Thaivisa Access

[Tywais]

I've recently been having difficulties accessing Thaivisa from the university, 'Cannot retrieve URL'. However I created a private proxy server in the US (for emergencies and legal purposes) and can access it from there. Right now this is the only way I can get access. Pinging Thaivisa.com is successfull but not accessible. Anyone else having difficulties?

[lomatopo]

No problems here. I recently added some new, additional DNS servers into my router as I was having problems accessing some sites (www.ubctv.com, for one)in Thailand. Only ~ 20% of TV members are in Thailand.

[george]

No problems reported. Could you please post a tracert?

[Jockstar]

All fine here in Bangkok.

[Tywais]

No problems reported. Could you please post a tracert?

It's available again. Seems very intermittant but has been happening several times today where no connection to Thaivisa through the URL but can ping and my proxy (US based) works. Usually lasts from 10 to 20 minutes at a time. Suppose it is possible that the uni is doing something with the routers, but no problems with other sites and has been occuring over the last week. As long as I have some means to access it, not too worried just much slower going through my proxy. Just was concerned there was some block attempts, but if no one else has the problem maybe just localized. Thanks for your help guys - from a TV addict.

traceroute to thaivisa.com (203.174.84.82), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets

1 202.28.24.193 (202.28.24.193) 0.623 ms 0.494 ms 0.521 ms

2 192.168.252.1 (192.168.252.1) 1.450 ms 1.153 ms 1.609 ms

3 202.28.27.43 (202.28.27.43) 178.784 ms 163.388 ms 166.197 ms

4 202.129.34.129 (202.129.34.129) 166.974 ms 193.565 ms 178.003 ms

5 202.129.30.61 (202.129.30.61) 178.878 ms 197.268 ms *

6 202.47.247.250 (202.47.247.250) 206.310 ms 284.789 ms 260.196 ms

7 202.47.254.129 (202.47.254.129) 337.022 ms * 340.121 ms

8 202.47.253.134 (202.47.253.134) 358.579 ms 325.947 ms *

9 202.47.252.242 (202.47.252.242) 369.407 ms 378.556 ms 332.077 ms

10 * * vlan907-an-cat6k-ts1-r1.starhub.net.sg (203.118.3.215) 355.701 ms

11 * gi-5-1-0-an-ats-loc04.starhub.net.sg (203.118.5.11) 356.250 ms 339.520 ms

12 203.117.6.210 (203.117.6.210) 368.966 ms * 373.491 ms

13 fe8-0-0.eqx.newmediaexpress.com (203.174.80.6) 364.325 ms 355.969 ms 351.798 ms

14 * thaivisa.com (203.174.84.82) 376.336 ms 368.758 ms

Edited September 26, 2006 by tywais

[Prasert]

Yesterday there were problems on the Level3 backbone in the USA. The topicstarter probably experienced timeouts due to this, since his proxy server is in the USA (and his traffic was probably going over Level3).

[Tywais]

Yesterday there were problems on the Level3 backbone in the USA. The topicstarter probably experienced timeouts due to this, since his proxy server is in the USA (and his traffic was probably going over Level3).

The problem has been my TV access within Thailand. On those occasions where it no longer works (in Thailand) I have to use my proxy in the US which does work to access TV. Just being paranoid probably that it started happening shortly after the 'event' and may turn out as a localized problem. Just odd that it was only TV (that I've seen the problem with)

[monty]

I've had exactly the same thing before (not in the last two weeks though)...

I could ping pretty much any site, but trying to open it just results in a time out.

Some sites work perfect, others simply tme out.

Doing some tracerts, I tracked down the problem to Singtel. It seemed access to some sites went from the CAT gateway straight to America, but others sites (also hosted in the USA) were routed through Singtel/Singapore.

Everything through Singtel timed out, all the rst was OK.

Google went though Singtel so no luck. Yahoo was perfectly OK, straight from the CAT gatewy to the USA...

Now I gues this doesn't help a lot since now Thaivisa is actually hosted in Singapore

[Tywais]

Just an update, appears the problem was localized (university). TV access through normal means was not possible for the last two days, also more sites started becoming unaccessible. Talked with one of my grad students and he showed me that there was an upgrade being made. The CMU to Bangkok pipe was being increased from 48Mbps to 60Mbps, the third speed upgrade this year. The main issue was they switched from CAT to TT&T and that will cause headaches as they regenerate new routing tables.

Just came back a few minutes ago and it is fast, just hope it stays this way. Thanks for the replies.