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📣 ghoul2

Anyone else having trouble reaching HN from Airtel (India)?


I am unable to ping HN ip (209.216.230.240) from my Airtel Fiber connection today. If I switch to Jio from the same device, I can access it normally.

This is what the traceroute looks like:

  traceroute 209.216.230.240
  traceroute to 209.216.230.240 (209.216.230.240), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
   1  192.168.x.x (192.168.x.x)  5.703 ms  5.675 ms  5.642 ms <--- my LAN ip
   2  117.99.111.255 (117.99.111.255)  6.579 ms  6.509 ms  6.505 ms <--- Airtels' gateway
   3  125.19.45.213 (125.19.45.213)  6.475 ms 125.18.249.21 (125.18.249.21)  6.444 ms  6.414 ms
   4  182.79.243.31 (182.79.243.31)  235.655 ms 182.79.245.69 (182.79.245.69)  230.475 ms  230.412 ms
   5  * * *
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Everything else seems to be working normally.

  👤 chaoticfly Accepted Answer ✓
I am facing this issue and a bunch of work related vpn addresses. I am using a different ISP whose backend is Airtel.

Tracing route to news.ycombinator.com [209.216.230.240] over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     3 ms     2 ms     6 ms  10.x.x.x
  2     9 ms     4 ms     4 ms  10.x.x.x
  3     4 ms     9 ms     5 ms  10.x.x.x
  4    52 ms    51 ms    51 ms  nsg-static-185.1.78.182.airtel.in [182.78.1.185]
  5   250 ms   249 ms   250 ms  182.79.243.31
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.