CoH Game/Website Unreachable Today

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Jon Slamm <bite@mybutt.com> wrote in
news:vqmv01t76nev3koobd54mifuochnr7e87a@4ax.com:

> The network issues CuppaJo mentioned late last night must still be
> afoot, I was booted out of the game around noon and have been
> unable to reconnect since. Also cannot reach the CoH homepage or
> forums. All other internet traffic for me is flowing normally.
> Doesn't look like an ISP issue with DNS resolution, I'm getting
> 65.205.186.54 when pinging www.cityofheroes.com which a friend
> confirmed as the same address he sees. Unfortunately, he reports
> successful connection attempts while I continue to fail, despite
> being local (albeit through a different ISP). Very weird problem.
> Anyone else seeing these issues with accessing the game/website?
>
> jslamm
>

Most of these problems do not have to do with CoH in and of itself,
but the routes by which the internet traffic flows to and from you.

Since there is no single carrier of the entire internet; it is
handled by MCI, UUNET, AT&T, and others; the interconnection between
them and you can become corrupted.

Internet traffic follows the physics of water, easy-flow method.

Plus, route on the internet are held in each router for a
predetermined time, that is set by the indiviual ISP. So, AOL could
keep their routes for 24 hours, while MCI keeps theirs for 48, etc.
Others use dynamic routing, FIFO, least-resistance, et. al.

If you do a traceroute to the IP you might see something like this:

2 67.38.101.2 62ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (dist1-
vlan50.chcgil.ameritech.net ok)
3 67.38.101.243 61ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (bb1-g8-0-
0.chcgil.ameritech.net ok)
4 151.164.191.178 62ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (bb2-p5-
0.chcgil.ameritech.net ok)
5 151.164.240.150 62ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (ex1-p3-
1.eqchil.sbcglobal.net ok)
6 151.164.40.126 62ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (ex2-p11-
0.eqchil.sbcglobal.net ok)
7 144.223.241.57 62ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (sl-st20-chi-0-
0.sprintlink.net ok)
8 204.255.168.41 77ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (0.so-0-1-
0.BR6.CHI2.ALTER.NET ok)
9 152.63.71.97 62ms 62ms 62ms TTL: 0 (0.so-3-1-
0.XL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET ok)
10 152.63.68.89 77ms 77ms 77ms TTL: 0 (0.so-0-0-
0.TL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET ok)
11 152.63.101.50 77ms 77ms 77ms TTL: 0 (0.so-3-0-
0.TL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET ok)
12 152.63.86.193 93ms 93ms 93ms TTL: 0 (0.so-7-0-
0.XL2.MIA4.ALTER.NET ok)
13 152.63.101.45 93ms 108ms 108ms TTL: 0 (0.so-3-0-
0.XR2.MIA4.ALTER.NET ok)
14 152.63.82.209 93ms 108ms 92ms TTL: 0 (276.ATM7-
0.GW4.MIA1.ALTER.NET probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
15 65.217.192.242 108ms 108ms 108ms TTL: 0 (advo-
gw.customer.alter.net probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
16 No Response * * *
17 No Response * * *
18 No Response * * *
19 No Response * * *
20 No Response * * *
21 65.217.192.242 108ms 108ms 108ms TTL: 0 (advo-
gw.customer.alter.net probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
22 No Response * * *
23 No Response * * *
24 No Response * * *
25 No Response * * *
26 65.217.192.242 92ms 108ms 108ms TTL: 0 (advo-
gw.customer.alter.net probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
27 No Response * * *
28 No Response * * *
29 No Response * * *

And I was just playing, yet the router/firewall is not accepting
these ICMP packets and passing a response back to me. But the last
good response was from a gateway (GW) on Alter.net, probably in
Miami.

I could do this in 24/48 hours from now, and might see an entirely
different route to the final destination.

HTH