22 replies to this topic

[Beenthere]

Hi,

I cannot access www.besttechie.net

I'm lost and I will list out what I have tried so far:

1. Checked the router settings, everything is fine there
2. Tried clearing the cache, still can't access
3. Thought the problem is with my ISP but I asked another guy who has the same ISP as me, he could access the site
4. When I ping besttechie.net all packets are recieved
5. Here's the tracert log
6. Tried both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
7. When I put in the IP instead of the name of the site, I get this And when I click on any link, it doesn't work
8. I thought it might be something in the hosts file. So I opened it and found no traces of besttechie there. I also "disabled" the HOSTS file (I use both mvphosts and spybot's immunize function) but to no avail
9. With using a proxy site (www.hidemyass.com) I can access the web site
10. I'm 99% sure I'm clean of malware

[d4rkn1ght]

Hi Beenthere!

Odd odd odd.... your problem is strange indeed. Could you post what error message you get when you try to access besttechie.net?

Best Regards

[Beenthere]

http://i43.tinypic.com/65u06b.jpg

[Besttechie]

Hey Beenthere,

Do you use OpenDNS by chance?

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[Beenthere]

cool feature it says jeff is posting

[Beenthere]

oops faster

no i don't use, what is that?

[Beenthere]

Errm now that you mention it, I remember checking this opendns thing out... but I think I didn't configure my router to use their servers

[Beenthere]

Hmm for some strange reason I can access besttechie.net now
wohoo

and I couldnt access it for few days now...

[Besttechie]

Beenthere, on Jun 25 2009, 02:22 PM, said:

Hmm for some strange reason I can access besttechie.net now
wohoo

and I couldnt access it for few days now...

Did you have to use OpenDNS or no?

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[Beenthere]

Besttechie, on Jun 25 2009, 08:25 PM, said:

Did you have to use OpenDNS or no?

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Nope, I didn't change anything. Using OpenDNS = configuring my router with their servers right?

[Besttechie]

Beenthere, on Jun 25 2009, 02:28 PM, said:

Nope, I didn't change anything. Using OpenDNS = configuring my router with their servers right?

You don't have to do that necessarily to use OpenDNS, you can do it on a per computer basis through the networking settings.

Here are instructions on how to setup it up on a per computer basis on various operating systems: https://www.opendns....start/computer/

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[Beenthere]

I checked now on both my router and my local area connection. DNS servers are obtained automatically on both.

[Besttechie]

Beenthere, on Jun 25 2009, 02:34 PM, said:

I checked now on both my router and my local area connection. DNS servers are obtained automatically on both.

Ok. Well as long as you can access it now that's cool. I'm going to look into the issue. If it happens again, let me know.

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[Beenthere]

Sure no problems.

Thanks

[Beenthere]

Hmm now in the morning it happens again.. I can't access besttechie.net

if I enter http://188.40.40.140/ in my browser however, it loads the page like 50%... all the pictures are missing

[Beenthere]

This is very very weird... I tried again I couldn't access... after 20 seconds i tried again and I could access

what might be the problem?
I think it's my ISP..

[AdvancedSetup]

Actually quite common with hosting providers especially with sites on a shared plan. See it all the time where a site is offline/won't respond for a minute or two but if you go back a few minutes later it's fine. ISP tells you, nope nothing wrong, but if you have on full logging you can usually pickup in the logs where there are breaks in activity if the site is often busy.

[Besttechie]

AdvancedSetup, on Jun 26 2009, 03:49 PM, said:

Actually quite common with hosting providers especially with sites on a shared plan. See it all the time where a site is offline/won't respond for a minute or two but if you go back a few minutes later it's fine. ISP tells you, nope nothing wrong, but if you have on full logging you can usually pickup in the logs where there are breaks in activity if the site is often busy.

Problem is not shared hosting. I'm on a dedicated server - I haven't used a shared hosting company in years.

It's definitely not a problem with the server being overloaded if that's what you were implying (see the specs below):

Intel® Core™ i7-920 Quadcore incl. Hyper-Threading Technology
RAM 8 GB DDR3 RAM
Hard discs 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD (Software-RAID 1)
NIC 1 GBit OnBoard

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[Besttechie]

As for why this is occurring I'm not too sure (and it doesn't appear to be a very wide spread problem). I don't see any issues on my end but I will continue to look and monitor the situation.

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[MysteryFCM]

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