BT Proxy server is back

I have tried both the BT speedtest and the one from this site - both fail to work, I then discover that i am once again going through a proxy server.
The ip test on this site reports this:

You appear to be going though a proxy!


Proxy IP 217.41.217.** (217.41.217.**)

Your IP is reported as: 86.134.149.*** (host86-134-149-233.range86-134.btcentralplus.com)

I wonder if this is now a permanent thing?

Edit - the speed test only fails when selecting port 80!!!

Edit2 - just disconnected and reconnected and now no longer being proxied - ???

Edited by dapjukebox (Thu 21-Jun-07 11:12:01)

They seem to have been playing about with proxies for the past week or so. Yesterday I got a new IP after powering down overnight and the proxy had gone away. But it was back this morning on the same IP. Half an hour ago browsing was awful with long delays on some sites like yahoogroups and login problems on eBay. Now I notice it has gone away again and I am back to a speedy non-proxy service.

I have been trying to get an answer to what is going on through the broadband.support newsgroup but Support have not come up with an answer. I suspect this may well be related to the throttling issue and some of the figures being banded about are being confused by proxy delays.

Dave

Damn every single time I do a proxy test I don't have one!

I had this earlier as well with the same 217 addresses I tried every proxy test on the web nothing UNTIL I tried to download from rapidshare and it told me that my current address 217.xxx.xxx.xxx was already downloading a file and to try again!!!

What tools are you using or just lagado?

Either http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/aboutyou.ch (which gets upset if there are too many accesses from the proxy address) or http://whatsmyip.org/ - the latter will show an asterisk against your IP address if you are via a proxy and you can see the details by clicking on 'More info about me'.

The proxy has gone away here too at the moment....

Have a lookat TraceTcp

http://tracetcp.sourceforge.net/

Was looking for this the other day but forgot where I placed it.

Again done both tests and nothing perhaps take a screenshot and pop it onto photobucket or imageshack so we know what to look for. Certainly very interesting not had any warnings from rapidshare yet.

Just to say that since I posted earlier I have had a couple of very short dropouts on my mains supply here, and in each case when my router reconnected I had of course a different IP. First time I found I was via a proxy. Minutes later after the second one I was on a different IP range without a proxy for the moment. So it comes and goes and maybe some are never seeing it. It is in fact quite noticeable when you are on it with frequent stalling loading pages, not a nice experience...

Well if BT put me on it they will quickly know about it.

What are the IP addresses of each proxy you have discovered so far? I will have a dig around my documents and see if I still have the ones I found on file.

Found it! This was July last year when I was on this proxy/cache.

bn-cache1.ealing.mdip.bt.net [194.72.9.17]

Edited by deleted (Thu 21-Jun-07 16:38:04)

I have had several, not noted them all down but the following are some of them:

217.41.217.19
217.41.217.23
217.41.217.20

And it appears to be proxy server 1.1 PSBTTEST:3130 (squid/2.6.STABLE6.2.7-5)

The plot thjckens (no proxy still at the moment touch wood...)

Hmm none of them have DNS records like the cache I was put through, they also seem to all go to Kingston or around that area.

http://tracetcp.sourceforge.net/usage_proxy.html

Well, I've noticed all sort of problems over the last week or so, I can't publish pages from iWeb on my Mac as the proxies are screwing up the WebDAV connections.
That and all sorts of incorrect images showing up in webpages until I force a refresh.

Whats the best number to call to sort this out and get me off a proxied connection permanently, I don't want to be stuck on the phone to an overseas call center for hours

Frustratedly,
Tom

Edited by ink (Thu 21-Jun-07 22:01:50)

Why not start posting our geographical location. The proxy IP addresses provided earlier was located in Kingston somewhere.

Was going to suggest that.
By coincidence, Be have a north / south divide at the moment. More than the fair share of problems north of the Watford gap (high pings and latency), whereas those of us in London and the South East are OK
Kingston is a major BT network hub. Others are Reading, Ilford, Faraday, Milton Keynes. This is where the RAS's are
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/equip2.htm

Proxy: 217.41.217.22
I live in Camden. (NW1)

Was brushing up on that earlier by coincidence!

Also a quick whois on those IP addresses all show BT Midband for the ones I done... Never had midband but anybody care to comment if they had proxys on it? I know what midband was just never used the service.

The one I discovered last year has the description of "Frame Relay Customer Network".

Edited by deleted (Thu 21-Jun-07 23:26:55)

Again tracerouting it, it's last major network hub is Kingston.

For the record I am in Bracknell. I guess most of our traffic goes via Reading.

Since I acquired an 81.157... IP yesterday I have touch wood been clear of a proxy. The difference in browsing is very noticeable, all these proxy delays make a huge difference when they add up.

Wow guys, am I glad to find this post. Been searching all week for some common issues surrounding Squid proxy issues.

I noticed at the end of last week that the only website I access via an entry in my /Windows/System32/Drivers/Etc/Hosts file started to become unavailable occassionally. This week it has been permanently unavailable.

When in communication with BT via their online Broadband logging system they deny anything is happening with a proxy on their servers.

I very recently upgraded to Total Braodband (still awaiting hub) but wonder if they have changed my account type and now I am suffering from this issue that I have never had before.

I am based in Cornwall and have a BT router. If I switch it off and on again will it be allocated a new IP and may mean I get away from this issue?

Just to clarify, my symptoms are slow display of web pages and unable to access website that has an entry in my HOSTS file.

Many thanks in advance for any assistance with this.
Dave

You tired the proxy tests?
http://www.lagado.com/proxy-test
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/aboutyou.ch
http://whatsmyip.org/

May not be a proxy issue.

Thanks, I will check it out when I get home later but the error I receive when trying to access the site that is contained in my HOSTS file is:

The requested URL could not be retrieved..

Unable to determine IP address from host name... the cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the url...

Generated by PSBTTEST (squid/2.6.STABLE6.2.7-6)

I know this site/url still works as it did before as I have tried the same on a friends PC who is also a BT customer and he accesses it fine. I can also FTP to fine.

Cheers
Dave