[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia status checkers

[David Gerard]

On 22 January 2011 13:15, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I may try that. But if it helps, the bit it seems to keep getting
> stuck on is where the browser says:
> "waiting for bits.wikimedia.org"
> I've Googled that and some information is coming up, but not much that
> I understand.


Serves up other bits of the page. Traceroute:

$ traceroute bits.wikimedia.org
traceroute to bits.wikimedia.org (91.198.174.233), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  SpeedTouch.lan (192.168.1.254)  1.695 ms  1.956 ms  1.890 ms
 2  losubs.subs.dsl3.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.84.25)  27.030 ms  29.020
ms  30.595 ms
 3  ae0-116.cr1.th-lon.zen.net.net (62.3.84.193)  32.464 ms  33.869 ms
 36.009 ms
 4  linx-2.init7.net (195.66.226.175)  37.908 ms  40.463 ms  42.259 ms
 5  r1ams1.core.init7.net (77.109.128.149)  50.549 ms  52.696 ms  54.103 ms
 6  * * *
 7  te-8-2.csw1-esams.wikimedia.org (91.198.174.254)  66.265 ms
39.420 ms  39.557 ms
 8  bits.esams.wikimedia.org (91.198.174.233)  41.382 ms  43.235 ms  45.353 ms

Different machine, but probably in the same rack!

I'd suspect it's your ISP. Do the traceroute and email it to your ISP
tech support. You may want to attach my messages as what it looks like
from zen.co.uk, so they can see it works for another UK ISP but not
for you.


- d.