operators.sanog/2006-12/msg00004.html

Eircom have had similar problems with allocations in 83/8:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-136857.html

davros

KJF wrote: »

Is anyone having a problem accessing http://del.icio.us from an NTL broadband connection?

I reported the same problem on this forum a couple of months back. It took a few weeks to get NTL to unblock it (on the phone they just told me they don't block sites but they promised twice to have a technical guy call me, which did not happen).

It worked fine for a while but, as you say, del.icio.us is once again being blocked. So I am giving up on the site. I have moved all my bookmarks to Google Bookmarks.

Incidentally, I had a similar problem with secure pages within worldpay.com recently that I am choosing to blame on NTL too.

spektr

last.fm has started to work for me since this morning.

DingDong

A new UBR(router) was install recently which is causing the problem. They know of the problems and are working on them.

christophicus

DingDong wrote: »

A new UBR(router) was install recently which is causing the problem. They know of the problems and are working on them.

How do you know this?? Do they have an eta as to when it will be fixed? Also I think this problem is not just a recent thing, its been around for a while.

DingDong

christophicus wrote: »

How do you know this?? Do they have an eta as to when it will be fixed? Also I think this problem is not just a recent thing, its been around for a while.

I work for them. Don't know the time scale christophicus I'm not involved in getting it sorted.

PhantomBeaker

Ok, the really strange thing is that I can ping del.icio.us but I can't tracepath to it. It can't hop past

17:  ge-2-1-0-p141.msr1.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.19)    asymm 11 162.405ms 

I can get by telnet but the connection is immediately closed, but I can't tell what point does it:

aoife@anovadea:~$ telnet del.icio.us 80
Trying 69.147.76.140...
Connected to del.icio.us.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host

So, I'm getting very mixed signals, I can ping, but tracepath won't give me a good path, but I can connect by telnet to the server but am immediately disconnected (which explains why we get a white page as opposed to "No server found" pages). Yet, I can access most other yahoo services.

This is annoying. Has anyone contacted NTL about this yet?

Aoife

jimmycrackcorm

KJF wrote: »

Is anyone having a problem accessing http://del.icio.us from an NTL broadband connection?

I have 3 pc's in the apartment which cannot access it. Two apples and one windows machine.

It's driving me nuts!

Can anyone using an NTL connection check if the above link works for them.

Thanks a million lad. I tried to surf to that site and it bust my NTL BB connection. Straight away the modem lights went crazy and I couldn't ping anything. When I reset it It wouldn't get an ip address and stayed off. It only got back working this evening.

Actually - wasn't this posted before because I think I did the same thing then too.

spektr

DingDong wrote: »

A new UBR(router) was install recently which is causing the problem. They know of the problems and are working on them.

are they aware of all of the problems? and can you post here, when they are solved please?

DingDong

Snowbat wrote: »

I think you're on to something there. 79/8 is a previously unused block that was released October last year and would still be blacklisted by routers that have not had their bogons lists updated since then. Telefonica Deutschland reported problems using IP addresses in this block last December.
http://osdir.com/ml/operators.sanog/2006-12/msg00004.html

Eircom have had similar problems with allocations in 83/8:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-136857.html

I think snowbat hit the nail on the head. What other sites are people having problems with.

christophicus

I cannot create new profile accounts at yahoo.co.uk, the page won't load.

unreggd

geocities doesnt seem t work on NTL bband

CyberGhost

Imagevenue.com,

Some of their servers haven't worked for me for over a year.

christophicus

Same with imageshack. I cannot access some videos from it.

kess-yo

DingDong wrote: »

I work for them. Don't know the time scale christophicus I'm not involved in getting it sorted.

So do you think, that they're not blocking the p2p servers (Soulseek, e-mule etc.) and all this mess with p2p software not connecting through NTL is just because they installed the new router?

Cause if they would block them, you wouldn't be able to connect at all, but now you can connect, but the connection goes on and off all the time. Innit?

The thought of not being able to use Soulseek gives me chills...

DingDong

kess-yo wrote: »

So do you think, that they're not blocking the p2p servers (Soulseek, e-mule etc.) and all this mess with p2p software not connecting through NTL is just because they installed the new router?

Cause if they would block them, you wouldn't be able to connect at all, but now you can connect, but the connection goes on and off all the time. Innit?

The thought of not being able to use Soulseek gives me chills...

TBH I don't know for sure but I don't think the UBR is the problem more the ip address range in use.

moriez

kess-yo wrote: »

So do you think, that they're not blocking the p2p servers (Soulseek, e-mule etc.) and all this mess with p2p software not connecting through NTL is just because they installed the new router?

Cause if they would block them, you wouldn't be able to connect at all, but now you can connect, but the connection goes on and off all the time. Innit?

The thought of not being able to use Soulseek gives me chills...

My housemates got wireless last week and I tried firing up SoulSeek. Forget about it! I dont even get it to turn green.

spektr

moriez wrote: »

My housemates got wireless last week and I tried firing up SoulSeek. Forget about it! I dont even get it to turn green.

the thing was working for two days last week actually but it isn't again since then.

moriez

Ive sent them an email about it. Lets see if they reply. In the meantime, does anyone have a temp solution?

yayamark

moriez wrote: »

Ive sent them an email about it. Lets see if they reply. In the meantime, does anyone have a temp solution?

Use

http://www.getpassit.com/

Should work a treat:)

moriez

yayamark wrote: »

Use

http://www.getpassit.com/

Should work a treat:)

Care to explain mate?;)

NullZer0

del.icio.us did work at one stage with NTL - then it stopped working all of a sudden for me.

With the NTL nameservers Traceroute shows:

traceroute to del.icio.us (69.147.76.140), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  2.706 ms  2.870 ms  5.747 ms
 2  10.91.224.1 (10.91.224.1)  12.290 ms  16.428 ms  22.864 ms
 3  089-101-162065.ntlworld.ie (89.101.162.65)  23.634 ms  24.351 ms  25.828 ms
 4  dbln-t2core-a-ge-2-1-0-0.aorta.net (213.46.165.5)  25.150 ms  26.622 ms  27.325 ms
 5  dbln-bb-a-ae1-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.53)  32.605 ms  33.343 ms  34.014 ms
 6  dbln-bb-b-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.50)  38.661 ms  20.112 ms  20.429 ms
 7  man-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.45)  25.064 ms  31.713 ms  32.429 ms
 8  bir-bb-a-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.133)  29.422 ms  30.170 ms  30.874 ms
 9  florence-pos20.inet.ntl.com (213.105.175.218)  33.387 ms  34.091 ms  34.796 ms
10  brad-wit-pos.telewest.net (194.117.136.22)  41.710 ms  42.412 ms  43.100 ms
11  194.117.136.169 (194.117.136.169)  39.955 ms  40.529 ms *
12  194.117.136.149 (194.117.136.149)  36.034 ms  25.575 ms  23.588 ms
13  pc-62-30-249-173-ha.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.249.173)  26.301 ms  32.776 ms  40.743 ms
14  pc-62-31-0-204-nm.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.0.204)  45.556 ms  46.257 ms  46.962 ms
15  pc-62-30-249-46-ha.blueyonder.co.uk (62.30.249.46)  43.574 ms  45.247 ms  52.461 ms
16  194.117.136.145 (194.117.136.145)  53.214 ms  53.937 ms *
17  213.228.222.10 (213.228.222.10)  169.405 ms  183.006 ms  183.828 ms
18  so-1-1-0.pat2.dce.yahoo.com (216.115.101.131)  162.801 ms  166.801 ms  171.383 ms
19  ge-3-1-0-p141.msr1.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.59)  175.599 ms  176.289 ms ge-3-1-0-p151.msr2.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.63)  172.166 ms
20  ge-1-2.bas-a2.re1.yahoo.com (66.196.112.13)  174.777 ms  173.957 ms ge-1-3.bas-a1.re1.yahoo.com (66.196.112.7)  179.063 ms
21  * * *
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30  * * *

I've tried changing my DNS to OpenDNS and ran a traceroute with the similar results.

This is a joke.

yayamark

moriez wrote: »

Care to explain mate?;)

open up getpassit.com and put in the address u want in the place where it says web address

CyberGhost

yayamark wrote: »

open up getpassit.com and put in the address u want in the place where it says web address

That's sad that we have to resort to proxying around the problem.

moriez

yayamark wrote: »

open up getpassit.com and put in the address u want in the place where it says web address

Good good, but my problem is SoulSeek not connecting so I dont think that is gonna help me.

00sully

we should all complain, this is absolutely ridiculous.

so far the list in this thread alone is
http://del.icio.us
Geocities
Zshare
archive.org
http://www.netvibes.com
Imagevenue.com
imageshack

all popular sites and im sure there are more. this coupled with their crippling not even close to advertised speeds is getting out of hand. We should not be sitting back and taking this.

I for one am contemplating action and will be informing them of this.

spektr

00sully wrote: »

we should all complain, this is absolutely ridiculous.

so far the list in this thread alone is
http://del.icio.us
Geocities
Zshare
archive.org
http://www.netvibes.com
Imagevenue.com
imageshack

all popular sites and im sure there are more. this coupled with their crippling not even close to advertised speeds is getting out of hand. We should not be sitting back and taking this.

I for one am contemplating action and will be informing them of this.

http://del.icio.us/ doesn't work.
geocities never worked for me.
archive.org works fine
netvibes.com works fine
imagevenue.com works fine
never had any problems with imageshack

soulseek still doesn't work (for a month now?) as well as dc++ by the way.

John_Mc

00sully wrote: »

we should all complain, this is absolutely ridiculous.

so far the list in this thread alone is
http://del.icio.us
Geocities
Zshare
archive.org
http://www.netvibes.com
Imagevenue.com
imageshack

all popular sites and im sure there are more. this coupled with their crippling not even close to advertised speeds is getting out of hand. We should not be sitting back and taking this.

I for one am contemplating action and will be informing them of this.

I'm with you on that one mate! Thankfully, I'm moving house in January so I may be able to get a better ISP than NTL.

00sully

John_Mc wrote: »

I'm with you on that one mate! Thankfully, I'm moving house in January so I may be able to get a better ISP than NTL.

lucky you man I already tried to move to smart but my line wasn't capable

Im getting stuck right into NTL in new year - its my only resoultion

christophicus

spektr wrote: »

http://del.icio.us/ doesn't work.
geocities never worked for me.
archive.org works fine
netvibes.com works fine
imagevenue.com works fine
never had any problems with imageshack

soulseek still doesn't work (for a month now?) as well as dc++ by the way.

Its only some of imageshacks video section.