Poplar Proxy fault [Archive]

Matth

14-04-2004, 21:37

Chris W

14-04-2004, 21:40

to find out which proxy you are running go here: http://www.all-nettools.com/ and run the proxy test... then we will know which proxy is causing the problem ;)

Neil

14-04-2004, 21:45

I don't know which of the poplar proxy pool normally serves www.hydrogenaudio.org (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org) - AND this forum as well , but it ain't working!

I've forced a different one at poplar to get there, and here.

Proxies don't serve a site, they (in theory) speed up your access to it (not in ntl's case though)

I've just tried your link from work, & it was fine-defo an ntl issue I'm afraid.

You need to ring Tech Support.

threadbare

14-04-2004, 22:23

going to all-nettools will only show which proxy is cacheing the all-nettools page. not which cache is playing up

Matth

15-04-2004, 11:48

DOH! - I forgot - I was experimenting with a new filter, to block all the junk packets from UDP 53 to 1026/1027 - the damn thing took the first bit, and missed the second.

So. NO DNS lookup, and forcing a proxy by IP address (not name!) means you don't NEED DNS.

Only this morning, did I realize it felt like a DNS lookup problem.

I was going to note the proxy, but I can't see an IP address indication anywhere.
I'm not sure what logic they spread the proxies with, but each proxy of the set serves a particular range of sites - maybe just by IP address, maybe geographic, or maybe something clever like spreading the busiest sites across all the proxies .... NAH! - it's NTL, after all ;)

That's why when one proxy goes down (and you're NOT forcing), only some sites are down - in this case, what was up were the ones already in my local DNS cache before the filter foulup.