i went to go traceroute myself, from one of my servers since i cant connect..so i logged in the server from *another* server and tracerouted my home IP.

look at this!

1 216.139.227.3 (216.139.227.3) 2.122 ms 0.516 ms 0.422 ms
2 500.POS3-1.GW3.PHX1.ALTER.NET (157.130.242.25) 0.481 ms 0.453 ms 0.427 ms
3 179.ATM3-0.XR2.LAX2.ALTER.NET (152.63.114.22) 11.343 ms 11.363 ms 11.466 ms
4 194.at-2-1-0.TR2.LAX9.ALTER.NET (152.63.112.162) 13.794 ms 13.246 ms 13.443 ms
5 131.ATM6-0.TR2.TOR2.ALTER.NET (152.63.7.118) 75.417 ms 75.064 ms 75.503 ms
6 298.ATM7-0.XR2.TOR2.ALTER.NET (152.63.128.61) 76.200 ms 75.986 ms 76.293 ms
7 300.ATM9-0-0.BB2.HAM1.ALTER.NET (152.63.132.245) 77.645 ms 77.633 ms 78.978 ms
8 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 78.284 ms 79.545 ms 79.305 ms
9 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 77.755 ms 78.143 ms 78.094 ms
10 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 78.634 ms 79.472 ms 79.537 ms
11 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 77.786 ms 77.857 ms 79.614 ms
12 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 79.784 ms 79.477 ms 81.801 ms
13 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 79.074 ms 77.887 ms 79.442 ms
14 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 79.777 ms 79.734 ms 79.773 ms
15 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 79.568 ms 78.960 ms 80.635 ms
16 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 80.633 ms 81.465 ms 79.822 ms
17 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 78.527 ms 79.677 ms 79.594 ms
18 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 79.382 ms 81.082 ms 79.673 ms
19 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 79.667 ms 80.266 ms 79.572 ms
20 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 80.011 ms 81.097 ms 83.102 ms
21 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 80.610 ms 79.685 ms 79.671 ms
22 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 81.260 ms 81.569 ms 80.423 ms
23 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 81.429 ms 80.261 ms 79.647 ms
24 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 82.063 ms 81.600 ms 83.186 ms
25 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 80.304 ms 81.827 ms 80.795 ms
26 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 80.524 ms 81.980 ms 82.771 ms
27 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 81.372 ms 79.803 ms 81.364 ms
28 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 81.685 ms 84.098 ms 81.537 ms
29 cogeco-gw.uunet.ca (209.167.168.65) 80.435 ms 80.708 ms 82.232 ms
30 209.167.168.66 (209.167.168.66) 82.496 ms 82.217 ms 81.170 ms

ROuting is not set up right on one of your upstream routers... contact your provider

Who is your provider?

UUnet? or maybe a UUnet VISP.

cogeco-gw.uunet.ca

Reminds me of cogentco :D
... Okay I didn't get much sleep last night.

cogeco = brother of cogentco.

Is he evil?