Network Change... Notice any problems?

[StangFlyer]

Some people may have noticed some problems getting on the site today for a while. This was because today the entire hosting configuration/LAN/Farm was changed over to an entirely new set-up. Everything should be running smoothly now, but if you notice any issues let me know so I can see if it is on our end.

[joe4speed]

Moving VERY slow for me it seems... let me ping you, and I'll post the results

[joe4speed]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Lehman>ping forums.mustangworks.com

Pinging forums.mustangworks.com [65.31.67.107] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 65.31.67.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Lehman>

weird....

[joe4speed]

Trace route:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Lehman>tracert forums.mustangworks.com

Tracing route to forums.mustangworks.com [65.31.67.107]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 26 ms 26 ms 25 ms adsl-61-179-1.mia.bellsouth.net [208.61.179.1]
2 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 209.215.49.97
3 25 ms 26 ms 27 ms 209.215.49.46
4 38 ms 30 ms 29 ms axr00mia-1-3-1.bellsouth.net [65.83.237.10]
5 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms pxr00mia-0-0-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.16]
6 26 ms 28 ms 27 ms 500.so-2-0-0.GW8.MIA4.ALTER.NET [65.208.86.133]

7 27 ms 29 ms 27 ms 0.so-1-3-0.XL2.MIA4.ALTER.NET [152.63.84.122]
8 44 ms 44 ms 43 ms 0.so-0-0-0.TL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.106]
9 57 ms 56 ms 55 ms 0.so-7-0-0.TL2.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.146.42]
10 58 ms 59 ms 59 ms 0.so-7-0-0.XL2.DCA5.ALTER.NET [152.63.42.189]
11 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms 0.so-7-0-0.BR1.DCA5.ALTER.NET [152.63.43.177]
12 60 ms 60 ms 60 ms pop2-vie-P0-0.atdn.net [66.185.145.5]
13 61 ms 60 ms 60 ms bb2-vie-P9-3.atdn.net [66.185.139.130]
14 82 ms 82 ms 81 ms bb2-chi-P6-0.atdn.net [66.185.152.214]
15 81 ms 80 ms 82 ms pop2-chi-P1-0.atdn.net [66.185.148.67]
16 87 ms 87 ms 87 ms RR-DET.atdn.net [66.185.141.98]
17 87 ms 86 ms 87 ms gig0-0.lvnami1-rtr2.twmi.rr.com [24.169.224.26]

18 105 ms 90 ms 89 ms pos2-0.fmhlmi1-ubr2.twmi.rr.com [24.169.224.2]
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Lehman>

[StangFlyer]

Joe,

Our Proxy/Firewall system prevents anyone on the outside from pinging the internal servers on our web farm.

[joe4speed]

Well that's a good thing...mine too!

Anyways, now it's much better... earlier today it was real slow, but seems 90% better now!

[StangFlyer]

Yeah, things seem to have smoothed out a bit now. The switching equipment and proxy will "learn" the MAC addresses of all the machines and get more efficient at routing packets as time goes on...

This was a major changeover of the network and there will be further changes coming soon as the full capacity / implementation of a new data center that was built is brought online...