anyone else on VM broadband having trouble hitting eir.ie website?

TheAmateur

Just noticed this this morning when I went to top up a phone - I can't access eir.ie unless I go through a proxy. Anyone else seeing the same thing? I guess it's unlikely to be shenanigans behind it, but the mind does wonder!

ED E

Same, resolves but inaccessible.

Traces enter the eir network but no response.

TheAmateur

Ah cool thanks for confirming! So it's not just me then. I see VM have closed down their boards forum so I guess my best bet is to make a twitter and bug them about it there

pizzahead77

I have no problem accessing eir's site on VM.

What DNS servers are you using? I use Google's ones

TheAmateur

I got curious (/bored ) and tried a tracert there :

Tracing route to eir.ie [86.43.151.7]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     3 ms     2 ms     4 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    14 ms    13 ms    13 ms  84.116.236.62
  3    12 ms    22 ms    11 ms  ie-dub01a-rc1-ae-14-0.aorta.net [84.116.239.129]
  4    13 ms    17 ms    23 ms  ie-dub01a-ri1-ae-63-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.174]
  5    17 ms    14 ms    16 ms  lag-40.br1.csg.border.eircom.net [194.88.240.14]
  6    19 ms    17 ms    18 ms  eth-trunk20.hcore1.bdt.core.eircom.net [86.43.10.162]
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.

so it does look to be some random problem with a specific backend I keep getting routed to. I tried a few different DNS as well but I always get routed to that same busted 86.43.10.162

pizzahead77

My trece route times out after the next hop 86.43..242.22 but the website is still accessible - its possible that the internal servers/firewalls are blocking ICMP responses

Tracing route to eir.ie [86.43.151.7]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.215.1
  2    42 ms    89 ms    45 ms  cm-xxxx.ntlworld.ie [80.xxxx]
  3    13 ms    13 ms    20 ms  109.255.249.254
  4    96 ms    21 ms    60 ms  ie-dub02a-rc1-ae-25-0.aorta.net [84.116.238.58]
  5   245 ms    62 ms    74 ms  ie-dub01a-ri1-ae-64-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.210]
  6    17 ms    62 ms    55 ms  lag-40.br1.csg.border.eircom.net [194.88.240.14]
  7    46 ms    30 ms    29 ms  eth-trunk20.hcore1.bdt.core.eircom.net [86.43.10.162]
  8    78 ms    49 ms    48 ms  lag-7-pe1-crz-hcore1-bdt.pe1.crz.crz-crz.eircom.net [86.43.13.5]
  9    16 ms    29 ms    33 ms  86.43.242.22
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.