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can not access forum from my home pc ?!!

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Hi guys,
I got into a trouble here. I can not access devnetwork forum from my home !! I do not know why that is happening, but most of the times it says that "server is taking longer than expected time".Is it a problem for my pc only?Because I am accessing the forum from my office, and it is working fine. Is my internet connection haas to do something about it? I am really not happy with the thing that I can not access it from my PC.I want it to be accessed from home.So what do you people suggest?
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

Just noting I know two others with the same problem - not sure why but it seems more than an individual problem...
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Talk to your ISP
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I don't see how it could be a ISP problem if many users are expierencing the problem and it's only this website...
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shiznatix wrote:I don't see how it could be a ISP problem if many users are expierencing the problem and it's only this website...
I have the similar problems before. I had been told to wrong DNS servers to use. Most sites worked, but thee were a few that wouldn't.

Im certainly more likely to think it is something user/ISP end than anything we can do about it.

Also, they only know it is this website that is effected becuase it is one they use. I guess there will be other, but without going to every URL on the interent, you'd never know.
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Post by Benjamin »

I think it's the hosting (ISP's) provider. I have had problems accessing this site before as well. It wasn't a DNS issue and the site loaded fine from a proxy.
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agtlewis wrote:I think it's the hosting (ISP's) provider. I have had problems accessing this site before as well. It wasn't a DNS issue and the site loaded fine from a proxy.
It's possible that the name servers at IMHosted have been unavailable temporarily and your ISP's DNS servers have decided to wait 24 hours before querying the name again. I bet our TTL in the zone files is set to 24 hours... that would explain why it works from some places but not others. Basically if another DNS server had queried our domain within 24 hours of any DNS outage at IMHosted your ISP would still be using the cached IP address ;) Just a long-shot at what might be causing it.

Unfortunately we're not running our own DNS and our hosting comes from IMHosted.
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Post by feyd »

I would actually bet it's neither the ISP nor our host but instead Level3's fault.

Some history about what they've been doing:
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/10/07/147224.shtml
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid= ... =187&tid=4
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/10/28/1723250.shtml

The people who have problems may fall into the unknown gap between the providers mentiond.
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Post by Benjamin »

Well I am once again having to access the site from a proxy. It won't work on any of my local machines on any browser. I even tried changing my DNS server to a random server I found but still no go.

At this point I am inclined to recommend that further action be taken. It seems that others are having this issue as well, and it defeats the purpose of paying for web hosting when your web site is not available.
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It's not a problem with our server.
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Post by Benjamin »

Unless your blocking pings...

From Springfield Missouri...
[root@shadow ~]# ping devnetwork.net -c 5
PING devnetwork.net (63.247.70.254) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- devnetwork.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4008ms
From California...
[torrance]$ ping devnetwork.net -c 5
PING devnetwork.net (63.247.70.254) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- devnetwork.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms
From Texas...
[benjamin@ip-***-***-***-*** benjamin]$ ping devnetwork.net -c 5
PING devnetwork.net (63.247.70.254) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- devnetwork.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4036ms
EDIT I can connect with lynx from Texas and California but not from Missouri.
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Post by feyd »

The server doesn't block pings last I checked. Since the problem is specific to certain people, it's hard to say for sure, but my guess is you are getting blocked somewhere between where we cannot control.

Moving the server is not an option.
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feyd wrote:The server doesn't block pings last I checked. Since the problem is specific to certain people, it's hard to say for sure, but my guess is you are getting blocked somewhere between where we cannot control.

Moving the server is not an option.
Hmm... actually I think the server does block pings ;) It has when I've tried before.
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d11wtq wrote:Hmm... actually I think the server does block pings ;) It has when I've tried before.
Could have been a change by the host after the DDoS attacks we've had. At any rate, we don't control that.
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Post by Benjamin »

feyd wrote:
d11wtq wrote:Hmm... actually I think the server does block pings ;) It has when I've tried before.
Could have been a change by the host after the DDoS attacks we've had. At any rate, we don't control that.
Mebbe the host is blocking IP blocks due to DDos attacks to. I don't ever recall having this problem with any other web site... ever. Is not being able to move the site a financial issue?
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