IS and Afrihost had SAT-3 problems a few days ago. I was incensed that my normally stable internet connection was down. Then the Assvoelkop Telkom exchange was off Thursday morning, and they are so [expletive] indifferent, couldn't give a [expletive] damn. I protested as only I can do (you think Isabel Jones was bad?) and within an hour it was up and running, and has been stable since. But I heard from Afrihost that the SAT-3 (whatever that's supposed to mean) was in fact "down". Nou ja!
Tracing route to www.afrihost.com [196.38.88.28]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms Router [10.0.0.2]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2253.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.181]
4 24 ms 29 ms 29 ms cdsl1-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.17]
5 23 ms 30 ms 29 ms core6a-rba-gi1-0-0.ip.isnet.net [168.209.1.165]
6 26 ms 28 ms 29 ms core2a-bry-gi0-0-2-216.ip.isnet.net [168.209.100
.201]
7 25 ms 29 ms 28 ms csw1-b-jup-bry-gi3-2.ip.isnet.net [168.209.218.2
1]
8 26 ms 30 ms 29 ms 196.34.134.105
9 31 ms 37 ms 28 ms gw.aserv.co.za [196.33.227.1]
10 29 ms 28 ms 33 ms www.afrihost.com [196.38.88.28]
Trace complete.
Why is the 2nd hop always * * * Request timed out?