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Tracing the route, I get 5 timeouts on unknown addresses while connecting to server-13-249-184-110.bos50.r.cloudfront.net (Boston) from Manchester NH. Bizarre.

Code:
tracert forums.anandtech.com

Tracing route to dra7275p949yj.cloudfront.net [13.249.184.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  RT-AX3000-FEB8 [192.168.50.1]
  2     7 ms     7 ms     8 ms  XX.XX.64.49
  3     7 ms     8 ms     8 ms  XX.XX.158.73
  4     8 ms     9 ms     8 ms  XX.XX.157.149
  5    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  be-65-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.85.69.165]
  6    11 ms    14 ms    11 ms  be-1003-pe02.onesummer.ma.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.173]
  7    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  66.208.228.190
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9    14 ms    15 ms    15 ms  150.222.71.79
10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
15    14 ms    14 ms    20 ms  server-13-249-184-110.bos50.r.cloudfront.net [13.249.184.110]

Trace complete.

Brilliant posts router's public address on an internet forum 🙄
 
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Off and on for the last several days has felt like the dial up days with how SLOW the site gets. 😵

I've received no time out error messages like in the past, but it seems to take forever for things to load.
 
Yeah, been bad again today. I've noticed a couple problems with other sites getting hung up on DNS servers.
 
Tracing the route, I get 5 timeouts on unknown addresses while connecting to server-13-249-184-110.bos50.r.cloudfront.net (Boston) from Manchester NH. Bizarre.

Code:
tracert forums.anandtech.com

Tracing route to dra7275p949yj.cloudfront.net [13.249.184.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  RT-AX3000-FEB8 [192.168.50.1]
  2     7 ms     7 ms     8 ms  XX.XX.64.49
  3     7 ms     8 ms     8 ms  XX.XX.158.73
  4     8 ms     9 ms     8 ms  XX.XX.157.149
  5    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  be-65-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.85.69.165]
  6    11 ms    14 ms    11 ms  be-1003-pe02.onesummer.ma.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.173]
  7    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  66.208.228.190
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9    14 ms    15 ms    15 ms  150.222.71.79
10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
15    14 ms    14 ms    20 ms  server-13-249-184-110.bos50.r.cloudfront.net [13.249.184.110]

Trace complete.

Brilliant posts router's public address on an internet forum 🙄
That is normal. Even trying to trace google will give you that. Some ISP routers, servers, and gateways are configured to not respond back to ICMP or traceroute messages/requests. This is an intended safety measure.
 
CloudFront CDN is owned by Amazon. And yes, the forum crawls now and then, and it happened 1 or 2 days ago again, showing the same error message above.
 
In all seriousness, the issue seems to resolve itself by the time anyone looks into it.
It seems when it's a longer issue, (days), will our overlords come out to fix it.

I have had it where a few hours of dragging goes on and suddenly it's fixed.
 
How do we report main site issues? Its been weeks and I'm consistently getting Error: The request could not be satisfied. 504 with a cloudfront error.
This error has been pretty consistent lately.
 
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