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> Below, I'm copying an email message I sent to the support and webmaster
> addresses for Bungie.net. Has anyone else encountered this issue that I'm
> seeing? Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Bloody Templar
>
> <begin paste>
>
> Hello! Thanks for building and maintaining such a fun tool in Bungie.net
> and its Halo 2 stat tracking capabilities! I'm having an issue using
> Bungie.net, and I'm seriously hoping I can get some help resolving this.
>
> Essentially, the issue is that I can't see Bungie.net from my connection
> at home. I had previously been using it everyday, then I took a 2-3 week
> hiatus, as my wife and I had our first child. Now I'm back on Halo 2, and
> I again want to use Bungie.net for stat tracking, but it appears that
> Bungie.net is invisible to me, like I'm being blocked on a firewall level
> somewhere. I can't ping it, can't connect to it on port 80, nothing,
> nada, zip. I KNOW I was able to connect to it before, though. So sometime
> in the past two or three weeks, I've lost my ability to see Bungie.net.
>
> My current IP address is <redacted for newsgroup>. If I tracert to
> Bungie.net, which my DNS server tells me is 64.4.59.143, it's all fine
> until hop 14, ten9-3.bay-osr-b.ntwk.msn.net (64.4.63.113), and then after
> that, it's all dropped packets. I've tried release/renewing on my router,
> but my ISP, Roadrunner, doesn't seem to be granting me a new IP address.
> That's not terribly unusual, as I've had the same IP address for months at
> a time before. According to my logs, my IP address just changed on
> Monday, but I have no way of knowing if I was having this issue before
> then. I get the same result from every system connected to my router, and
> there have been no recent hardware/software changes.
>
> I wonder if my RSS reader was making too many calls and an automated
> system got pissed off and blacklisted me (or worse, my whole subnet)? Or,
> more likely, if maybe some idiot who had this IP address before used it
> (either consciously or as a zombie) for spam?
>
> Any help you can give me in isolating this issue would be gratefully
> appreciated, but I realize that you guys have better things to do than
> deal with a single customer's connection issues. I am thankful for
> whatever you can do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Cam Soper

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> Can't get there either, about 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 22. 8-(

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> Below, I'm copying an email message I sent to the support and webmaster
> addresses for Bungie.net. Has anyone else encountered this issue that I'm
> seeing? Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Bloody Templar

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>
> 12:42 - East Coast - I can get there, as you would expect from the email,
> but at least it is some confirmation.
>
> I cannot ping it, though - ICMP could be ignored.
>
> For grins, can you temporarily try a dialup from home to see if it is IP
> related, since you should get another IP address (if your provider supports
> it).

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> Chris H. wrote:
>
> Glad to see it's not just me. Are you getting something similar when you
> do a tracert?
>
> Strange thing is, I can see it from work. I can't do a tracert from work,
> though, because our firewall blocks all ICMP traffic.

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> Below, I'm copying an email message I sent to the support and webmaster
> addresses for Bungie.net. Has anyone else encountered this issue that
> I'm seeing? Am I missing something obvious?

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>
> I've been in contact with Bungie, and they tell me they're not aware of
> an issue, but they'll yell at their datacenter people and see what
> happens. As of 4:30 CST, it's back up and working for me.