Posting problems

[CDL.TO]

Try this and let me know if it works.

- Close all internet browser windows.
- In the windows "Run" box type "cmd" to open the command prompt.
- At the prompt type "ipconfig /flushdns"

 

[cassius]

The next time this happens (404 errors presumably?), go to Start -> Run -> 'cmd' (to get to DOS).

Type:
ping www.urbantoronto.ca <enter>

If you get 4 ping replies, then it's unlikely to be DNS related
If you get no replies (ie: request timed out), then type:
ping 207.210.105.96 <enter>

If you get 4 ping replies to this but not the other one, it's most definitely DNS-related. You can try using a different DNS server but some ISPs (rogers sometimes) block the usage of DNS servers that they don't own.

If you don't get any replies to either of these, it's a problem somewhere between you and urbantoronto.ca and is uncontrollable.

If you get 4 ping replies from both but still can't access www.urbantoronto.ca, then it's possibly browser-related.

This all assumes you're getting 404 page errors when you say you can't access urbantoronto.ca

 

[scarberiankhatru]

Thanks for the help, folks. It seems to be working fine from home now...whatever suddenly made the page inaccessible has reversed itself after 6 days, unless a mod fixed something. A few other websites were unavailable last week but have slowly returned, urbantoronto.ca being the last to return.

I think there were server problems somewhere beyond the Rogers system because, via traceroutes, I discovered the unavailable websites were all failing at some server in Atlanta, I believe. Rogers insisted there was nothing wrong but those servers are working fine now.