[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia status checkers

[Thomas Dalton]

On 22 January 2011 13:40, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:21 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> $ traceroute bits.wikimedia.org
>
> I did this, and if I'm understanding it right it took 19 "hops". The
> first one looks like my cable modem, the second one I don't recognise
> at all(!), the next eight are my ISP, the eleventh is from an IP in
> the Netherlands, the twelfth is "knams.wikimedia.org", the thirteenth
> is "esams.wikimedia.org", and then it timed out five times, and then
> it completed the trace on hop 19 at the prompted destination of
> bits.esams.wikimedia.org.
>
> This is really useful for visualising how internet traffic works! :-)
>
> But my connection is still not working. :-(
>
> I may try hassling my ISP, or I may just go shopping.

Are you having difficulty accessing any other sites? Wikipedia is
working perfectly for me (in the UK), so it's very unlikely to be a
problem with Wikipedia. The problem must be at your end.

bits.wikimedia.org is where things like the CSS come from. Try
en.wikipedia.org - that's the actual domain you need to be able to
access.