Friend Finder Down?????
 

Is Friendfinder.com down???

Can somebody tell me what is going on with friendfinder.com? For about a month now I have been unable to reach the site. I e-mailed the site and they seem to have no clue that the site might be having trouble.

Adultfriendfinder.com has been up but friendfinder.com continues to not be accessible.

I did some trace routes and here are a few of the results (looks like trouble???):

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To perform a traceroute from www.usc.edu,
enter the destination IP address or fully qualified hostname:


traceroute to friendfinder.com (209.185.12.47), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 v253-gw.usc.edu (128.125.253.254) 1.131 ms 0.442 ms 0.281 ms
2 v251-gw-19.usc.edu (128.125.251.155) 0.541 ms 5.352 ms 0.44 ms
3 130.152.181.129 (130.152.181.129) 1.025 ms 0.356 ms 0.26 ms
4 ge-9-3.a01.lsanca02.us.ra.verio.net (198.172.117.161) 0.635 ms 0.566 ms 0.647 ms
5 xe-1-0-0-4.r21.lsanca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.29.136) 0.601 ms 0.609 ms 0.641 ms
6 p16-7-0-0.r00.lsanca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.11) 0.736 ms 1.281 ms 4.939 ms
7 bpr1-so-6-0-0.LosAngeles.savvis.net (208.173.57.21) 0.896 ms 7.568 ms 0.857 ms
8 dcr1-ae0.LosAngeles.savvis.net (208.172.44.5) 2.214 ms dcr2-ae0.LosAngeles.savvis.net (208.172.44.129) 2.053 ms dcr1-ae0.LosAngeles.savvis.net (208.172.44.5) 1.941 ms
9 dcr1-loopback.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net (206.24.210.99) 13.288 ms 14.272 ms 13.234 ms
10 bhr1-pos-13-0.SantaClarasc5.savvis.net (208.172.147.110) 12.981 ms 12.832 ms 24.423 ms
11 csr3-ve242.SantaClarasc5.savvis.net (64.56.192.154) 14.513 ms 13.063 ms 12.914 ms
12 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 13.747 ms 13.415 ms *
13 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 14.53 ms * *
14 * * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 13.999 ms
15 * * *
16 * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 18.7 ms *
17 * * *
18 * * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 14.076 ms
19 * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 13.764 ms *
20 * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 14.109 ms *
21 * * *
22 * * *
23 * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 14.155 ms 28.097 ms
24 * * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 13.608 ms
25 * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 13.749 ms *
26 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 14.234 ms * *
27 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 13.795 ms * *
28 * * *
29 * * 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 13.822 ms
30 * * *

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Traceroute from www.slac.stanford.edu to 209.185.12.47 (friendfinder.com)

traceroute to e47.friendfinder.com (209.185.12.47): 3-30 hops, 38 byte packets
3 rtr-dmz1-ger.slac.stanford.edu (134.79.135.15) 0.464 ms (ttl=253)
4 192.68.191.146 (192.68.191.146) 0.520 ms (ttl=251!)
5 snv-pos-slac.es.net (134.55.209.1) 0.871 ms (ttl=250!)
6 paix-pa-snv.es.net (134.55.208.205) 1.18 ms (ttl=249!)
7 ces1-fastethernet6-2-0-412.PaloAltoPaix.savvis.net (206.24.240.201) 1.19 ms (ttl=248!)
8 dcr2-so-3-3-0.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net (208.172.147.93) 2.02 ms (ttl=247!)
9 bhr1-pos-13-0.SantaClarasc4.savvis.net (208.172.147.106) 4.22 ms (ttl=247)
10 csr3-ve241.SantaClarasc5.savvis.net (64.56.192.138) 4.29 ms (ttl=54!)
11 *
12 *
13 *
14 *
15 *
16 216.136.135.74 (216.136.135.74) 5.41 ms (ttl=245!) !U

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tracing path from www.net.princeton.edu to 209.185.12.47 ...

traceroute to 209.185.12.47 (209.185.12.47), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 gigagate1 (128.112.128.114) 0.500 ms 0.306 ms 0.343 ms
2 vgate1 (128.112.12.22) 0.321 ms 0.294 ms 0.353 ms
3 209.92.72.201 (209.92.72.201) 11.998 ms 5.941 ms 4.253 ms
4 165.113.8.66 (165.113.8.66) 6.642 ms 5.512 ms 6.542 ms
5 4.78.164.9 (4.78.164.9) 5.243 ms 3.692 ms 4.274 ms
6 ge-6-0-0.mp2.Philadelphia1.Level3.net (64.159.0.153) 3.856 ms 3.771 ms 3.197 ms
7 so-7-2-0.bbr2.NewYork1.Level3.net (209.247.8.66) 6.473 ms ae-0-0.bbr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.159.1.41) 6.110 ms so-7-2-0.bbr2.NewYork1.Level3.net (209.247.8.66) 4.860 ms
8 ge-6-0-0-55.gar3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.97.132) 6.469 ms ge-7-0-0-52.gar3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.97.36) 5.871 ms ge-6-0-0-55.gar3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.97.132) 5.424 ms
9 dcr6-so-6-1-0.NewYork.savvis.net (4.68.127.206) 5.291 ms 5.720 ms 5.768 ms
10 dcr1-loopback.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net (206.24.210.99) 81.181 ms 80.114 ms 82.403 ms
11 bhr1-pos-13-0.SantaClarasc5.savvis.net (208.172.147.110) 82.131 ms 83.705 ms 81.982 ms
12 csr4-ve242.SantaClarasc5.savvis.net (64.56.192.155) 82.601 ms 81.651 ms 82.948 ms
13 216.136.148.142 (216.136.148.142) 94.969 ms !X 93.824 ms !X *Done.

What does this mean? What should I tell friendfinder.com? They asked me for "more information" on the issue. How could they not know about this sort of trouble?

Seems to be working here

Up here and fast

Working for me too!

ditto ....

up here and slow as usual

try DSL.... dial up sucks :thumbsup

Well that is odd. I still can't get to the site and the traceroutes are from both the west coast and east coast and all three show something (right?)

This is very, very strange!

The tests and disgnostics to which I have access from home reveal no trouble.

Please contact me tomorrow to look deeper.

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I agree that dial up sucks . . . but I'm not sure that this opinion has any impact on the trace from Princeton, USC and Stanford to friendfinder.com.


Can?t anybody interpret these? It looks like a problem but I?m not sure how to read these. I know there are some ?techno-whiz-kids? that can tell exactly what is (and has been) going on with the friend finder site.

Thank you!

Using a firewall you can block traceroutes. They obviously have chosen to do so.

Some trace sites actually said that perhaps friend finder is blocking the traces or pings.

BUT, the fact remains that when I type friendfinder.com in my browser . . . the site never comes up and it has been this way for a month (or so) after many, many successful months of being able to access it.

Also, I have had many, many months as an affiliate. Now, not only can I not get there, but my affiliate traffic stopped too. I was sending pure type-in traffic that my host continues to see but friendfinder.com doesn't.

Isn't this very ODD!

What do you think might be going on?

looks like you got routing issues

working fine here :thumbsup

Thanks! I guess that would explain but I haven't changed anything at all when this problem started. The problem looks like it is mine because others are able to reach friend finder without problems, but the fact that my host still sees the traffic would lead me to believe that maybe friend finder is the one with routing issues . . . but clearly I know nothing.


I can also easily log into an adult friend finder affiliate account and see stats and all, but when I click the link (provided) to the friend finder stats . . . the page never comes up. This was something I was able to do successfully for a long time and over the last month (or so) friend finder and my affiliate stats are not accessible for me (and apparently my traffic from my domain name).

When I e-mailed friend finder, they told me to provide more information for them. I don't know what more I can provide (other than my recent problematic experiences).