Ben Bridgwater wrote: > > "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." wrote: > > > > Ben Bridgwater wrote: > > > Today I still can't access 3dfx's domain from work, but also not > > > nvidia.com and macromedia.com.. what the latter two have in common is > > > that traceroute indicates my route to them is thru above.net which per a > > > story on slashdot yesterday is filtering traffic to many domains > > > (including macromedia.com) as part of a "spam" filter that *totally* > > > blocks certain domains (not just e-mail originating from them).. > > > > Please check your "facts" before you post. www.3dfx.com is not in any MAPS > > database, nor is www.nvidia.com or www.macromedia.com. > > What part of the facts I reported are you disputing? > > Well I'm home now, and from here I can access www.macromedia.com and not > www.nvidia.com, and traceroute indicates that I'm NOT going thru > above.net to macromedia, but that I still am for nvidia... > > I hope those facts don't upset you. > > Ben > > P.S. Thanks for the advice about switching ISP Alan. fwiw, it looks like nVidia is an above.net customer. And something's definately weird with their routing. 10 ggr1-p370.sffca.ip.att.net (12.123.13.69) 65.014 ms 60.001 ms 59.938 ms 11 above-att-2.sjc2.above.net (208.184.232.153) 37.589 ms 46.429 ms 41.786 ms 12 core1-core4-oc48.sjc2.above.net (208.184.102.201) 52.474 ms 38.624 ms 38.139 ms 13 core5-sjc2-oc48.sjc1.above.net (216.200.0.177) 39.506 ms 40.452 ms 73.591 ms 14 main1-core5-oc12.sjc1.above.net (208.185.175.250) 38.333 ms 42.583 ms 38.797 ms 15 209.249.170.20.nvidia.com (209.249.170.20) 42.769 ms 39.007 ms 41.632 ms 16 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2) 69.585 ms 50.956 ms 46.793 ms 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * *