[OZAPRS] Exetel

[Gerard Hill]

Hi Ray,

I just tried it here and the F6BVP site worked fine.
I'm also on Exetel. Here is the traceroute on Windows:

Tracing route to perso141-g5.free.fr [212.27.63.141]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

   1    <1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
   2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
   3    29 ms    29 ms    28 ms  53.2.233.220.static.exetel.com.au 
[220.233.2.53]
   4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
   5    95 ms    94 ms    28 ms  119.225.5.249
   6    29 ms    29 ms    29 ms  10.251.24.3
   7    29 ms    30 ms    30 ms  61.88.221.65
   8   188 ms   235 ms   196 ms  203.208.148.89
   9   189 ms   188 ms   188 ms  ge-7-0-0-0.plapx-dr1.ix.singtel.com 
[203.208.183.178]
  10   189 ms   188 ms   188 ms  198.32.176.197
  11   259 ms   279 ms   399 ms 
newyork-6k-1-po3.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.58.221]
  12   265 ms   265 ms   266 ms 
washington-6k-1-po3.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.58.210]
  13   345 ms   345 ms   344 ms  th2-6k-3-po10.intf.routers.proxad.net 
[212.27.57.13]
  14   347 ms   347 ms   346 ms 
bzn-crs16-1-be1015.intf.routers.proxad.net [212.27.56.1]
  15   347 ms   354 ms   346 ms  bzn-9k-sys-p.intf.routers.proxad.net 
[212.27.58.125]
  16   348 ms   346 ms   347 ms  perso141-g5.free.fr [212.27.63.141]

Trace complete.

Cheers ... Gerard, VK2IO

On 15/11/2010 6:02 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
> All,
>
> A bit OT but still AR and aprs related.
>
> I'm an Exetel users and I'm generally more than happy with what I get
> for my $$$
>
> Recently (maybe a couple of weeks) I've been unable to connect to
> f6bvp.free.fr and I put it down to a problem at the remote site. Today I
> communicated with With Bernard F6BVP and he seemed surprised.
>
> I conducted numerous test from here with both Linux and WinXP Pro, and
> both Firefox and IE. All resulted in being unable to connect. I don't
> use a firewall on the Linux machines and it's not a Cookie issue.I
> remotely logged on to the local community radio station and was able to
> connect out to f6bvp.free.fr via their Internode account. Ok, the remote
> site is functioning.
>
> I ran traceroute (tracert in Windows) and both Linux and Windows
> machines baulked at the same point -
> bzn-9k-sys-p.intf.routers.proxad.net (212.27.58.125). I posted the
> result of traceroute to Exetel.
>
> I logged a fault with Exetel who want me to change my IP address and
> report back. (Exetel users get a fixed IP address which they can change
> online, without ISP intervention).
>
> I really don't want the inconvenience of changing my IP address so I
> asked Vince VK2CVR (also an Exetel user) to try a connect to
> f6bvp.free.fr. Same result, no connection, Vince advised he's been
> having problems for about 6 weeks.
>
> Exetel have been advised of another customer with the same problem but I
> expect they will still insist I change my IP address.
>
> Would contributors to this list who use Exetel please try to connect to
> f6bvp.free.fr and report back to this list with either success or failure?
>
> Ray vk2tv