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Can't access DP on my desktop

ObamacareFail said:
Is your internet provider by any chance AT&T Uverse? I had a similar problem after a lightning storm cause my router to reboot. I had to change a setting in all of my browsers. Then everything was fine.
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No, I've got Time Warner.
 
AT&T has had some terrible latency issues over the last day or two. And OarNET a qwest hub was going bonkers yesterday and a bit the day before. Most of that has been routed around now.
 
Kobie said:
No, I've got Time Warner.
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Still it is likely going to be a browser issue. You can try clearing your cache in one of your browsers.
 
I'm on Time Warner and it's not fighting me, though I'm in California.

I know it was touched on, but if you go to a command prompt and "ping debatepolitics.com" do you get an IP address back? It should come back with something like 66.7.201.64. If it errors or gives a different number, that'll tell us a lot.
 
I'm also having issues.

I can access DP from 3G on my phone and on work computers but on my home wi-fi it just will not connect.
 
WillyPete said:
I'm on Time Warner and it's not fighting me, though I'm in California.

I know it was touched on, but if you go to a command prompt and "ping debatepolitics.com" do you get an IP address back? It should come back with something like 66.7.201.64. If it errors or gives a different number, that'll tell us a lot.
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That's the series of numbers I got, but then the request times out.
 
Lutherf said:
What kind of error message are you getting?

I'll have problems on occasion where I get a message that "server not found" for this site and some others but it's intermittent and occasional. Otherwise I haven't had any problems.
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That'd be either a DNS error or an Internet connection error, wouldn't it?
 
Kobie said:
That's the series of numbers I got, but then the request times out.
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Given the series of things that have been tried and failed, I have to admit I'm stumped.

I feel for you Kobie, it really sucks when you can't access the web sites that you want to when you want to. I just lived through the MI WOW DNS DDOS. The work around was to use the free and open Google DNS servers.

Best to luck to you man! I'm hoping some of the wizards around here are going to figure it out and we'll have you back!
 
eohrnberger said:
Given the series of things that have been tried and failed, I have to admit I'm stumped.

I feel for you Kobie, it really sucks when you can't access the web sites that you want to when you want to. I just lived through the MI WOW DNS DDOS. The work around was to use the free and open Google DNS servers.

Best to luck to you man! I'm hoping some of the wizards around here are going to figure it out and we'll have you back!
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I'm actually glad I'm not the only one having this problem, because that leads me to believe it's not entirely on my emd.
 
Jetboogieman said:
I'm also having issues.

I can access DP from 3G on my phone and on work computers but on my home wi-fi it just will not connect.
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Did this issue start with the update?
 
eohrnberger said:
That'd be either a DNS error or an Internet connection error, wouldn't it?
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For my problem I'm sure it's a DNS error but I get the impression that others are having a totally different problem.
 
Lutherf said:
For my problem I'm sure it's a DNS error but I get the impression that others are having a totally different problem.
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Yeah, I was responding just to you. Here are some alternative, free and open DNS servers you could try to narrow down the problem.

OpenDNS.com's DNS servers
208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220;

Google's public DNS servers:
8.8.8.8; 8.8.4.4;

If you have a WiFi router (and who doesn't these days), you'd either code these into that configuration (all PCs on the network would use the new DNS configuration), or just code it into one of your client PCs temporarily to see if the problem goes away.
 
Kobie said:
That's the series of numbers I got, but then the request times out.
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The timeout's normal, but we know it translating the address, so it's not DNS for you.

You've gotta a weird one, sir. I'd put it to the admins, and see if they need any other info to help track this thing. Surely a pattern will develop.

You could run a "tracert debatepolitics.com" and put the output here or send it to the admins. Might give us some ideas, though so much of that type of traffic is blocked these days, it might not give us anything.

I'd say you could call your ISP, but I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
 
I was able to access DP on my desktop through a proxy site, but that's the only way I can.
 
Kobie said:
I was able to access DP on my desktop through a proxy site, but that's the only way I can.
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That likely means your IP address is being blocked by the site.
 
Maybe youve been banned... ;)
 
PoS said:
Maybe youve been banned... ;)
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Bannings have certainly become rather passive aggressive here of late.

For the record I've already tried changing static DNS addresses (opendns, etc) and that does not do anything.
 
I've been told it's not an IP issue.

Any update on this?
 
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