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Kathleen F. Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 11557 Location: NM Albuquerque
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject: Member can't access the site |
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I'm stymied. Ioanna, a valued contributor on the blog (has the book, don't know if she's a member here tho) can't access F-I. She's getting a network timeout error. She has no problem accessing any other site. If it matters, she lives in Crete. Eric asked her to ping the site. She said:
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hey I pinged but no dice.
it's weird cause it's the only site that I can't access!
also I connected directly to my dsl modem and not the router but still nothing.
IP Address: 192.168.3.100
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Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem could be? For now she's accessing the site via a proxy but I'd like to fix this problem for her or anyone else who may be having it. Ideas? |
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Esther Moderator

Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 1919 Location: ID Spudville
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Is it possible the government of Crete has some kind of internet filter or block like (maybe not as severe as) China? |
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Kathleen F. Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 11557 Location: NM Albuquerque
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Well I feel kind of dumb for posting the IPs she sent, those are internal, non-routing IPs. Duh. So we really don't know her IPs. She'll have to go to whatismyip.com. Since then, I've enlisted my host (canvasdreams.com); it is possible they have a block in place. CD is pretty aggressive. Do something dumb five times in a row and even I can't access my own site, it will not load. I have to go through a proxy just to see if the site is still live. That's just to prevent DOS attacks that strain network resources (server is 100% solar powered). I think its more likely the block is on this end rather than hers. She's never had trouble before and she's been around a long long time. Plus, she's not having a problem accessing any other sites on the web. |
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Danielle Luyten Guest
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 9:13 am Post subject: |
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I had a similar experience with a different website a year ago. I was using Kaspersky at that time. When I closed Kaspersky I had no trouble with that website.
Since I didn't want to live without Internet Security and already wasn't happy with Kaspersky before that happened, I changed my firewall and antivirus program. For me that solved the problem.
I guess she doesn't have to take such drastic steps. Maybe it can be solved with a change in her firewall settings.
Has she tried a different browser? If she is using Internet Explorer she might try Firefox to see if she has the same problem. That could maybe narrow down where the problem could be. |
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Kathleen F. Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 11557 Location: NM Albuquerque
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 10:39 am Post subject: |
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We just resolved the issue. I contacted my webhost, apparently they were getting a lot of hack attempts and so had banned incoming traffic to their servers from her area. |
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Danielle Luyten Guest
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Glad it was resolved. |
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heather Renewing Member

Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 203 Location: NY Manhasset
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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I just tried to post a comment to the blog and got this error message: 'spam filter has been set to not allow comments from users behind proxies'. Not sure what that means. |
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Kathleen F. Site Admin

Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 11557 Location: NM Albuquerque
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'm guessing you were trying to access the site from aol. AOL is one big proxy server. Try it from a regular browser. _________________ Please don't PM me, use the email button instead. |
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heather Renewing Member

Joined: 21 Aug 2008 Posts: 203 Location: NY Manhasset
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, love that AOL. Thanks Kathleen you were right! |
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