[tex-live] www.tug.org unreachable

[Denis Bitouzé]

Le 18/12/17 à 23h22, Reinhard Kotucha a écrit :

> On 2017-12-18 at 22:10:45 +0100, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
>
>  > Le 18/12/17 à 21h44, Rick Graham a écrit :
>  > 
>  > > ... I'm also curious to know if the TOR Browser
>  > > <https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en> works for you,
>  > > since it will most assuredly take a different path, etc., to
>  > > www.tug.org.
>  > 
>  > Bingo! That works :)
>
> Denis, the actual problem is not solved so far, sorry.

Sigh...

> When you start the Tor browswer, it says, for instance
>
>   Your IP address appears to be: 62.212.73.141
>
> But this IP address is not yours and you get another one when you
> start the browser again.

I see.

> What happens is that your browser connects to this remote machine and
> the remote machine sends your requests to www.tug.org and sends you
> the results.  This works, of course, because
>
>   http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
>
> already told you that everbody except you can access www.tug.org .
>
> Using the Tor browser is probably a nice workaround for http(s) and
> ftp but it doesn't help if you need rsync, for example.

Sigh...

>  > I guess we can conclude neither my router nor my configuration are
>  > the culprits...
>
> I can't imagine that there is something wrong at your site

My site? Probably tug.org instead, isn't it? :)

> because you said that everything else works fine.
>
> BTW, tug.org and preining.info have completely different IP-numbers:
>
>   tug.org:         91.121.174.77
>   preining.info:   142.4.209.99

Okay.

> Maybe one of the routers between Calais and Roubaix is
> screwed up.  Can anybody tell me what * * * means in the output of
> traceroute? 

I don't know exactly myself.

Regards.
-- 
Denis