[Systems] Possible DNS issues

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> For some reasons, some machines in South Asia (at least India and Sri
> Lanka) are not being able to access translate.sugarlabs.org unless the
> IP is mentioned in /etc/hosts
> Is there any way to diagnose this ?
> Traceroute seems to work fine:
>
> traceroute to translate.sugarlabs.org (140.186.70.53), 30 hops max, 60
> byte packets
>  1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  0.370 ms  0.491 ms  0.463 ms
>  2  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  2.868 ms  2.856 ms  2.788 ms
>  3  ABTS-North-Static-136.237.160.122.airtelbroadband.in
> (122.160.237.136)  38.302 ms  40.023 ms  41.488 ms
>  4  ABTS-North-Static-129.237.160.122.airtelbroadband.in
> (122.160.237.129)  43.828 ms  45.737 ms  47.989 ms
>  5  125.20.10.165 (125.20.10.165)  50.351 ms  52.222 ms  54.645 ms
>  6  125.21.167.70 (125.21.167.70)  115.291 ms  91.046 ms  92.831 ms
>  7  so-4-0-0.edge1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.78.196.9)  314.423 ms
> 314.044 ms  315.989 ms
>  8  ae-34-80.car4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.134)  391.545 ms
> 391.658 ms ae-24-70.car4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.70)  390.769
> ms
>  9  BANDCON.car4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.71.128.22)  377.253 ms
> 379.614 ms  381.470 ms
> 10  199.232.45.157 (199.232.45.157)  385.912 ms  387.969 ms  397.877 ms
> 11  199.232.45.21 (199.232.45.21)  393.544 ms  394.312 ms  363.663 ms
> 12  ge-4-1-0-000.ar1.qcy1.ma.gnaps.net (199.232.44.134)  370.322 ms
> 372.179 ms  368.747 ms
> 13  link74-182.cent.net (199.232.74.182)  373.661 ms  374.301 ms  373.799 ms
> 14  sunjammer.sugarlabs.org (140.186.70.53)  374.857 ms  375.211 ms  375.513 ms
>


Disabling IPv6 on my system seems to have solved the problem (not sure
exactly what was going wrong though - I noticed similar complaints on
some Fedora mailing list, and disabling IPv6 was suggested as a
possible workaround).
Thanks,
Sayamindu


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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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