OT: Slashdot unavailable?

Completely OT to both groups but for a couple of days I haven't been able to get to slashdot.org. Anybody else having problems? I'm on virginmedia DSL (ex-NTL) in Reading.

traceroute to slashdot.org (216.34.181.45), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * * *

slashdot.org's been fine the past few days... Odd that your traceroute is failling at the very first step though...

Gordon

As another person on Virginmedia DSL (ex-NTL) in Reading, well not *in* Reading but I think fed from round there, I have no problem with slashdot.

In message , John Stumbles writes

Works here on virgin

Works here...

You should at least get a response from your router....

Time to run wireshark and see what is going on?

Thanks to all who replied. I power-cycled the cable modem and router and it worked again. I don't see how either of those could have caused the problem in the way it did (i.e. everything else seemingly working OK) but wtf, it works now ;-)

I had this once...a router firmware upgrade fixed it..the techie who suggested it to me was burbling something about NAT table overflow and persistence..

that was on an old D-Link.

Over the years, we have had several such odd problems where power cycling the modem has worked. Seems to be rare these days. Also seems to reduce in frequency (but was not eliminated) when a) NTL changed the modem; and b) we changed to an Apple Airport Extreme router.

Well this is an old linksys, but NAT table overflow sounds like a reasonable BOFH-style excuse-du-jour to burble ;-)