site unreachable: how to get it fixed?

[casaschi]

@licquorice maybe I eventually will... but as of now the site www.chessgames.com is still unreachable from my BT line. I can only get there relying on someone else's routing, such as using my Vodafone mobile, my private VPN or my corporate VPN.

I also thought there might be a DNS issue, maybe a propagation issue, however the domain resolves everywhere (also on the BT network) to 199.237.62.178 but the address is unreachable from the BT line.

[licquorice]

It was available, but now is throwing a certificate error again.

[licquorice]

Now available again but is HTTP not HTTPS.

[casaschi]

@licquorice interesting... are you saying that for a short time the www.chessgames.com site was available from a plain BT Broadband line, no VPN on top of that... just using the routing from BT?

[licquorice]

Correct, but it keeps coming and going.

[licquorice]

[Mooly]

I'm back on my W10 PC and now I get this:

[kingscrusher]

For some reason in the last few days I have not been able to access this popular website.

Also some people on Reddit mentioned it recently

The site https://ismywebsitedown.com/ for me thinks it is up:

According to us chessgames.com is Online!

Is there some issue routing to this particular website?

What would the resolution be?

[Mooly]

Have a look here:

https://community.bt.com/t5/Home-setup-Wi-Fi-network/site-unreachable-how-to-get-it-fixed/m-p/206635... 

[kingscrusher]

Hi there

People in the US have access to Chessgames.com - I have asked on the TCEC chess live - where over 500 people online right now at tcec-chess.com. Some say it is a bit slow for them but it does load. 

When I run a tracert chessgames.com i get:

Tracing route to chessgames.com [199.237.62.178]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

... (from hop 3) :

3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 213.120.178.141
4 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 213.120.177.98
5 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms 213.120.178.65
6 9 ms 8 ms 7 ms 217.41.168.107
7 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms acc1-te0-0-0-15.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.249.90]
8 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms core3-te0-9-0-18.faraday.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.249.33]
9 7 ms 7 ms 8 ms 166-49-209-132.gia.bt.net [166.49.209.132]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * ^C

Something is going badly wrong at hop 9 here

This is a major chess website - and chess has record popularity now worldwide.