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#119334 28-May-2013 17:31

All day today both geekzone and trademe have been unreachable/no response. Other websites seem fine.

I can reach both through anon proxy like hidemyass.com

using standard dns

transparent proxy problem??

posting from mobile since cant login through anon proxy

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#827215 28-May-2013 17:40

Hmmmm, interesting. I did a wget to see the headers and it worked. So I look in chrome again, dead. So i look in firefox..works.

I wonder if it is trouble with chrome trying to connect to a google server or something. Time for wireshark

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#827222 28-May-2013 18:00

I've got the same thing. Some sites are loading fine but others start loading then stop. Happens on both international and national sites. Chch cable

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#827224 28-May-2013 18:11

I've had a lot of issues recently, especially after DNS changes with sites not loading in Chrome.

It very much looks like Google is doing some kind of DNS hijack, or something.

They always work fine in other browsers, and eventually come right in Chrome.

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#827227 28-May-2013 18:20

Firefox working was just fluke. it's just as bad now

looks like massive packet loss for certain http connections

lots of dup ack and tcp retransmission packets, and ultimately no response

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#827239 28-May-2013 18:27

Yup same here wife rang vodafone at 1:30 pm and they told her there were no problems, and as she isn't named on the account they weren't wiling to go into anymore troubeshooting

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#827241 28-May-2013 18:30

Already working on the issue

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#827369 28-May-2013 21:38

good to hear it is being worked on, because at the moment it is totally unusable

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#827375 28-May-2013 21:45

oh just checked the network status page

they can't replicate ther problem anymore and think it is r3esolved

perhaps they woild like to stop by my place and they can see the problem is very much NOT resolved. can't access trademe, geekzone, many other sites, other connections are flakey...

I'm beginning to wonder if voda just bit off more than they can chew with the cable network

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#827386 28-May-2013 22:00

hmm network status says they can't replicate the issue.

But I am still having major trouble getting many websites to load, Facebook, youtube etc. ??

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#827405 28-May-2013 22:20

Major issue in Christchurch, Upper Riccarton here.

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#827408 28-May-2013 22:25

Upper riccarton here too. Still having issues as well, having to use a vpn to do anything.

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#827409 28-May-2013 22:28

I don't think it's resolved and it must be something else.

A couple of days ago I noticed latency to to Australia increased three or four times (cdn.geekzone.co.nz for example went up from 35ms to 160ms). This came right after a couple of hours. But I noticed that today this started in the morning and is still going on. Ping to cdn.geekzone.co.nz (Sydney) is getting 150ms instead of the usual 35 - 40ms.

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#827417 28-May-2013 22:41

Problems in Cashmere, Christchurch as well. Started 4.30ish this afternoon. Some traffic moves, other traffic seems like it is missing a return route from the remote server. Traceroutes stop inside the TCL network .. from inside and out.

Can access the affected sites fine via cellular-data. Helpdesk have booked a tech to come and 'look at my wiring' on thursday ... this feels more like a routing issue... offered to send him traceroutes from both ends ... declined.

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#827466 29-May-2013 01:55

This is an MTU problem

I have reduced my MTU to 600 and this appears to correct the problem.

I discovered this by accident, I sent a very short email and it worked, I sent a longer email and it hung, I then had a eureka moment - a packet size problem. I reduced the MTU and the long email sent without any problem. I increased the MTU back to 1500 and the long email failed to send again.

I can reliably replicate this. MTU 1500, problems evident, MTU 600, problems gone.

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#827477 29-May-2013 07:29

How or where you change the MTU though?

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