NTL's crazy routing...
so i've finally managed to get access to blogspot.com subdomains again (thanks to a ssh tunnel to a server on another network)! what follows is speculation based on the various reports on the internet (boards.ie; blogger's help group)... so it appears sometime in the past week (28feb / 01 mar), a change in NTL's routing policy has resulted in packets destined for blogspot IP space to be routed rather strangely (via various networks which are now owned by virgin)... |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | WinMTR statistics | | Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last | |------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------| | [removed] - 0 | 57 | 57 | 0 | 29 | 110 | 10 | | [removed].ntlworld.ie - 0 | ...