On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> wrote: >> days, Mozilla Firefox just hangs "connecting to ...." How can I tell >> if they have started blocking IP addresses from Colombia? > > Try using a few traceroute servers to see if other IP addresses > from Colombia other countries are able to get to them. > > Other than that, I don't think you can tell from the > outside. Neil: Thank you! I didn't know trace route servers existed. From the below, it looks to me as if there may be a problem, at the router past the last one I was able to get to, since the University of Maryland and Careleton University trace route servers also got stuck, just past where I got stuck. Possibly it's intermittent, since the site is showing "up" and I was able to get to it, using an Anonymous Web Browser. Snow in Houston? :-) Lanny from the University of Maryland: Enter an IP address or Hostname: Remote Host: 190.1.x.x (full IP deleted by Lanny) 1 Vlan5.css-nts-r1.net.umd.edu (128.8.5.60) 0.516 ms <snip> 16 te2-3-11-cerber.msk.citytelecom.ru (217.65.1.246) 138.679 ms 17 ixbt-gw.msk.datahouse.ru (89.188.100.110) 138.343 ms from Carleton University in Canada: traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 134.117.14.35 @ hme0 traceroute to 217.65.6.13 (217.65.6.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 unix-gate.physics.carleton.ca (134.117.14.1) 2.629 ms 0.554 ms 0.462 ms <snip> 16 te2-3-11-cerber.msk.citytelecom.ru (217.65.1.246) 145.947 ms 145.750 ms 145.992 ms 17 89.188.100.110 (89.188.100.110) 142.142 ms 141.960 ms 141.842 ms [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ traceroute mobile-review.com traceroute to mobile-review.com (217.65.6.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 ipcop233 (192.168.10.1) 0.603 ms 0.524 ms 0.533 ms <snip> 22 te2-3-11-cerber.msk.citytelecom.ru (217.65.1.246) 219.849 ms 223.813 ms 218.912 ms [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ ping mobile-review.com PING mobile-review.com (217.65.6.13) 56(84) bytes of data. (and it dies there)