David Collier-Brown wrote:
Looks like a dns problem $ nslookup torfree.net nslooku;; connection timed out; trying next origin p ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Relevant records per gtld-servers: ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: torfree.net. 172800 IN NS ns.torfree.net. torfree.net. 172800 IN NS ns2.torfree.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.torfree.net. 172800 IN A 204.225.122.149 ns2.torfree.net. 172800 IN A 204.225.122.150 which shows they put both eggs in the same basket network-wise; traceroute from two locations both go into the weeds somewhere in Convoke's network, their apparent upstream. Notably the crosstoown traceroute ends in: 8 convoke.ip4.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.34.51) 3091.818 ms !H 3098.879 ms !H 3079.178 ms !H which says they _were_ on the other side of that router at TorIX and it's probably unsuccessfully ARPing the nexthop.
$ nslookup freenet.toronto.on.ca Server: 64.71.255.204 Address: 64.71.255.204#53
** server can't find freenet.toronto.on.ca: NXDOMAIN
CIRA's whois server denies knowledge of that domain, though back in the dark ages that was the name format their predecessors foisted on people. -- Anthony de Boer