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I'm on a TelstraClear / Paradise cable modem.

When I try to access the web site for the "Independent" in the UK, I
get:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access
"http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?" on this
server.

I'm thinking they have started blocking IPs they may consider possible
sources of SPAM....

Has anyone else seen this? Can everyone else access this site from their
networks?

Jeremy Bentham allegedly said:

> I'm on a TelstraClear / Paradise cable modem.
>
> When I try to access the web site for the "Independent" in the UK, I
> get:
>
> Access Denied
> You don't have permission to access
> "http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?" on this
> server.
>
> I'm thinking they have started blocking IPs they may consider possible
> sources of SPAM....
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Can everyone else access this site from their
> networks?

Full URL is:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/env...p?story=431319

I can't even access: www.independent.co.uk

"Jeremy Bentham" <> wrote in message
news:ibBZa.10553$...
> Jeremy Bentham allegedly said:
>
> > I'm on a TelstraClear / Paradise cable modem.
> >
> > When I try to access the web site for the "Independent" in the UK, I
> > get:
> >
> > Access Denied
> > You don't have permission to access
> > "http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?" on this
> > server.
> >
> > I'm thinking they have started blocking IPs they may consider possible
> > sources of SPAM....
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this? Can everyone else access this site from their
> > networks?
>
> Full URL is:
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/env...p?story=431319
>
> I can't even access: www.independent.co.uk
>
No problem here on Ihug.

"Jeremy Bentham" <> wrote in message
news:ibBZa.10553$...
[...]
> > I'm thinking they have started blocking IPs they may consider possible
> > sources of SPAM....
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this? Can everyone else access this site from their
> > networks?
>
> Full URL is:
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/env...p?story=431319
>
> I can't even access: www.independent.co.uk
>

I use a TelstraClear / Paradise cable modem and can access both links.

Tony.

In article <ibBZa.10553$>, Jeremy Bentham
wrote...
> Has anyone else seen this? Can everyone else access this site from their
> > networks?
>
> Full URL is:
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/env...p?story=431319
>
> I can't even access: www.independent.co.uk
>
>

Works from xtra. If you are still having trouble try via a proxy site.

http://www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html

Anthony Neville allegedly said:

>
> I use a TelstraClear / Paradise cable modem and can access both links.
>
> Tony.

....and you're on the 202.0.47 subnet?

"Jeremy Bentham" <> wrote in message
news:9GBZa.10571$...
> Anthony Neville allegedly said:
>
> >
> > I use a TelstraClear / Paradise cable modem and can access both links.
> >
> > Tony.
>
> ...and you're on the 202.0.47 subnet?

Yes.

Tony.

"Jeremy Bentham" <> wrote in message
news:5aBZa.10550$...
> I'm on a TelstraClear / Paradise cable modem.
>
> When I try to access the web site for the "Independent" in the UK, I
> get:
>
> Access Denied
> You don't have permission to access
> "http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?" on this
> server.
>
> I'm thinking they have started blocking IPs they may consider possible
> sources of SPAM....
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Can everyone else access this site from their
> networks?
>

It would appear that the DNS is trying to point them at an NZ site which is
broken :

Mon Aug 11 13:27:26 doh:~# traceroute www.independent.co.uk
traceroute: Warning: www.independent.co.uk has multiple addresses; using
203.167.223.235
traceroute to a673.g.akamai.net (203.167.223.235), 30 hops max, 38 byte
packets
1 corokia (192.168.0.32) 0.492 ms 0.355 ms 0.343 ms
2 fe7-3-2.bertha.paradise.net.nz (203.79.92.1) 12.188 ms 13.657 ms
11.950 ms
3 g1-0-1042.u21.tar.telstraclear.net (203.98.23.41) 14.877 ms 16.028 ms
15.126 ms
4 g9-0.1041.u12.brh.telstraclear.net (203.98.21.37) 21.896 ms 38.879 ms
27.763 ms
5 g1-926.u11.pnr.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.33) 28.910 ms 29.784 ms
28.522 ms
6 v927.cs1.akl.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.1) 24.726 ms 29.510 ms
21.298 ms
7 a203-167-223-235.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (203.167.223.235) 22.947
ms 28.175 ms 27.710 ms
Mon Aug 11 13:27:41 doh:~# host www.independent.co.uk
www.independent.co.uk CNAME travel.independent.co.uk.edgesuite.net
travel.independent.co.uk.edgesuite.net CNAME a673.g.akamai.net
a673.g.akamai.net A 203.167.223.235
a673.g.akamai.net A 203.167.251.147
Mon Aug 11 13:27:56 doh:~# telnet www.independent.co.uk 80
Trying 203.167.251.147...
Connected to a203-167-251-147.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
HTTP/1.0 408 Request Time-out
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:30:57 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 163
Expires: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:30:57 GMT

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Request Timeout</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Request Timeout</H1>
The server timed out while waiting for the browser's request.<P>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
Mon Aug 11 13:30:57 doh:~#

yes, i was having the same problem yesterday, trying to access the
independent. Still having same thing happening today.

I'm on Paradise adsl in auckland.

M allegedly said:

>
> It would appear that the DNS is trying to point them at an NZ site which
> is broken :

Yes....Paradise help desk sent me an e-mail saying they are having problems
with a caching server.

They see it as a serious problem and are working to fix it ASAP.