What has happened to Misco?
03 March 2014, 10:36 PM
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What has happened to Misco?
Been trying to get to www.misco.co.uk for the past few (several) days and just been getting timeouts.
Tried a TRACERT from my PC, and also via http://network-tools.com/ but they both show that once you hit "*.alter.net" it all goes pear shaped?
Anyone any idea what is wrong?
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Tried a TRACERT from my PC, and also via http://network-tools.com/ but they both show that once you hit "*.alter.net" it all goes pear shaped?
Anyone any idea what is wrong?
mb
04 March 2014, 09:09 PM
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That is weird! 
I can understand it if my ISP has got a messed up DNS or routing thinkgumajig, but for a completely separate (source) web-site to also fail at around the same spot seems very worrying.
Thanks for checking, and if you do get a moment can you try entering "www.misco.co.uk" at http://network-tools.com/ to seem what comes up.
Cheers,
mb
p.s. I still can't see Misco
I can understand it if my ISP has got a messed up DNS or routing thinkgumajig, but for a completely separate (source) web-site to also fail at around the same spot seems very worrying.
Thanks for checking, and if you do get a moment can you try entering "www.misco.co.uk" at http://network-tools.com/ to seem what comes up.
Cheers,
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p.s. I still can't see Misco
04 March 2014, 10:02 PM
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I get this:
... which is odd, since the site itself loads perfectly OK.
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62.189.189.77 is from United Kingdom(UK) in region Western Europe TraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 62.189.189.77 [www.misco.co.uk] Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name 1 0 0 0 206.123.64.46 - 2 0 0 0 64.124.196.225 xe-4-2-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net 3 2 0 0 64.125.27.81 ae2.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net 4 5 5 5 64.125.21.138 ae3.cr2.iah1.us.above.net 5 73 35 39 64.125.28.49 ae6.cr2.dca2.us.above.net 6 41 67 41 64.125.26.106 ae4.cr2.lga5.us.above.net 7 41 41 41 64.125.29.37 ae1.cr1.lga5.us.above.net 8 105 105 105 64.125.21.206 ae3.mpr3.lhr3.uk.above.net 9 113 114 112 64.125.21.22 xe-5-2-0.mpr2.lhr3.uk.above.net 10 110 113 109 195.66.236.16 ge5-0.br1.lnd8.alter.net 11 116 142 114 158.43.188.97 ge-0-3-0.cr2.lnd8.alter.net 12 108 109 108 146.188.14.174 ge-1-1-0.xt2.lnd9.alter.net 13 105 106 106 158.43.150.102 xe-11-0-0.gw4.lnd9.alter.net 14 111 110 110 158.43.3.218 uuk203685.uk.customer.alter.net 15 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 16 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 17 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 18 Timed out Timed out Timed out - Trace aborted.
04 March 2014, 10:10 PM
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I get this:
... which is odd, since the site itself loads perfectly OK.
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62.189.189.77 is from United Kingdom(UK) in region Western Europe TraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 62.189.189.77 [www.misco.co.uk] Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name 1 0 0 0 206.123.64.46 - 2 0 0 0 64.124.196.225 xe-4-2-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net 3 2 0 0 64.125.27.81 ae2.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net 4 5 5 5 64.125.21.138 ae3.cr2.iah1.us.above.net 5 73 35 39 64.125.28.49 ae6.cr2.dca2.us.above.net 6 41 67 41 64.125.26.106 ae4.cr2.lga5.us.above.net 7 41 41 41 64.125.29.37 ae1.cr1.lga5.us.above.net 8 105 105 105 64.125.21.206 ae3.mpr3.lhr3.uk.above.net 9 113 114 112 64.125.21.22 xe-5-2-0.mpr2.lhr3.uk.above.net 10 110 113 109 195.66.236.16 ge5-0.br1.lnd8.alter.net 11 116 142 114 158.43.188.97 ge-0-3-0.cr2.lnd8.alter.net 12 108 109 108 146.188.14.174 ge-1-1-0.xt2.lnd9.alter.net 13 105 106 106 158.43.150.102 xe-11-0-0.gw4.lnd9.alter.net 14 111 110 110 158.43.3.218 uuk203685.uk.customer.alter.net 15 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 16 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 17 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 18 Timed out Timed out Timed out - Trace aborted.
Hopefully this is not "Merka" projecting its "business influence" on the ROTW
Cheers for checking
mb
04 March 2014, 10:11 PM
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Not really could just be blocking those UDP packets at the firewall, but saying that I get an access denied error when I try to visit the site. Looks foo*ed to me.
04 March 2014, 10:56 PM
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I can still get on the site, but the tool times out at the same place.
I've visited these pages at random
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q5985...in8-DVD-Laptop
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q6877...op-Notebook-PC
http://www.misco.co.uk/shop/brand/hp...randshops-_-hp
I've visited these pages at random
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q5985...in8-DVD-Laptop
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q6877...op-Notebook-PC
http://www.misco.co.uk/shop/brand/hp...randshops-_-hp
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05 March 2014, 09:00 PM
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As for direct access, it is strange that most others can get there, but just you and me (so far) can't. Maybe they (or their parent company) are struggling?
Cheers,
mb
05 March 2014, 11:26 PM
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I can finally access the website direct now but I cannot access any of your links above except the last one.
Very strange.
I tried a traceroute from a system in London and it gets blocked at the same point, so that must be a firewall.
Very strange.
I tried a traceroute from a system in London and it gets blocked at the same point, so that must be a firewall.
06 March 2014, 09:28 PM
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ISP is Demon, who have been bought by Vodafone.
Frustratingly i still get their (Misco) markeing e-mails, and they contain links to e.misco.eu/XYZZY (which works for the embedded images, but if you browse to them it fails in the same way).
But if you browse to e.misco.eu it redirects to https://policy5.responsys.net/permission.htm.
Sounds like some web-bod at Misco has fecked-up? Such is the world of corporate takeovers
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07 March 2014, 02:11 PM
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Sounds like an ISP filtering policy has gone awry. They are all doing a lot of work at the moment with filtering **** and torrents its not surprising there has been a mistake made.
07 March 2014, 03:09 PM
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I can still get on the site, but the tool times out at the same place.
I've visited these pages at random
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q5985...in8-DVD-Laptop
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q6877...op-Notebook-PC
http://www.misco.co.uk/shop/brand/hp...randshops-_-hp
I've visited these pages at random
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q5985...in8-DVD-Laptop
http://www.misco.co.uk/product/Q6877...op-Notebook-PC
http://www.misco.co.uk/shop/brand/hp...randshops-_-hp
http://track.webgains.com/click.html...in8-DVD-Laptop
07 March 2014, 09:03 PM
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If "what you see" is being manipulated by others (whether via the Interwebs, TV, radio or the press) then we really are entering dangerous times.
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07 March 2014, 09:08 PM
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those links go via a 3rd party webgains.com - probably doing analytics or something
http://track.webgains.com/click.html...in8-DVD-Laptop
http://track.webgains.com/click.html...in8-DVD-Laptop
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14 March 2014, 10:47 PM
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**** me - i can now get to http://www.misco.co.uk/ - with no changes "my side". 
Sadly the product that i was after is more expensive (actually it is unavailable, but the next-up equivalent costs more) so it looks like Systemax has a business model heading directly for the toilet
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Sadly the product that i was after is more expensive (actually it is unavailable, but the next-up equivalent costs more) so it looks like Systemax has a business model heading directly for the toilet
mb
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