[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia status checkers

[David Gerard]

On 22 January 2011 12:37, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I'm having trouble loading any Wikimedia sites from here in the UK.
> Anyone know what the problem is and what the best status page to check
> is? I've found these ones so far:


I should add, en:wp is working fine for me in the UK, so it's up and
Amsterdam is up :-)

Traceroute (tracert in Windows) will indeed give the correct answer.
Here's what mine looks like, from Zen.co.uk:

$ traceroute en.wikipedia.org
traceroute to en.wikipedia.org (91.198.174.232), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  SpeedTouch.lan (192.168.1.254)  2.197 ms  2.467 ms  2.779 ms
 2  losubs.subs.dsl3.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.84.25)  28.342 ms  29.395
ms  31.398 ms
 3  ae0-116.cr1.th-lon.zen.net.net (62.3.84.193)  33.121 ms  34.539 ms
 36.435 ms
 4  linx-2.init7.net (195.66.226.175)  38.810 ms  40.683 ms  42.586 ms
 5  r1ams1.core.init7.net (77.109.128.149)  60.099 ms  60.047 ms  60.466 ms
 6  * * *
 7  ve7.te-8-1.csw1-esams.wikimedia.org (91.198.174.250)  66.193 ms
42.214 ms  41.054 ms
 8  text.esams.wikimedia.org (91.198.174.232)  42.900 ms  44.036 ms  46.132 ms



- d.