Problem accessing a website

[Scottyboy]

Hello.

seem to be having difficulty accessing the following website/forum.  I tried flushdns rcently and it seemed to work. But now it doesnt load for me. Speaking to a friend who can access it still. Any ideas?

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?138736-Introducing-Server-side-Event-Logging-Blocking

[Simon]

Fine here.

[Scottyboy]

I know. I remember having an issue with dns servers or something once upon a time which prevented me accessing a website that I could previously. Cant think of any other reason for it not to work.

[Baz]

ok here too


have you tried  http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

[Simon]

Have you tried another browser, just to eliminate that?

[Scottyboy]

tried IE and Firefox. Both failing.

General browsing is ok.

very strange. I thought it may be dns related but I guess you guys can access eliminates that.

[Glenn]

It depends on what DNS they are using, have you tried another one?

[Scottyboy]

tried opendns and google public dns. Still no joy.
Tried flush dns again, tried turning avg off.  Going to try a restart of pc, and then restart of router.

Very strange.

[Glenn]

Do you have another pc to try it on?

[Scottyboy]

Do you have another pc to try it on?

Tried it on my ipad. Didnt work on that either. Thats on the same wifi network as my PC. Ive also just switched my pc to using the belkin powerline adapter I have rather than Wifi it runs on and still doesnt access it.

But as I typed this I tried pinging the main website and it got through and reloaded the forum via the main webpage and its sorted. So No idea what happened.

Thanks anyway guys.

[pctech]

I was just about to recommend clearing the DNS cache on your PC or Mac but if its affecting the iPad too it sounds router related.

Try changing DNS in your router to OpenDNS www.opendns.com


Failing that a router factory reset might be in order as I've had routers that have blocked sites at random do to a gremlin the firmware, a factory reset has often solved it for me.

It's fine here too but I should declare I'm on an ISP other than IDNet.

[Gary]

I should declare I'm on an ISP other than IDNet.

You are riding them, Mitch?

[Rik]

 

[Gary]

Great to see you, Rik 

[Scottyboy]

very strange. I cant access this site again!

Clearly I dont think this is Idnet related now. But why would it intermittently go down for just me? Got me baffled thats for sure.

If it is router related what possibly could be happening to prevent access to one website on random occasions?

[Gary]

very strange. I cant access this site again!

Clearly I dont think this is Idnet related now. But why would it intermittently go down for just me? Got me baffled thats for sure.

If it is router related what possibly could be happening to prevent access to one website on random occasions?

Have you tried pinging it directly from the router menu? Also what DNS are you using now?

[Rik]

Fine here...

[pctech]

Very funny Gary and terrific to see you Rik.

To elaborate on my suggestion I don't know what caused it and the ISP I was with at the time did various tests, even trying to connect from their own office ADSL with my userID and password to see if it was my RADIUS profile but to no avail.

It was a Netgear router (have always used them and continue to do so) which contain site blocking functionality (which wasn't on) so can only assume something went awry with the code and resetting it cured that.

[Scottyboy]

Have you tried pinging it directly from the router menu? Also what DNS are you using now?

Havent tried to ping from router yet. Shall do. But Ive just switched to opendns on the router and now I have access again. For now anyway.

[nowster]

A useful resource: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
or http://www.isup.me/