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In reply to the discussion: Problems accessing DU [View all]Mister Ed
(5,932 posts)* I've been mostly unable to navigate democraticunderground.com from home on any of several computers since last Friday, May 9th. On occasion, the site functions normally for me, but usually not.
* My ISP is CenturyLink DSL, OS is Windows 8.1, browser is Firefox 29.0.1
* Browser window hangs with notation "Transferring data from www.democraticunderground.com".
* Can navigate democraticunderground.com successfully from neighbor's house (ISP Comcast Cable, Apple OS, Safari browser).
* Can navigate the website successfully from home by using election.democraticunderground.com, as suggested elsewhere in this thread (although, on each page, there does seem to be some content that never transfers).
The success of that workaround makes me suspect that several of the IP addresses to which I'm resolving www.democraticunderground.com may be unreliable. Election.democraticunderground.com resolves to only one IP address (216.158.54.195). Www.democraticunderground.com resolves to that same address, but also to these:
216.158.28.195
216.158.28.197
216.158.28.198
216.158.28.199
I see that the third octet in each of these is 28, and not 54 as seen in the address to which election.democraticunderground.com resolves.
A continuous ping to 216.158.54.195 produces reliable replies, while a continuous ping to the addresses in the 216.158.28.x range produces occasional timeouts.
It seems as though whenever I ping democraticunderground.com, it always goes to 216.158.28.198, no matter how many times I flush my DNS cache.
I hope some of this will be useful in the admins' troubleshooting efforts.