August 22, 2005:

Where is NorthAmericanMotoring?

Although MINI2 is my most frequently visited (MINI related) web site, NAM (NorthAmericanMotoring) comes nicely second - both sites specialise in different areas, at least from my perspective.
The NE regional forum on MINI2 is very active & fun, and most of the MINI events I go to are planned there.
NorthAmericanMotoring seems to focus more on performance mods (engine/suspension/etc) and also has some good discussions on upgrading stereo systems - more indepth than the similar discussions on MINI2.

But since the weekend, I have been unable to access NAM - it seems to be a routing or firewall problem within “theplanet” that hosts it:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert www.northamericanmotoring.com
Tracing route to www.northamericanmotoring.com [69.93.166.248] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 37 ms 14 ms 10 ms
…
6 21 ms 19 ms * unk-426d0e99.adelphiacom.net [66.109.14.153]
7 18 ms 19 ms * p1-00-00-00.a0.cdp00.adelphiacom.net [66.109.1.46]
8 25 ms 24 ms * p3-02-00-00.r0.nyc90.adelphiacom.net [66.109.1.21]
9 60 ms 65 ms 67 ms p3-02-00-00.c1.chi75.adelphiacom.net [66.109.0.101]
10 84 ms 83 ms 87 ms p3-01-01-00.c1.dfw91.adelphiacom.net [66.109.0.66]
11 85 ms 84 ms 84 ms g1-03-02-00.p0.dfw91.adelphiacom.net [66.109.3.78]
12 85 ms 99 ms 83 ms eq-dallas-1000M.theplanet.com [206.223.118.3]
13 133 ms 83 ms 88 ms dist-vlan31.dsr3-2.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30]
14 87 ms 86 ms 84 ms dist-vlan21.dsr1-1.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.127.67]
15 89 ms 85 ms 83 ms car4-1-v2.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.49]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
…
Trace complete.

I tried contacting “theplanet” and they very unhelpfully suggested I contact the website(!); luckily I was able to contact Mark Ferguson (who runs NAM) - he very quickly replied and confirmed that I am not the only person having issues and he also believes the problem is within “theplanet”.
So hopefully the issues will be identified and resolved soon; meantime I’ll have to check NAM from the office ;)

Posted by GBMINI at 09:54 pm | Uncategorized
Comments: 10 (post new comment)

  1. db (2005/08/22 @ 10:46 pm)

    hmmmm

    Here in SoCal on Comcast, I haven’t had any problems accessing it. Sounds strangely like a DNS issues to me. I really hate those. No, really :)

  2. GP (2005/08/23 @ 7:58 am)

    I’ve been trying to get to NAM for 3-4 days now and I’m getting nowhere.

  3. usaaus (2005/08/23 @ 8:05 am)

    I heven’t been able to get NAM for 4 days……

  4. CmdrVimes (2005/08/23 @ 2:06 pm)

    I’m having the same problem at home. I can still access NAM at work. I found a posting on a web server hosting forum saying that the folks at “theplanet” are aware of the problem and are working to resolve the problem.

    The problem is also not a DNS issue, it’s a screwed up router issue.

  5. Ian C. (2005/08/23 @ 7:17 pm)

    The issue is now resolved - for me at least. I think it should be fixed for everyone now … thanks to Mark Ferguson @ NAM for chasing it down and getting it sorted out.

  6. GP (2005/08/25 @ 8:42 pm)

    Problem disappeared and all was golden …. until a few hours ago, that is. Can’t connect again.

  7. Ian C. (2005/08/25 @ 9:31 pm)

    I am still OK accessing NAM from Adelphia here …

  8. GP (2005/08/25 @ 9:43 pm)

    Whatever or wherever the problem was, it is now gone; accessing NAM without a problem

  9. Ian C. (2005/08/25 @ 9:48 pm)

    GP: I mentioned your problem on the NAM thread and Mark replied: I had the problem reappear this afternoon after doing some maintenance on our server. It should be resolved now though

  10. Jock (2005/08/26 @ 5:59 am)

    with the number of people who have been thrown off this site for what I consider to be bogus reasons, added to the number of threads which have disappeared for similarly stupid reasons, plus the heavy handedness of a select few of the moderators, I don’t go to that site much anymore anyway, Jock

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