Web Africa Browsing - Tuesday 2nd August 2011

[Fulton17]

Things sorted your side Fulton?

Hi Jeff,

My apologies for not following up. Thanks for asking

Generally yes, bar my long standing issue of latency which is still a hassle.

 

[Mypro-D]

International is dead for me :/
All other accounts seem to be alright.

 

[WAJeff]

International is dead for me :/
All other accounts seem to be alright.

No reported issues on our end.
Have you given our DSL guys a shout to see if they can see anything from their end?

 

[kilos]

If you are running Windows, install tracetcp , Linux tcptraceroute

tracetcp is a command line traceroute utility for WIN32 that uses TCP SYN packets
rather than ICMP/UDP packets that the usual implementations use, thus bypassing gateways that block traditional traceroute packets.

tracetcp www.cnn.com:80

It will rather prove to you whether their are no issues with a failed proxy server
where you can still ping the remote server.

tracetcp vs tracert

Many sites block ICMP pings, which makes the use of the traditional route tracing tools difficult, as can be seen by the following trace, which uses the standard Windows tracert utility:

EXAMPLE
tracert ib.absa.co.za (ICMP packets blocked)
tracetcp ib.absa.co.za:https (TCP packets allowed thru)