From where I am (at home on cable), to several domains that I host, I cannot get through. traceroute fails somewhere down in Florida - I'm going from the Comcast network to Level3. I had my brother test and he was able to access my sites via a Savvis - NTT route.

Is there any way to force a route to a particular IP address to travel a different path, or is this decided by a router somewhere that I can't influence.

I have discovered that I can access my domains via 3rd party proxy servers, but I don't really want to type sensitive information such as passwords over a non-secure connection like this.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Without access to the routing tables, I don't know of a way you can do this since that is where your static routes would be defined. Can you possibly establish a VPN connection to another site (office, friend's connection, ?) and try it from there?

I tried a VPN to my office, but I don't believe it's configured so that all traffic goes through it. As I mentioned, my brother, who works maybe 60 miles away from me, was able to get through, but via a different path.

I did find the "mail2web" service at www.mail2web.com, which allows me to at least access my email. Hopefully it's something that will resolve itself soon

The IP protocol allows for adding some routing information to the packets that you send out, but there are two issues with that approach:

• I have no idea how to make any operating system use those fields
• Nowadays, most routers will block packets with those options set

So that leaves you with proxy servers or VPN connections.

good idea! I do remember in the old days people were using anonymous proxy servers to hide their own IP. may be put that in google to find some ...

frosh


PS traceroute.org gives a very good tool to figure where your traffic might stall

Yeah, I have run a traceroute and I can see that traffic stalls here:

I also confirmed that I was able to hit my site through a random proxy server I picked off of one of the many internet lists available. But that still leaves me stuck, since I don't really want to proxy my POP3/SMTP stuff, nor FTP or HTTPS connections to my server

Argh! I am considering forcibly changing my (local) IP address - maybe that will fix the routing problem.

Only if someone is actively blocking your current IP. Otherwise the packets should route identically.

You could try a different ISP, but that's not the type of thing you can usually switch quickly.

I meant www.traceroute.org. There you pick any location and see if and where other providers are stuck routing packets.

frosh

Change you IP: Alter 1 bit of your routers MAC address and reboot modem and router...
Shoud do it.

I have access to some client systems based on IP, so changing my IP is a last resort at the moment. I'm hoping my hosting provider can figure out what is going on.

Thanks for the traceroute.org site, by the way - that was very helpful.