tracert ALTER.NET is back

[moomooprincess]

I ran this on AUgust 14, at 7:53 AM EST


Tracing route to 74.201.102.13 over a maximum of 30 hops



6 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.250]

7 13 ms 13 ms 16 ms cgcil04jt.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97]

8 12 ms 21 ms 21 ms 0.ae10.BR3.CHI13.ALTER.NET [204.255.168.165]

9 * * * Request timed out.

10 34 ms 35 ms 37 ms 0.xe-8-2-0.GW15.BOS4.ALTER.NET [152.63.24.34]

11 38 ms 36 ms 36 ms internap-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.134.214]

12 37 ms 35 ms 35 ms border1.te7-1-bbnet1.bsn003.pnap.net [63.251.128.43]

13 37 ms 35 ms 37 ms turbine-7.border1.bsn003.pnap.net [64.95.76.202]

14 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms 74.201.102.154

15 37 ms 37 ms 35 ms 74.201.102.13



Trace complete.


This will cause server is full messages.

This will cause the "The connection to the server has been lost!" message. Usually during a zone change.

This will cause you to not be able to log into your most played characters on the most played servers for some unknown reason. Probably to do with cache though.


server hop 9 could be this server, this is the line that is timing out.

0.ge-7-2-0.XL3.BOS4.ALTER.NET [152.63.5.182]


This is the same as I had last night.

[Fedora1]

Cordovan posted that the ISP was going to put the original routes back in place I think Sunday midnight. I had some problems early Monday morning, but that cleared up.

As long as the trace completes, it should be okay unless the times are overly long, and those all look under 37ms which is fine. The one hop that is not replying might simply be configured not to reply to ICMP requests, but the packets are still being passed (or the trace would not complete).

FYI those are routers, not servers.

[moomooprincess]

I am not sure where you are in this, but I have been affected by ALTER.NET the last two times it is appeared.

If you read my posts about it, my tracerts almost always complete, and I always get the zone change log out with the message;

"The connection to the server has been lost!"

This always occurs to me around 20 minutes into the game to 40 minutes into the game. If it happens again, it happens and not much I can do about it.

If Turbine decides to go back to ALTER.NET every four days with the same outcome for me, then I assume I am deemed as expendable, since I am in the small minority of players being affected in DDO, LoTRO, Asheron's Call, and Star Trek Online(not turbine) it is fine by me.

[HernandoCortez]

OMG, not again...


7 130 ms 129 ms 129 ms GigabitEthernet2-0-0.GW2.NYC1.ALTER.NET [208.214
.102.33]
8 203 ms 131 ms 134 ms 0.so-5-0-0.XL2.NYC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.22.134]
9 181 ms 137 ms 136 ms 0.so-7-1-0.XL4.BOS4.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.221]
10 136 ms 137 ms 137 ms 0.xe-11-2-0.GW15.BOS4.ALTER.NET [152.63.21.162]

11 140 ms 139 ms 139 ms internap-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.134.214]

12 139 ms 139 ms 140 ms border1.te7-1-bbnet1.bsn003.pnap.net [63.251.128
.43]
13 138 ms 140 ms 138 ms turbine-7.border1.bsn003.pnap.net [64.95.76.202]

14 139 ms 139 ms 139 ms 74.201.102.154
15 139 ms 139 ms 139 ms 74.201.102.13

This is at gf's place. Will test when I get back home...

[Fedora1]

Moomoo, I hope things work out. I don't think you are in the minority, it affected several of my characters last week. Here is the thread I mentioned:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...Routing-Issues

HC - wow those are long reply times. I was in-game this morning for about 30 minutes (5AM-5:30AM EST) with no issues. Won't be able to try again unitl about 6PM tonight.

[Cordovan]

I am not sure where you are in this, but I have been affected by ALTER.NET the last two times it is appeared.

If you read my posts about it, my tracerts almost always complete, and I always get the zone change log out with the message;

"The connection to the server has been lost!"

This always occurs to me around 20 minutes into the game to 40 minutes into the game. If it happens again, it happens and not much I can do about it.

If Turbine decides to go back to ALTER.NET every four days with the same outcome for me, then I assume I am deemed as expendable, since I am in the small minority of players being affected in DDO, LoTRO, Asheron's Call, and Star Trek Online(not turbine) it is fine by me.

Just to clarify, it would not be Turbine "deciding to go back to Alter.net", rather, it would be one of our service providers. The provider has indicated to us that whatever caused previous routing issues has been resolved, and they have reinstated their original routing. If we see system-wide issues like we did in the past, we will make a request to have them find a way to route around the affected areas.

[Burtle]

Well then, how do we FIX it?

This is getting monotonous and irritating... I mean we are ViP's after all and should have "priority access" to log in..or was that another wash of bull thrown our way to be suckered in by buying a game that has more defects than working parts?

[xPhoxhoundx]

Soooooooooo, after getting off the phone with Customer Support:

Turbine's official response to the "Server Full" is that it's my provider that's preventing me from connecting/staying connected to the server. I'm a time warner cable ISP customer..

For those of you who are not familiar with what this means, it means that apparently they can't even communicate with their own bloody ISP servers.

How is it MY fault that your VERY OWN ISP and game cant communicate with each other?

[Cordovan]

Well then, how do we FIX it?

This is getting monotonous and irritating... I mean we are ViP's after all and should have "priority access" to log in..or was that another wash of bull thrown our way to be suckered in by buying a game that has more defects than working parts?

Soooooooooo, after getting off the phone with Customer Support:

Turbine's official response to the "Server Full" is that it's my provider that's preventing me from connecting/staying connected to the server. I'm a time warner cable ISP customer..

For those of you who are not familiar with what this means, it means that apparently they can't even communicate with their own bloody ISP servers.

How is it MY fault that your VERY OWN ISP and game cant communicate with each other?

The "server is full" messaging that has been experienced in this past hour is a separate issue, and has now been corrected by us rebooting our log in servers.

[Burtle]

The "server is full" messaging that has been experienced in this past hour is a separate issue, and has now been corrected by us rebooting our log in servers.

well it's not just been in the past hour.. this has been happening for the past week... so if this was all that it took to fix it..why wait this long?

[xPhoxhoundx]

well it's not just been in the past hour.. this has been happening for the past week... so if this was all that it took to fix it..why wait this long?

Duh, they obviously want us to whine louder.

[Burtle]

Duh, they obviously want us to whine louder.

*really think they need an emote for *FACEPALM*....*

[Burtle]

now if they could only fix that blasted "chat log-in bug"...

[Artoo-Deetoo]

I got that message once.

Things happen sometimes.

Maybe you should V.I.P. your internet.

[toaftoaf]

I got that message once.

Things happen sometimes.

Maybe you should V.I.P. your internet.

then we would have to pay extra for access to .net stuff

[Fedora1]

Maybe you should V.I.P. your internet.

then we would have to pay extra for access to .net stuff

And what if the Internet expansion comes out? We would still have to buy that too.

[Tscheuss]

And what if the Internet expansion comes out? We would still have to buy that too.

Just pre-order IPv6.

[moomooprincess]

Tracing route to 74.201.102.13 over a maximum of 30 hops


6 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.250]

7 16 ms 12 ms 13 ms cgcil04jt.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97]

8 14 ms 16 ms 23 ms 0.ae10.BR3.CHI13.ALTER.NET [204.255.168.165]

9 * * * Request timed out.

10 35 ms 41 ms 39 ms 0.xe-8-2-0.GW15.BOS4.ALTER.NET [152.63.24.34]

11 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms internap-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.134.214]

12 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms border1.te7-1-bbnet1.bsn003.pnap.net [63.251.128.43]

13 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms turbine-7.border1.bsn003.pnap.net [64.95.76.202]

14 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms 74.201.102.154

15 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms 74.201.102.13



Trace complete.

For the record, no issues on August 14, 2013. But I am having issues on August 15, 2013.

[moomooprincess]

Moomoo, I hope things work out. I don't think you are in the minority, it affected several of my characters last week. Here is the thread I mentioned:

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...Routing-Issues

HC - wow those are long reply times. I was in-game this morning for about 30 minutes (5AM-5:30AM EST) with no issues. Won't be able to try again unitl about 6PM tonight.

Or somewhere down south of the equator I think.

[bsquishwizzy]

I got that message once.

Things happen sometimes.

Maybe you should V.I.P. your internet.

Then packet routes would suddenly be unavailable as they would have been labeled an "expansion."