Freenet6 is alive and kicking (Was: [6bone] freenet6 service gone?)

[Jeroen Massar]

Andreas Ott wrote:

> during the past days I'm having a hard time establishing the 
> connection back to Freenet6. Did I miss any announcement about it
being down?

It still works perfectly well.

> Their DNS is mostly gone and consequently their web page is not
> easily reachable, using a numeric IP it times out.

Use traceroute and call your upstream ISP.

$ ping www.freenet6.net
PING www.freenet6.net (206.123.31.114) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.freenet6.net (206.123.31.114): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241
time=120 ms
64 bytes from www.freenet6.net (206.123.31.114): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241
time=126 ms

(Mind you this is pinging from the Netherlands, at the other side of the
pond :)

$ mtr --report --report-cycles=5 www.freenet6.net
HOST                                    LOSS  RCVD SENT    BEST     AVG
WORST
gw-64-92.sms-1.ams-tel.cistron.net        0%     5    5   16.67   17.69
19.60
ve10.rtr-1.ams-tel.cistron.net            0%     5    5   17.05   17.71
18.04
adm-tc1-i2-feth3-0.telia.net              0%     5    5   18.66   19.93
23.03
adm-tc1-i1-pos0-0.telia.net               0%     5    5   18.62   20.75
25.06
adm-bb1-pos0-3-1.telia.net                0%     5    5   18.39   19.87
21.59
ldn-bb1-pos1-1-0.telia.net                0%     5    5   26.21   27.48
29.15
ldn-bb2-pos0-0-0.telia.net                0%     5    5   27.02   29.90
39.11
nyk-bb2-pos2-3-0.telia.net                0%     5    5   98.56   99.58
100.94
nyk-i2-pos1-0.telia.net                   0%     5    5   98.34   99.39
100.74
p4-1-1-0.r04.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net     0%     5    5   98.63  100.44
104.39
p4-0.grouptelecom.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net    0%     5    5   98.81
100.31  104.25
GE3-0.WANA-MTRLPQ.IP.GROUPTELECOM.NET     0%     5    5  111.88  113.80
118.13
h216-18-72-146.gtconnect.net              0%     5    5  115.37  119.05
129.66
h216-18-114-66.gtconnect.net              0%     5    5  117.08  119.96
124.08
h66-201-212-225.gtconnect.net             0%     5    5  115.70  116.66
117.70
www.freenet6.net                          0%     4    5  117.37  123.78
134.17

There isn't a AAAA present for that host though ;(

Greets,
 Jeroen