BladeForums seems a bit slow

[Bob Irons]

Spark,

It's been slow enough to cause comments to pop up on rec.knives, so it must be affecting a bunch of us.

 

[Bob Irons]

Spark, here's a traceroute:

1 csb-gw-new-sub35 (130.14.35.180) 1 ms 1 ms 0 ms
2 nes-fw (130.14.90.225) 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms
3 nes-fe (130.14.15.1) 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms
4 s4-1-1.washdc3-cr7.bbnplanet.net (4.24.76.237) 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms
5 p4-3.washdc3-ba1.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.113) 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms
6 p4-3.vienna1-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.24.7.141) 2 ms 3 ms 3 ms
7 137.39.23.13 (137.39.23.13) 7 ms 5 ms 5 ms
8 146.188.160.78 (146.188.160.78) 4 ms 12 ms 11 ms
9 152.63.32.206 (152.63.32.206) 17 ms 13 ms 11 ms
10 115.ATM7-0.TR2.ATL1.ALTER.NET (146.188.138.189) 29 ms 21 ms 22 ms
11 198.ATM7-0.XR2.ATL1.ALTER.NET (146.188.232.101) 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms
12 194.ATM9-0-0.GW1.JAX1.ALTER.NET (146.188.232.173) 32 ms 34 ms 33 ms
13 leading1-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.69.194) 45 ms 82 ms 334 ms
14 bladeforums.com (216.199.9.67) 299 ms 284 ms 304 ms

 

[Bob Irons]

Spark, here's a traceroute to my daughter's college for comparison:

1 csb-gw-new-sub35 (130.14.35.180) 1 ms 0 ms 1 ms
2 nes-fw (130.14.90.225) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
3 nes-fe (130.14.15.1) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms
4 s4-1-1.washdc3-cr7.bbnplanet.net (4.24.76.237) 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms
5 p4-3.washdc3-ba1.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.113) 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms
6 p7-0.washdc3-br1.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.122) 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms
7 p4-0.bstnma1-br2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.1.246) 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms
8 4.24.7.122 (4.24.7.122) 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms
9 p2-1.nyc4-nbr3.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.238) 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms
10 p2-1.chicago1-nbr1.bbnplanet.net (4.0.3.121) 32 ms 34 ms 33 ms
11 p10-0-0.chicago1-br1.bbnplanet.net (4.0.5.89) 28 ms 29 ms 29 ms
12 bbn.ord2.verio.net (129.250.9.57) 30 ms 31 ms 30 ms
13 ord2.ord0.verio.net (129.250.2.25) 31 ms 30 ms 29 ms
14 d3-0-0-0.r00.anarmi01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.22) 43 ms 39 ms 39 ms
15 fa-4-0-0.r01.anarmi01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.70) 41 ms 40 ms 40 ms
16 d3-5-0-0.r01.pitbpa01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.169) 52 ms 54 ms 49 ms
17 fe5-1-0.pit0.verio.net (129.250.15.193) 63 ms 51 ms 49 ms
18 geneva-gw.pa.verio.net (129.250.200.61) 85 ms 63 ms 61 ms
19 mark.geneva.edu (199.234.16.154) 119 ms * 65 ms

 

[Spark]

Looks like the bog down is at ALTER.NET.

I'll see what's going on.

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

Insert witty quip here

 

[Bob Irons]

Thanks Spark for checking.

Fridays have generally been our worst network day for at least the last 6 or 8 years. Maybe it's a Friday thing.

For the last hour or so, it seems to have been a bit better.

TGIF