Pitry
November 12th, 2008, 03:54 AM
First thing, hello! *waves*
Second, I've encountered a weird problem. At some point on Saturday, a certain website I often go to stopped working, giving me instead a "connection timed out" message. At first I thought the website was down but after it went on for a couple of days I asked a friend to check and she said the website's working fine for her... at this point I started thinking the problem might be on my end.
It won't load both on Firefox and IE7. I have a router but when I bypassed it and connected straight to the modem it still didn't work. I also turned off the firewall, had no effect whatsoever.
I've run the Windows XP net diagnostics, it said it timed out to a specific ip, that turns out from ipconfig to be the same ip as my DNS server.
Lastly, I called the IT people from my ISP, they couldn't get the website to load either but kept on insisting the problem must be on my end...
I admit, I don't really know what a DNS server is, and I've no idea whether the IT people are right or whether their inability to load it as well means the problem is on my ISP's end... but I wasn't able to give them any other addresses that refused to work cos I didn't stumble on any other website like that.
So, my question is - if the problem is on my end how do I solve it, and if it's my ISP how do I explain to them the problem is on their end?...
Thanks!
Second, I've encountered a weird problem. At some point on Saturday, a certain website I often go to stopped working, giving me instead a "connection timed out" message. At first I thought the website was down but after it went on for a couple of days I asked a friend to check and she said the website's working fine for her... at this point I started thinking the problem might be on my end.
It won't load both on Firefox and IE7. I have a router but when I bypassed it and connected straight to the modem it still didn't work. I also turned off the firewall, had no effect whatsoever.
I've run the Windows XP net diagnostics, it said it timed out to a specific ip, that turns out from ipconfig to be the same ip as my DNS server.
Lastly, I called the IT people from my ISP, they couldn't get the website to load either but kept on insisting the problem must be on my end...
I admit, I don't really know what a DNS server is, and I've no idea whether the IT people are right or whether their inability to load it as well means the problem is on my ISP's end... but I wasn't able to give them any other addresses that refused to work cos I didn't stumble on any other website like that.
So, my question is - if the problem is on my end how do I solve it, and if it's my ISP how do I explain to them the problem is on their end?...
Thanks!