(quick help) Can you ping this site for me?

[Morlan]

I am problmes with my web host. I am trying to use Macromedia Contribute to edit the site but it keeps timing out and crashing.

When I run a ping ping.exe www.mco.ie -t I recieve long pings several timeouts. The host says that there is nothing wrong with their webservers. I have tried pinging from my home broadband and the connection in work - I get the same problem.

I would appreciate if you could paste back your ping result and/or provide me with any reason why this might be happening.

Many thanks

C:\windows>ping.exe www.mco.ie -t

Pinging lithium.switchmedia.co.uk [217.205.162.200] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=53
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=207ms TTL=53
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=194ms TTL=53
Request timed out.
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=53
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=212ms TTL=53
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=53
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=53
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

 

[Pho]

Pinging lithium.switchmedia.co.uk [217.205.162.200] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=179ms TTL=51
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=239ms TTL=51
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=148ms TTL=51
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=228ms TTL=51
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=51
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=127ms TTL=51
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=143ms TTL=51
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=182ms TTL=51
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 217.205.162.200:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 8, Lost = 2 (20% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 127ms, Maximum = 239ms, Average = 176ms
Control-C

edit: ran two tracerts:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 27 ms 28 ms 27 ms l1.ar20.gs1.dsl.pipex.net [195.112.5.29]
3 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms ge-1-0-1-0.cr02.gs1.dsl.pipex.net [84.12.224.29]

4 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms pc9.cr05.tn5.bb.pipex.net [62.72.137.13]
5 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms ge1-0-0.er3.thlon.uk.easynet.net [195.66.224.43]

6 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms ge1-0-0.er3.bllon.uk.easynet.net [82.108.6.154]

7 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms ge0-0-0.er4.bllon.uk.easynet.net [212.135.12.34]

8 32 ms 27 ms 28 ms 212.135.12.46
9 36 ms 35 ms 36 ms ge1-3-0-0.br0.mimnc.uk.easynet.net [195.172.211.
125]
10 37 ms 37 ms 37 ms ge0-1-0-0.br1.enlpl.uk.easynet.net [82.108.6.61]

11 37 ms 37 ms 37 ms ge0-1.ar0.enlpl.uk.easynet.net [217.205.38.82]
12 42 ms 42 ms 43 ms cr0.lvcen.uk.easynet.net [82.108.10.103]
13 * 218 ms 180 ms 82.111.162.236
14 185 ms 182 ms 227 ms lithium.switchmedia.co.uk [217.205.162.200]

Trace complete.

The problem seems to be from 82.111.162.236?

 

[Adz]

Major packetloss both from our network in Redbus and from my office DSL. Your provider is probably under a DDoS attack or has a faulty or overloaded router/switch. Nothing much you can do except ride it out .

 

[Luke]

H:\>ping.exe www.mco.ie -t

Pinging lithium.switchmedia.co.uk [217.205.162.200] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=192ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=188ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=217ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=245ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=186ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=221ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=214ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=258ms TTL=47
Request timed out.
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=171ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=221ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=224ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=47
Request timed out.
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=211ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=181ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=132ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=226ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=194ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=47
Request timed out.
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=229ms TTL=47
Reply from 217.205.162.200: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 217.205.162.200:
Packets: Sent = 28, Received = 24, Lost = 4 (14% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 132ms, Maximum = 258ms, Average = 201ms

 

[Morlan]

This is great info guys, thanks for the help!