Ok, so I have a LONG weekend because of Easter right? So off course I will do the usual Easter related stuff: have brunch with my family, watch some movies etc. etc. And – and this is something I was looking forward too – do some serious online gaming (Soldiers of Fortune 2 – still my favorite), download some music, movies etc… I even had some stuff in my queue to download (couple of movies etc..) So last night (actually this morning), I talked to my girlfriend until 4am. I wake up at 10am and decide to check my mail. Hmm, my Skype icon said: ‘connecting’ – not a good sign! And yes, wouldn’t you know it: my ADSL connection is dead! %@##^!%$ !!!!! Wtf! By looking at my log file I could see that my connection had been gone since 8:35am. That is the second time in some weeks now. And the really bad part: because it is a holiday weekend the whole fricking support department at Demon.nl has the weekend off! That’s right: if nobody notices this, it might be Tuesday before everything is up & running again! Now, I do have a little backdoor connection making it possible for me to dial-up via ISDN to XS4ALL.NL (the first Internet provider in the Netherlands) and off course I tried to see what was wrong, so I did a trace-route:
Traceroute zion.demon.nl
traceroute to zion.demon.nl (82.161.18.197), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets
1 124.ae0.xr1.d12.xs4all.net (194.109.21.1) 0.581 ms 0.409 ms 0.417 ms
2 0.so-6-0-0.xr1.sara.xs4all.net (194.109.5.2) 0.760 ms 0.699 ms 0.674 ms
3 ams-ix-sar-1.router.nl.demon.net (195.69.145.121) 1.013 ms 1.105 ms 1.043 ms
4 tc1-core-2-ae-1-0.router.nl.demon.net (82.161.255.41) 1.264 ms 1.559 ms 1.165 ms
5 bbned-10k-01-bbned-ic4.router.nl.demon.net (82.161.247.138) 1.012 ms 1.121 ms 1.042 ms
6 bbned-10k-01-bbned-ic4.router.nl.demon.net (82.161.247.138) 1.013 ms !N * *
7 *
8 *
9 *
10 *
11 *
12 *
13 *
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Yup, it looks like a dead router allright. Thats why I’m not getting my IP address. Off course pinging myself doesn’t work either…
PING zion.demon.nl (82.161.18.197): 56 data bytes
36 bytes from bbned-10k-01-bbned-ic4.router.nl.demon.net (82.161.247.138): Destination Net Unreachable
Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst
4 5 00 5400 ad2f 0 0000 3c 01 94a3 194.109.21.3 82.161.18.197
Great! Just what I need: Easter without Internet… Oh well, at least I can check my mail through dial-up…
Curse on you Demon!
*update:* at 11:45am my line came up again. Apparantly someone got of his ass at Demon and restarted something.