Suspicious Activity - Virgin Media

Right, through online support, virgin media are stating this:

Time Stamp 10/09/2009 20:13
Priority P1
Status Opened
Department Outage Surveillence Team
Estimated Time Fix 4 Hours
Customers Affected Broadband Internet
Raised By Carl McKeown
Postcode Areas
Placename
Detailed Description

Customers Nationally may be unable to access US hosted websites (e.g. facebook.com / hotmail.com).
Our engineers are currently investigating this issue.
Virgin Media would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Virgin Media Technical Support



This is true, i cant access many sites like facebook and many other sites take ages to load whilst others dont load at all.

However, i can access facebook instantly through a proxy, this suggests that just our uk IP's are prevented from accessing facebook????

Whats going on?

DNS problem seems to be the likely cause. Go check Cable Forum and see what issues are being raised there in your area.

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meh the stupid thing has just sorted itself out, no fair, i wanted to make a conspiricy theory

lol facebook has been running slow for me today but im not on Virgin im on Sky

You really think Virgin Media are competent enough to take part in a conspiracy? They'd somehow manage to screw it up.

DJSKYLINE Wrote:
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> This is true, i cant access many sites like
> facebook and many other sites take ages to load
> whilst others dont load at all.
>
> However, i can access facebook instantly through a
> proxy, this suggests that just our uk IP's are
> prevented from accessing facebook????
>
> Whats going on?


Oh noes! No facebook? I really do wish that would happen. The world would well and truly be a better place.


The Flanker is gone.

smorr Wrote:
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> DJSKYLINE Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > This is true, i cant access many sites like
> > facebook and many other sites take ages to load
> > whilst others dont load at all.
> >
> > However, i can access facebook instantly through
> a
> > proxy, this suggests that just our uk IP's are
> > prevented from accessing facebook????
> >
> > Whats going on?
>
>
> Oh noes! No facebook? I really do wish that would
> happen. The world would well and truly be a better
> place.


facebook was an example they used along with hotmail. I coldnt access various sites like ebay.com or play steamgames which is updated via a USA server.

DJSKYLINE Wrote:
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> Right, through online support, virgin media are
> stating this:
>
> Time Stamp 10/09/2009 20:13
> Priority P1
> Status Opened
> Department Outage Surveillence Team
> Estimated Time Fix 4 Hours
> Customers Affected Broadband Internet
> Raised By Carl McKeown
> Postcode Areas
> Placename
> Detailed Description
>
> Customers Nationally may be unable to access US
> hosted websites (e.g. facebook.com /
> hotmail.com).
> Our engineers are currently investigating this
> issue.
> Virgin Media would like to apologise for any
> inconvenience caused.
> Virgin Media Technical Support
>
>
>
> This is true, i cant access many sites like
> facebook and many other sites take ages to load
> whilst others dont load at all.
>
> However, i can access facebook instantly through a
> proxy, this suggests that just our uk IP's are
> prevented from accessing facebook????
>
> Whats going on?

Almost certainly just a routeing issue - the ISP i used to work for had problems like this every now and then.

Most ISPs have their own peering arrangements between their networks and others, which results in different routes into the US. If they lost a peering link, you'd probably find that a proxy works because the route is different.

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However, i can access facebook instantly through a proxy, this suggests that just our uk IP's are prevented from accessing facebook????

No, it suggests you don't understand how a proxy works, lol.

It's a Virgin issue connecting to US sites. Nothing more.

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DaveEllis Wrote:
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> However, i can access facebook instantly through a
> proxy, this suggests that just our uk IP's are
> prevented from accessing facebook????
>
> No, it suggests you don't understand how a proxy
> works, lol.
>
> It's a Virgin issue connecting to US sites.
> Nothing more.

lol sorry i dont know why i wrote that. I used a site to hide my ip





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2009 08:59PM by DJSKYLINE.

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