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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
if i may offer a word of advice , double posting about the same problem is not really on , you would be better off *bumping* your original thread after a day or so to 'advertise' it again , as for your problem , sorry , i dont have an answer 
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The original post was made under the proxies section, as at that time I suspected proxies may be either party or wholly responsible. Having made a certain amount of progress with the help of people in that area, I started a seperate thread under the dialup section to try and find someone on the same connection and solicit their aid in trying to duplicate my problem.
I am fully familiar with forums and their usage and if you look closer at the thread you will see I had already bumped it shortly before I started the 2nd. The 2nd was not intended as a "double post" about the same problem, it's aim was to try and obtain additional information about a specific sub-area of my problem - the ntl dialup account - without moving the entire thread away from those with the best knowledge and experience to help. Although I now agree that it is almost certainly not a proxy issue, I do not feel it is uniquely related to dialup access either and thus not best suited to the dialup area. The proxies area was (at the time of my original post) the best area to begin with the information I had at the time. As there is no "Weird routing problems" area I can't help but feel that combining the threads here under dialup can only reduce the chances of my gaining assistance, since most of the people with relevant knowledge (particularly those that were already helping) will now have no idea where this thread has gone.
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Originally Posted by Paul M
I have merged them, and put it in the dial up forum - it's certainly not a proxy problem.
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Can you do a tracert to 212.58.228.154 and another to 222.122.25.35 - use the ip addresses, not the website names.
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As I noted yesterday, DNS appears to be resolving IP's fine, its after the correct IP is returned that problems start. Like the 6 I ran yesterday, the BBC trace works fine after failing the first hop - I'm sure this is highly significant but I have no idea what of

. Tracert to the problem IP never gets off the ground - every hop times out, even when set to 10000ms. The way I see it, a normal packet is given a set of directions to get to the destination -
"Go to this ip, then they will tell you where to go next, repeat until you get there."
In my case however, the first direction is a dead end - the packets just pile up and die lol
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C:\Documents and Settings\George>tracert 212.58.228.154
Tracing route to bogons.mh.bbc.co.uk [212.58.228.154]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 194 ms 149 ms 149 ms gb-bir-c-r2-ge60.inet.ntl.com [80.1.208.194]
3 157 ms 155 ms 149 ms gb-lth-c-r1-pos150.inet.ntl.com [80.1.209.109]
4 158 ms 149 ms 155 ms gb-lth-c-r2-pos00.inet.ntl.com [80.1.209.222]
5 163 ms 154 ms 149 ms gb-ldk-c-r1-pos150.inet.ntl.com [80.1.209.121]
6 166 ms 155 ms 149 ms pop-ic-1-ge-010-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.249]
7 166 ms 149 ms 149 ms pop-bb-a-ge-701-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.246]
8 184 ms 155 ms 167 ms tele-ic-2-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.86]
9 161 ms 155 ms 155 ms ntl-ge2-8.prt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.217]
10 161 ms 157 ms 155 ms 212.58.238.129
11 158 ms 154 ms 161 ms 212.58.238.34
12 172 ms 148 ms 155 ms pos6-0.rt0.mh.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.30]
13 172 ms 161 ms 155 ms bogons.mh.bbc.co.uk [212.58.228.154]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\George>tracert 222.122.25.35
Tracing route to 222.122.25.35 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete.
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Hmmm...when reviewing my last post I noticed something interesting - the tracert for 212.58.228.154 does a reverse DNS lookup and gives the correct domain name. The tracert for 222.122.25.35 doesnt do that, just has the IP. Again I'm sure this is significant but I'm fresh out of relevant knowledge of how these packets are routed :-(