Hertfordshire Grid (thegrid.org.uk)

[internetguy]

As some of you may know, alot of schools in hertfordshire use thegrid.org.uk for internet access and thegrid gets internet access from ntl/telewest/virgin media... just wondering if anyone is having problems access some US sites through it? I can't get on my site from school, yet i can at home (im on ntl)

[cybernetic_tiger]

It's on the same core network so if you can get to it from an NTL home account the routing is the same, could be an issue with IP addressing or a proxy that the grid uses.

Can you provide any traces?

[internetguy]

Sorry I can't provide any traceroutes, my school uses RM software and stuff like doing traceroutes is blocked for student users :(

I've noticed stuff does go trough quite a few proxies (e.g romeo.thegrid.org.uk:8080 or echo.thegrid.org.uk:8080) so I guess it could be a problem with one of those but I was able to access my site from school two weeks ago, doing a traceroute from here (home) shows the traffic to my site goes through level3, there was a thread a few days ago about people not being able to access sites through level3 yet other people could, that might be the problem... :(

[sprattgraham]

I remember RM complete pain in the ass.

Is your school in the same town as your home

[internetguy]

Yup, both in stevenage :) The server im trying to access is 72.232.195.114 btw :)

[sprattgraham]

Seems ok here in Bishop's Stortford, have you spoke to the network admin and asked them to do a tracert