rycanada's endless connection saga

[Olaf the Stout]

I feel your pain. I still can't access EN World from my parent's house. Thankfully the problem has been fixed enough that I can access it from dial-up at home. If we switch to broadband (as we intend to do soon) I will have access problems again though. Hopefully the issue resolves itself in the meantime but I'm not holding my breath.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Ry]

Can someone recommend a free proxy that supports cookies and isn't terribly slow? (hopefully something North America East Coast based). I'm using bypasser.info right now and it's pretty brutal.

 

[Ry]

Stupid brutally-slow free proxies. Two weeks later this is just torture.

 

[IronWolf]

Well, from your tracert it shows your computer can get to the server - though from what you have posted all browsers appear to be having issues. In your tracert though you did it to enworld.org, your browser errors show you were trying to go to www.enworld.org.

Can you try these two things and report back?

First, tracert to www.enworld.org (i.e. 'tracert www.enworld.org')

Second, in the browser of your choice try going to:

http://enworld.org

Post back with those results.

 

[Ry]

Tracert www.enworld.org



Tracing route to www.enworld.org [65.127.163.19]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1

2 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.104.188.1

3 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms gw03.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.90.97]

4 12 ms 9 ms 10 ms gw02.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.83.105]

5 8 ms 9 ms 10 ms gw02.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.80.162]

6 11 ms 12 ms 10 ms 64.71.240.110

7 29 ms 30 ms 28 ms pos-1-0.igw01.ny8th.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.81.13]

8 29 ms 31 ms 29 ms if-8-0.core1.NTO-NewYork.teleglobe.net [216.6.82.33]

9 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms 216.6.97.13

10 27 ms 31 ms 24 ms 216.6.97.42

11 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms ix-4-0-3.mcore3.NYY-NewYork.teleglobe.net [216.6.81.2]

12 31 ms 34 ms 29 ms jfk-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.230.22]

13 58 ms 58 ms 57 ms tpa-core-01.inet.qwest.net [67.14.3.2]

14 62 ms 63 ms 64 ms nap-edge-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.27.50]

15 69 ms 69 ms 66 ms 65.124.198.234

16 70 ms 67 ms 68 ms 63-144-217-198.cust.neotechus.com [63.144.217.198]

17 146 ms 77 ms 69 ms rcarter.cyberstreet.com [65.127.163.19]



Trace complete.







And... Opera message:

Error!
Could not connect to remote server

You tried to access the address http://enworld.org/, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
Make sure your Internet connection is active and check whether other applications that rely on the same connection are working.
Check that the setup of any Internet security software is correct and does not interfere with ordinary Web browsing.
If you are behind a firewall on a Local Area Network and think this may be causing problems, talk to your systems administrator.
Try pressing the F12 key on your keyboard and disabling proxy servers, unless you know that you are required to use a proxy to connect to the Internet. Reload the page.
Need help?
Open the Opera Help.
Go to Opera's on-line support desk.

 

[Ry]

I just want to interject that I really appreciate people trying to help me out.

 

[Keith Robinson]

Have you tried just the ip address:

http://65.127.163.19/

That takes me to the enworld home page. Maybe it's some wierd dns issue? At least it's something else you can dismiss if it doesn't work.

 

[Ry]

Yep. Tried that a while ago. Can Ping it directly too.

 

[IronWolf]

HHhmmmm, not quite certain what is going on. You can tracert to the site using both names, but none of your browsers work... Two more ides.

- Confirm that your browser(s) is/are *not* using a proxy server that you aren't expecting them to. I know you are using a proxy to bypass your issue, but on one of the browsers check its proxy settings and make sure it isn't using a proxy and that there is nothing under the Advanced settings for the setup of the proxy.

- I assume you are going through a home router to the Internet? If so, make sure no one is playing a joke on you and has restricted access there that is preventing access.

Oh, and one more thing. From a command prompt, do an ipconfig /all and list what your DNS servers are. Then, from the same command prompt do an nslookup www.enworld.org.

The nslookup will return both the server used to lookup the name and the IP of the name returned. I am curious about both pieces of information.

 

[Ry]

I've tried with and without router... no proxy servers being used in my browser (I use bypasser.info which is proxy in a webpage).

Here's the NSLookup.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan Stoughton>nslookup www.enworld.org
Server: dns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com
Address: 64.71.255.198

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to dns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com timed-out

C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan Stoughton>

C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan Stoughton>