Craigslist outage

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Accessing from Southern California.

Cannot get any pages to view, except a few "about" pages.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/system-status.html

Status says runs good, but cannot pull up any city sites or the basic home page http://www.craigslist.org.

Anyone else having trouble or are you able to get in?

matthew black
information technology services
california state university, long beach

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Chicago loads, San Diego doesn't.
Interesting.

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www.craigslist.org, losangeles.craigslist.org and sfo.craigslist.org all ail.

matthew black
information technology services
california state university, long beach
562-985-5144

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Works fine from Long Island, NY.

I see that www.craigslist.org immediately loads geo.craigslist.org;
maybe the latter is broken? (From here, it subsequently loads
longisland.craigslist.org.)

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Thanks everyone for the updates.

It looks like www.craigslist.org redirects to the nearest geographical craigslist site. Mine redirects to losangeles.craigslist.org, which is down.

Is it possible that some high-volume internet caching centers have gone down?

matthew black
information technology services
california state university, long beach
562-985-5144

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losangeles.craigslist.org is working from here (Long Island, NY).

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Kind of supports my suspicion that a caching center (like Akamai) has gone down.

What does nslookup return for you? I get

losangeles.craigslist.org
208.82.238.129

DOS tracert finds that IP in 9 hops (20ms, 19ms, 19ms).

Possible routing problems for http traffic with Verizon FIOS?

The about page comes up

matthew black
information technology services
california state university, long beach

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IE diagnose connection problem suggests a firewall issue.

matthew black

information technology services

california state university, long beach

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Confirmed that it's Verizon FIOS. I remote logged into a system at work and had no trouble.

I'm dealing with tech support person that says "nobody blocks websites or changes routing tables." Big sigh.

Tech trying to get a supervisor and just came back with "he has another customer with the same problem."

Taking a deep breath.

Thanks all for your help!

matthew black
information technology services
california state university, long beach

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Confirmed that it's Verizon FIOS. I remote logged into a system at work
and had no trouble.

FiOS connection from here to losangeles.craigslist.org works.

What does nslookup return for you? I get
losangeles.craigslist.org
208.82.238.129

Same from here, but I don't use FiOS nameservers. dig +trace returns the same.

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Much documented here:
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-Internet/DNS-issues-in-SoCal/td-p/393781

The thread is titled "DNS", but just ignore and read through. I don't
understand how Verizon FiOS hasn't resolved this after two weeks.

Frank