Depeering may be why Tradme not contactable
February 24th, 2005 at 4:28 pm by David FarrarThe very popular trademe site is uncontactable for most people today.
According to discussion on the network operators group, this is probably because at 11 am today Telstra-Clear depeered from WIX (Wellington Internet exchange).
It is thought this has overloaded AT&T’s Wellington pipe, as much traffic has to go through them now, rather than directly.
Best people don’t keep trying the site. I’ll do an update when it seems problem has been fixed. And oh yeah this is one of the reasons why peering is a good idea – minimises traffic having to go via international circuits.
UPDATE: It may be a denial of service attack, not linked to the depeering. No confirmation yet.
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February 24th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
I am a TCL customer and quite a few .nz sites are having the same problem for me, so I doubt it’s a denial of service attack.
Vote:February 24th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Ah. The internet. Gotta love it. This morning, I had about 10 steps from me to trademe (we are on the wellington internet exchange here). Then, it went dead. Now it’s about 6.
Appears that TM’s fix is to Peer onto the WIX. Good idea, and they should have done it in the first place. If I come in from home (UBS via Orcon) it goes to Auckland, back down a previously slow ATT connection (not bad now tho) and into TM.
Strange. It works, tho, which will keep my TM-addicted wife happy
Vote:February 24th, 2005 at 9:25 pm
TradeMe has been peering on WIX well before today. However, your ISP might not have been so liberal in accepting the prefixes.
TCL are really blind if they think they can get away with a model where they charge the customers, and they charge the content providers, for the same piece of data.
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