IRC Issues?

[SlidingHorn]

I can't seem to consistently connect to the IRC server. I use XChat, and it's working fine on freenode, oftc, etc. When I try to connect to the ECF server, I get the following:

* Looking up irc.e-cigarette-forum.com* Connecting to irc.e-cigarette-forum.com (71.19.144.177) port 6667...
* Connected. Now logging in...
* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Skipping host resolution (disabled by server administrator)

I was able to log in and chat once on Friday, but that's it.

I can't get a channel list, join #ecf manually, or anything else. Commands don't do anything, etc. Can anyone tell me why I can't seem to get in?

 

[classwife]

I'll try to hunt you down some help

 

[retired1]

SlidingHorn, I show you as logging in as recently as 2:51pm (Eastern Time). However, you're also getting ping timeouts which would indicate an Internet issue on your end.

 

[classwife]

nothing is showing as an issue on this side - I am on with XChat myself

 

[SlidingHorn]

It says connected, but stops. My connection is just fine...I have no problems on other servers. I've also tried shutting down any other network activity and trying just to be sure, same thing.

 

[retired1]

Do a traceroute to the IRC server and post the results please.

To do this, open a command prompt in Windows and type: tracert 71.19.144.177

Hi-light the text and right mouse click to select Copy.

 

[SlidingHorn]

Do a traceroute to the IRC server and post the results please.

To do this, open a command prompt in Windows and type: tracert 71.19.144.177

Hi-light the text and right mouse click to select Copy.

running on linux, but here's my output:

ryan@tesla:~$ traceroute 71.19.144.177
traceroute to 71.19.144.177 (71.19.144.177), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  cpe-76-190-160-1.neo.res.rr.com (76.190.160.1)  18.978 ms  19.003 ms  25.612 ms
 2  24.164.100.213 (24.164.100.213)  14.590 ms  14.625 ms  14.669 ms
 3  24.33.100.254 (24.33.100.254)  15.839 ms  15.883 ms  17.835 ms
 4  be14.clevohek-ccr03.midwest.rr.com (65.29.1.98)  17.928 ms  18.805 ms  18.849 ms
 5  be25.clevohek01r.midwest.rr.com (65.29.1.32)  16.887 ms  16.786 ms  16.828 ms
 6  107.14.19.58 (107.14.19.58)  27.306 ms  20.555 ms  20.575 ms
 7  ae-0-0.cr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.6.30)  25.831 ms  23.827 ms 107.14.17.178 (107.14.17.178)  24.251 ms
 8  ae1.pr1.dca10.tbone.rr.com (107.14.17.202)  21.449 ms  53.099 ms ae-4-0.a0.lax91.tbone.rr.com (66.109.1.113)  21.324 ms
 9  v413.core1.ash1.he.net (209.51.175.33)  30.010 ms  37.489 ms  56.760 ms
10  10ge11-1.core1.pao1.he.net (184.105.213.177)  93.091 ms  86.194 ms  83.489 ms
11  10ge3-4.core1.sjc1.he.net (72.52.92.114)  88.693 ms  88.735 ms  88.826 ms
12  connex-internet-services-inc.gigabitethernet4-4.core1.sjc1.he.net (64.71.184.42)  88.776 ms  86.726 ms  86.761 ms
13  warpedecf.xen.prgmr.com (71.19.144.177)  87.117 ms  87.394 ms  93.376 ms

 

[retired1]

Try using -I (capital I) please. That's a UDP trace. Need an ICMP trace. tracert -I 71.19.144.177 You may need to use sudo for that one (or run as root).

 

[SlidingHorn]

Try using -I (capital I) please. That's a UDP trace. Need an ICMP trace. tracert -I 71.19.144.177 You may need to use sudo for that one (or run as root).

Here you go:

ryan@tesla:~$ sudo traceroute -I 71.19.144.177[sudo] password for ryan: 
traceroute to 71.19.144.177 (71.19.144.177), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  cpe-76-190-160-1.neo.res.rr.com (76.190.160.1)  148.306 ms * *
 2  24.164.100.213 (24.164.100.213)  9.691 ms * *
 3  24.33.100.254 (24.33.100.254)  10.548 ms * *
 4  be14.clevohek-ccr03.midwest.rr.com (65.29.1.98)  12.188 ms  11.788 ms *
 5  be25.clevohek01r.midwest.rr.com (65.29.1.32)  19.487 ms * *
 6  107.14.19.58 (107.14.19.58)  27.246 ms  22.699 ms *
 7  107.14.17.178 (107.14.17.178)  23.678 ms *  22.621 ms
 8  ae0.pr1.dca10.tbone.rr.com (107.14.17.200)  17.474 ms  17.273 ms  19.102 ms
 9  v413.core1.ash1.he.net (209.51.175.33)  22.812 ms *  18.884 ms
10  10ge11-1.core1.pao1.he.net (184.105.213.177)  85.241 ms * *
11  10ge3-4.core1.sjc1.he.net (72.52.92.114)  96.347 ms  92.233 ms  99.704 ms
12  connex-internet-services-inc.gigabitethernet4-4.core1.sjc1.he.net (64.71.184.42)  84.837 ms  85.179 ms  101.291 ms
13  warpedecf.xen.prgmr.com (71.19.144.177)  103.832 ms  84.253 ms  85.404 ms

 

[retired1]

Ewwww. That's.... UGLY!

First hop shows high latency AND packet loss. And your packet loss continues down the line. Could very well explain the issues you're having staying connected to ECF's server.

I'd be contacting RoadRunner and forwarding that their Tier 2 folks.