On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Tom Limoncelli wrote:

> Generally when I see "Host Unreachable" I think it is a routing
> problem or (if they are on the same LAN segment) a broken cable /
> disabled interface.
>
> If the system works by hijacking port 80, then ping and traceroute
> can't really help you.  However, you can at least connect to port 80
> via telnet.  Type "GET /" and press RETURN twice:
>
> $ telnet whatexit.org 80
> Trying 2607:f2f8:a9c0::2...
> Connected to whatexit.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>

Or, if it's a name-based server setup,

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: your.webhost
<return>
<return>

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