There’s a hole the ‘Net, Dear Liza, Dear Liza…

Posted on November 3, 2003 by

Coworker couldn’t access this site, so I had her run some tests, including this traceroute:
tracert mindlessphilosopher.net
Tracing route to mindlessphilosopher.net [203.194.159.195]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms fe-2-8b.4-193.concord.manchester1-1.nh.G4.Net [2
16.177.4.193]
3 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms fe-3-9.manchester1-1.nh.g4.Net [216.177.5.73]
4 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms fe-0-1-v507.manchester0-1.nh.g4.Net [216.177.5.1]
5 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms fe-0-1.qcy.boston0-1.ma.g4.Net [216.177.5.158]
6 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms fe-0-1-v507.manchester0-1.nh.g4.Net [216.177.5.1]
7 8 ms 7 ms 9 ms fe-0-1.qcy.boston0-1.ma.g4.Net [216.177.5.158]
8 9 ms 7 ms 8 ms fe-0-1-v507.manchester0-1.nh.g4.Net [216.177.5.1]
9 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms fe-0-1.qcy.boston0-1.ma.g4.Net [216.177.5.158]
10 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms fe-0-1-v507.manchester0-1.nh.g4.Net [216.177.5.1]
ad infinitum
I also learned that “temporal network connection error” is the techinal support terminology for “hole in the Internet” (though this was more like a “vortex”).

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2 Responses to There’s a hole the ‘Net, Dear Liza, Dear Liza…

  1. Rachel says:
    November 5, 2003 at 2:51 pm

    I would just like to publicly announce that I am said coworker and would like to take credit for finding the hole in the net. But that’s really a stretch, so mostly I just want to say that I felt cool running things through some cmd thing on my computer and having random computer language pop up. I also want to say that I’m very happy to once again be able to read Aaron’s blog on my computer.

  2. mindless says:
    November 5, 2003 at 3:45 pm

    I was just flattered that you were so concerned you couldn’t get to my blog ;)