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gumboot

10th July 2008, 11:46 PM

Hi everyone,

I have a question about a particular website:

http://nas-architecture.faa.gov/

This website contains information on the Federal Aviation Administration's National Airspace System - radar sites, ATC centers, and so forth.

I had been using this site earlier this year for some useful information, however now I find I am consistently incapable of accessing it.

I live in New Zealand and my ISP is WorldxChange:

http://www.wxc.co.nz/

I've asked the FAA but have no received a reply. Because I have no issues accessing other FAA sites (and other US sites full stop) I am doubtful that it is anything to do with my ISP.

Google has the site cached and it comes up fine if I do a search, but if I try to actually connect it times out every single time.

Theories include:

-The site is no longer there
-The site is experiencing long-term technical issues
-Access to the site has been restricted in some way

I was wondering if anyone could offer any ideas (perhaps some pilots hanging out around here?). If nothing else I suppose people could confirm if they are able to access the site themselves or not.

uk_dave

11th July 2008, 12:13 AM

Well, your link works for me via a UK ISP.... but maybe your problem is one of timing?....

The NAS Architecture website will be unavailable during the fixed maintenance windows
from 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EST on the 1st Friday following the 2nd Tuesday and the last Friday of each month.

six7s

11th July 2008, 10:56 PM

I'm in NZ too and the site does load for me, in Netscape9, IE6, Firefox3 and Opera9.5 on Windoze...

However, the site is not without it's problems:

http://www.faa.gov/Accessibility/index.htm
Page Not Found

The page you requested cannot be found.

ID: 2024378.

:rolleyes:

http://network-tools.com » nas-architecture.faa.gov (http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&host=nas-architecture.faa.gov)

204.108.7.26 is from United States(US) in region North America

TraceRoute to 204.108.7.26 [nas-architecture.faa.gov]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 11 5 5 72.249.0.65 -
2 7 6 7 8.9.232.73 ge-6-18.car1.dallas1.level3.net
3 15 10 7 4.68.19.204 ae-4-99.edge2.dallas3.level3.net
4 7 6 8 4.68.110.214 sprint-level3-te.dallas3.level3.net
5 7 15 16 144.232.20.82 sl-crs2-fw-0-15-3-0.sprintlink.net
6 45 45 47 144.232.19.103 sl-crs2-dc-0-8-5-0.sprintlink.net
7 49 47 46 144.232.15.18 sl-bb21-dc-4-0-0.sprintlink.net
8 45 45 52 144.232.15.9 sl-gw21-dc-15-0.sprintlink.net
9 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
10 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
11 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
12 Timed out Timed out Timed out -

Trace aborted.
:covereyes

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