Several zones consistently appear offline to me

[CDB-Man]

This has been going on for a few months now.  Several zones appear offline to me.  This is despite the Add/Update Zones window saying that the zones are online and populated (see screenshots).

 

Any idea why?

 

My Directory Servers are as follows:

sscentral.sscuservers.net auto.subdir.net auto.subdir.org ssdir.playsubspace.com sscentral.trenchwars.org ssdir.playsubspace.com

 

http://i.imgur.com/QXpZ2cs.png

http://i.imgur.com/MYQPW0B.png

 

[Cheese]

see the trace button?

try using it

[CDB-Man]

Tried that, and no trace.  Everything was off.   I think the problem might be Peerblock.  When it's on, I definitely can't connect to anything.  However... even when it's off, there's still no guarntee I can connect.... which is why I can;t say for sure it's Peerblock.

[Samapico]

I remember trying Peerblock, and it messed up Continuum badly, so I got rid of it...

[PoLiX]

Peerblock is honestly horrible as some of their lists block entire ISPs of servers. Their US Government one for instance blocks all Savvis servers iirc, and Savvis is a HUGE network provider. Read about a lot of issues with it on the steam forums, as they had a steam whitelist that is missing tons of server ips for various steam games. IE: CS:GO uses a few major clan ran/sponsored servers to support high traffic times.

[aquarius]

Remove all, use only ssdir.playsubspace.com and re-download zones list. Most zones are legit dead.