troubles accessing the server?

[Grogyan]

Hve you tried to physically remove power from your modem and do a power on reset?
I occasionally have to do this mine

[Aloys]

Yes (should have mentionned that), no change.

[Nadnerb]

Can the forum software block IP addresses in such a way that it wouldn't respond to a request, period?

[Aloys]

I'm sorry to bump this self-centered topic again, but this just happened again, forbidding me to access the forum for most of those last 48 hours..
As suggested I did a traceroute and just compared it to the 'normal' tracert log and they are the same..
So at this point I really tried everything I could think of, I even asked my ISP's tech support (which was of no use at all ) and that thing keeps happenning.. There must be a reason, but I'm not enough of a network specialist to give out a diagnosis here.

Would anyone know of someone (preferably in our community) that could help me with this?

Can the forum software block IP addresses in such a way that it wouldn't respond to a request, period?

I don't see why the forum would block my IP address (I'm on a fixed IP though, so it's easier to block), beside when it happens I can't access anything on the domain name (forum/site/wiki).

[T_S_Kimball]

I used to have this problem with GoG's site and Shard; They'd be 100% unreachable for 1-2 days at a time - usually at the worst times ever.

Turned out that DNS was not propagating correctly from the cable ISP (yes they would not admit to anything either, despite my immediate escalation to someone who at least knew what I was talking about - don't mess with an old-style UNIX Admin ). This may have been due to the somewhat draconian nature I set my hardware firewalls, but when GoG moved to another hoster the problem suddenly went away. *shrug*

The temporary fix was to discover what IP address the site(s) are linked to, and set the PC's host table manually. Location (open /w Notepad):

C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Give that a shot?

--TSK

[Chacal]

Aloys, try finding a good public DNS server for you (using google), then set your TCP/IP parameters manually and use it as your DNS server.
I was having a similar problem and it worked.

[Aloys]

Aaaand that just happened again..
That whole 24/48 hours period of blackout indeed sounds a lot like a DNS propagation problem..

I used to have this problem with GoG's site and Shard; They'd be 100% unreachable for 1-2 days at a time - usually at the worst times ever. (...) but when GoG moved to another hoster the problem suddenly went away. *shrug*

There's my solution: switch this site to a new host! I'll pass that ideas to the admin :p

The temporary fix was to discover what IP address the site(s) are linked to, and set the PC's host table manually.

Good idea, I'll give it a shot.

[quote=Chacal]finding a good public DNS server for you (using google), then set your TCP/IP parameters manually and use it as your DNS server.[/quote]I've never done that, so I'm not sure how to do it, but that doesn't sound too hard, I'll have a look at it.

Thanks for those tips. I'd really like to get this fixed.