Can't access some websites....

**WE_DELIVER** · September 17th, 2004, 04:48 PM

Well, it looks like my interweb is brokd....
Maybe you guys can help me out...
Suddenly, I have lost access to some sites such as suprnova and empornium
These sites are essential to my survival and thus....I am pissed off.
I have tried changing my ip, restarting the router, etc...
Can only seem to log on to those sites through proxy servers....
Funny thing is....some of the machines next to me can view the sites with no problems...
I am stumped...Please help me out...

**nukehella** · September 17th, 2004, 05:46 PM

Do you have any IP-blocking software?(Protowall,Peer Guardian,Safe Peer,or a firewall that loads IP blocklists?

**WE_DELIVER** · September 17th, 2004, 06:53 PM

nope....even disabled zonealarm....and you know that it will ask you if you want to block something or not....and I would never....ever say no to empornium..... :P

**Malakai1911** · September 17th, 2004, 07:41 PM

Next time you find a site you cant access, pop open a dos window (err, start -> run -> "cmd") a black box will open up. Then, type "tracert (website)" for example "tracert www.google.com". If it makes more than 2 hops, it's not your problem, its the problem of your ISP.

Otherwise, try deleting any HOSTS file you may have and try typing in "ipconfig /flushdns" at the command prompt.

**WE_DELIVER** · September 18th, 2004, 01:12 PM

ran tracert www.suprnova.org
and got this

Unable to resolve target system name www.suprnova.org.

and the only uncomented line that the hosts file contains is...

127.0.0.1 localhost

which, if I remember correctly was always there....

Any other ideas....?
This is starting to really piss me off...

**WE_DELIVER** · September 19th, 2004, 10:08 AM

come on .... :-(

No one has an answer to this.....booooooo!!!!

**method** · September 19th, 2004, 10:38 AM

Okay.. let's see if it's your DNS that's fux0r3d...

Try http://69.50.168.139/sn2//list_news.html - if it gets you to suprnova.. your DNS settings are screwed up somewhere.

If it doesn't... hmmm.. I'll try to think of something else.

**thongsai** · September 19th, 2004, 10:38 AM

have u deleted ur hosts file? do a search for 'hosts' in ur c:/windows

**method** · September 19th, 2004, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by thongsai

have u deleted ur hosts file? do a search for 'hosts' in ur c:/windows

I think he's answered that...

Originally Posted by WEDELIVER

and the only uncomented line that the hosts file contains is...
127.0.0.1 localhost

**WE_DELIVER** · September 19th, 2004, 01:17 PM

No method...it didn't work. I tried accessing it via IP only and nothing.
And yea...hosts file is all good. Pluss even then I could acess it via ip.
Let me know if you think of anything else and thanx for u'r help.
I'm gonna go kill myself now....

**MoonMan** · September 19th, 2004, 01:31 PM

Tried clearing your temporary internet files ?

**nasrules** · September 19th, 2004, 01:57 PM

Sounds to me like your ISP's gateway is fucked. Mine runs me through a goddam transparent cache server and I can't get to certain websites on certain cache servers.

**WE_DELIVER** · September 19th, 2004, 02:50 PM

Tried clearing the browser cache...not to mention tried Firefox and IE....tried to ping and tracert...nothing
Cant be ISP because other computers can access the site.....
Its not the admin because he checked his settings and I am cleared to do whatever with the internet I want....
....That is why I'm so puzzled.

**method** · September 19th, 2004, 03:07 PM

This is gonna sound crazy.. but Netscape (or a hacked/derivative version) might help identify the problem (even just as a temp. install). - I'm not suggesting you change browser.. just it might help find out where the problem is.

I found that I had a problem with comms for all programs about 6 months ago... everything that used the Windows API architecture for communications failed!!! - (All p2p apps, IExplorer and anything else using standard windows DLLs)

For some reason Netscape was the only internet app that worked and with that I managed to download an XP-install and re-installed windows.. (which was the way I finally fixed it!!) -- I could only put it down to Netscape using a different method for connecting that didn't rely on Windows DLLs/API as much as other apps (if at all?!)