General Discussion

the routing works from your computer to upload and it does not to www.du.

Here's a highly simplified "diagram" of what you're dealing with:

Your computer.....

connects to....

Your Internet Service Provider.....

which routes your request for upload or www.du to a DNS server (the internet phone book).

Your request then gets sent over at least one and probably two or three networks to DU's network, which is dca.net. DU's servers are located within their facilities. To summarize, there can be problems all along that route. IMHO, people need to call their ISP's and ask why they are having trouble getting DU.

Here's the traceroute I just did (a sort of map from me to DU):



PS C:\Users\Steve> tracert www.democraticunderground.com

Tracing route to www.democraticunderground.com [216.158.28.195]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms ten0-0-0-7.orld38-ser1.bhn.net [72.31.194.148]
4 12 ms 11 ms 13 ms ten0-0-0-7.orld14-ser1.bhn.net [72.31.194.38]
5 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms 72-31-188-172.net.bhntampa.com [72.31.188.172]
6 13 ms 14 ms 10 ms 10.bu-ether15.orldfljo00w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.98]
7 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms bu-ether18.atlngamq47w-bcr01.tbone.rr.com [66.109.1.72]
8 19 ms 19 ms 20 ms ae-1-0.pr0.atl20.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.177]
9 21 ms 19 ms 21 ms 216.156.108.57.ptr.us.xo.net [216.156.108.57]
10 46 ms 46 ms 35 ms vb2002.rar3.washington-dc.us.xo.net [207.88.13.162]
11 34 ms 36 ms 37 ms ae0d0.mcr1.philadelphia-pa.us.xo.net [216.156.0.42]
12 35 ms 37 ms 36 ms 66.236.204.166.ptr.us.xo.net [66.236.204.166]
13 49 ms 37 ms 34 ms core-2-gig-vlan-500.hq.dca.net [216.158.2.5]
14 40 ms 37 ms 39 ms www.democraticunderground.com [216.158.28.195]

Trace complete.
PS C:\Users\Steve>

As you can see, my request went over several networks. Luckily, I had no problems.

Hope this helped a tad. Recursion, Aerows and others can explain this much more thoroughly than I can.

Steve