verizon trouble ticket NJ DQ04PWR9 -- is verizon blocking FLOKsociety.org by accident or on purpose?

Fri Oct 4 16:17:51 UTC 2013

My traceroute goes through, but we don't go through Verizon. However, the web server is returning an error that it is unavailable. It's possible that the destination web server has a geo location plug in that stops access from foreign locations, or that their server is down. 

[root at lancaster ~]# traceroute -I 200.10.150.169   
traceroute to 200.10.150.169 (200.10.150.169), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  129.77.108.252 (129.77.108.252)  0.345 ms  0.384 ms  0.442 ms
 2  switch-user1.ox.com (129.77.154.253)  0.408 ms  0.523 ms  0.585 ms
 3  rtr-inet2.ox.com (129.77.1.252)  3.394 ms  3.437 ms  3.464 ms
 4  129.77.3.254 (129.77.3.254)  0.515 ms  0.517 ms  0.541 ms
 5  189d20f9.cst.lightpath.net (24.157.32.249)  4.909 ms  4.923 ms  4.922 ms
 6  18267502.cst.lightpath.net (24.38.117.2)  7.318 ms  9.900 ms  9.889 ms
 7   (69.74.203.201)  9.877 ms  9.444 ms  9.434 ms
 8  * * *
 9  adsl-065-015-003-181.sip.mia.bellsouth.net (65.15.3.181)  9.455 ms * *
10  * * *
11  xe-9-1-2.edge2.Newark1.Level3.net (4.31.45.173)  8.378 ms  14.395 ms  14.244 ms
12  ae-32-52.ebr2.Newark1.Level3.net (4.69.156.62)  39.992 ms  42.318 ms  42.303 ms
13  ae-4-4.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.101)  42.283 ms  42.284 ms  42.280 ms
14  ae-62-62.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.146)  50.599 ms  50.594 ms  50.586 ms
15  ae-61-61.ebr1.washington1.level3.net (4.69.134.129)  40.769 ms  43.276 ms *
16  ae-2-2.ebr3.atlanta2.level3.net (4.69.132.85)  43.293 ms  39.230 ms  38.957 ms
17  ae-73-73.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.148.254)  38.942 ms  38.942 ms  38.501 ms
18  ae-2-2.ebr2.miami1.level3.net (4.69.140.141)  39.404 ms  37.772 ms  37.487 ms
19  ae-2-52.edge1.Miami2.Level3.net (4.69.138.107)  50.685 ms  50.674 ms  50.568 ms
20  telefonica.edge1.miami2.level3.net (4.71.212.118)  62.446 ms  60.038 ms  59.416 ms
21  176.52.251.189 (176.52.251.189)  57.850 ms  58.637 ms  58.541 ms
22  176.52.252.66 (176.52.252.66)  94.381 ms  97.548 ms  99.258 ms
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  host-186-5-116-193.telconet.net (186.5.116.193)  118.811 ms  118.803 ms  118.808 ms
27  host-186-101-89-42.telconet.net (186.101.89.42)  98.612 ms  98.589 ms  98.605 ms
28  200.10.150.169 (200.10.150.169)  98.534 ms  98.564 ms  98.505 ms

<root at newton> dig +short www.floksociety.org.
200.10.150.169

<root at newton> telnet 200.10.150.169 80
Trying 200.10.150.169...
Connected to 200.10.150.169.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Server: Varnish
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Retry-After: 5
Content-Length: 418
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:12:33 GMT
Connection: close

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>503 Service Unavailable</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Error 503 Service Unavailable</h1>
    <p>Service Unavailable</p>
    <h3>Guru Meditation:</h3>
    <p>XID: 477990820</p>
    <hr>
    <p>Varnish cache server</p>
  </body>
</html>
Connection to 200.10.150.169 closed by foreign host.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Cook [mailto:cook at cookreport.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 12:10 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org list
> Subject: verizon trouble ticket NJ DQ04PWR9 -- is verizon blocking FLOKsociety.org by
> accident or on purpose?
> 
> 
> Dear NANOG
> 
> The Ecuadoran government has via the FLOK society hired Michel Bauwens of the P2p
> foundation to lead a two year long efforts to revision the ecudoran economy along the
> lines of a commons oriented collaborative society.  I am very interested in the program
> yet i have NEVER been able to connect to their web site.   At the end of two hours of
> trouble shooting with apple i was advised to call verizon.  I am a FiOS customer on a two
> year contact.  The traceroute below confirmed that the fault is in verizons network.  The
> verizon tech agreed otherwise i never would have gotten the trouble ticket
> 
> my verizon trouble ticket is NJ DQ04PWR9.
> 
> Can someone tell me what number to call to pursue resolution of this trouble ticket?
> 
> as of 12:04 eastern time i still cannot connect
> 
> 24 hours was the promise
> 14 of the 24 have elapsed
> 
> > traceroute to floksociety.org (200.10.150.169), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
> >  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.759 ms  0.309 ms  0.357 ms
> >  2  l100.cmdnnj-vfttp-26.verizon-gni.net (98.110.50.1)  36.778 ms  17.508 ms  7.316 ms
> >  3  * g0-3-4-5.cmdnnj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.119)  6.482 ms !N *
> >  4  * * g0-3-4-5.cmdnnj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.119)  7.101 ms !N
> >  5  * g0-3-4-5.cmdnnj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.119)  9.239 ms !N *
> >  6  g0-3-4-5.cmdnnj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.119)  6.823 ms !N *  8.846 ms !N
> >
> >
> >
> > Traceroute has started...
> >
> > traceroute to 200.10.150.169 (200.10.150.169), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
> >  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  0.622 ms  0.305 ms  0.361 ms
> >  2  l100.cmdnnj-vfttp-26.verizon-gni.net (98.110.50.1)  6.633 ms  4.892 ms  4.809 ms
> >  3  * * *
> >  4  g0-3-4-5.cmdnnj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.119)  10.441 ms !N * *
> >  5  * * *
> >  6  g0-3-4-5.cmdnnj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.119)  9.932 ms !N * *
> >  7  * * *
> >  8  * * *
> >  9  * * *
> > 10  * * *
> > 11  g0-3-4-5.cmdnnj-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.119)  9.765 ms !N * *
> > 12  * * *
> > 13  * * *=
> 
> 
> Lookup has started...
> 
> Trying "floksociety.org"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13700
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;floksociety.org.                      IN        ANY
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> floksociety.org.           600      IN        A         200.10.150.169
> floksociety.org.           3600    IN        MX      10 mail.floksociety.org.
> floksociety.org.           3600    IN        NS       ns57.domaincontrol.com.
> floksociety.org.           3600    IN        NS       ns58.domaincontrol.com.
> floksociety.org.           3600    IN        SOA    ns57.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net.
> 2013092400 28800 7200 604800 600
> 
> Received 174 bytes from 8.8.8.8#53 in 139 ms
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