On 03/07/12 15:22, Jason White wrote:
Nic Baxter<nic@nicbaxter.com.au> wrote:
I am totally confused by a networking issue I have. I have 3 servers with Linode and am having problems connecting to 2 of them. I have contaced Linode and they insist everything is OK from their end. Friends who run Linode instances reported having serious connectivity problems with them over the last week. Thus you are not alone in this respect.
It seems the packets are reaching the destination, the echo replies are sent out but never arrive. How many hops are there between the last "good" router at the Linode end and the Linode host? If there is at least one, then that could be the problem. Have you tried a reverse traceroute from the server back to your machine? Perhaps the paths in the "forward" and "reverse" directions are different - I've seen that before. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. It is puzzling. The forward and reverse traceroutes are the same so not much help there. Internode cannot see any problem with their connections. My Internode connection from Woodend uses Telstra as the wholesaler and three of my clients who had problems connecting use Telstra as their ISP. Others can connect. Who knows? Anyway I do enjoy a bit of gratuitous Telstra bashing so I will blame them. However that doesn't fix the problem so I decided to move the server to a Mammoth vps and so far so good. My remaining Linode instance is still working well, touch wood.
Cheers Nic