Having problems connecting to this forum?

dp · March 26th, 2009, 17:33

We have received reports that some people recently (since Saturday, March 21st) started having problems connecting to the forum from certain Internet providers.

The most likely reason for this problem is that our forum was moved to a new (faster) web server on March 21st, and your name servers have not yet refreshed their records. (Name servers are what translates a human readable address like LANDCFORUM.COM into a numeric address that the computers understand. If the name servers fail, you can't connect.)

If I'm right, your problem will fix itself eventually, but if it doesn't, those of you that still have to jump through some hoops to be able to connect should tell me about it here.

ugabooga_10 · March 30th, 2009, 14:07

yeah i have this problem
i have to go through hidemyass.com to get here
but it slows down the site when i use it
its very annoying

dp · March 30th, 2009, 19:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by ugabooga_10

yeah i have this problem
i have to go through hidemyass.com to get here
but it slows down the site when i use it
its very annoying

We are investigating this issue as we speak. The DNS theory I mentioned above seems to be false. You can verify this yourself by starting the command prompt (cmd) and typing tracert landcforum.com. If it lists a bunch of addresses, but stops after outputting several lines of "Request timed out", then you have the same problem as the other users that can't connect.

We don't yet know why our server rejects some of you, but we can tell you that we didn't mean for that to happen. No-one has intentionally been banned at that level.

I will post updates to this problem in this thread, so please check it out from time to time.

nishadh · March 31st, 2009, 06:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by dp

We are investigating this issue as we speak. The DNS theory I mentioned above seems to be false. You can verify this yourself by starting the command prompt (cmd) and typing tracert landcforum.com. If it lists a bunch of addresses, but stops after outputting several lines of "Request timed out", then you have the same problem as the other users that can't connect.

We don't yet know why our server rejects some of you, but we can tell you that we didn't mean for that to happen. No-one has intentionally been banned at that level.

I will post updates to this problem in this thread, so please check it out from time to time.

Hi dp,
I am now able to get in. Here is what happened- I bought the latest daisy clip from vidown.com. But i was not able to download it as it was hosted on amazonbitches.com. I figured it was the same problem as here and i found out that if i tracert both these sites i was getting stuck at that same point. So i sent that same tracert window to their tech support and he gave me this reply - "Try it again. Your IP address is in a previously unused range and was being blocked by a firewall rule."
So i guess it is the same problem for everyone. Now i m able to get in, but others might need to get their ips registered with them.

dp · March 31st, 2009, 08:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by nishadh

Hi dp,
I am now able to get in. Here is what happened- I bought the latest daisy clip from vidown.com. But i was not able to download it as it was hosted on amazonbitches.com. I figured it was the same problem as here and i found out that if i tracert both these sites i was getting stuck at that same point. So i sent that same tracert window to their tech support and he gave me this reply - "Try it again. Your IP address is in a previously unused range and was being blocked by a firewall rule."
So i guess it is the same problem for everyone. Now i m able to get in, but others might need to get their ips registered with them.

Thanks again nishadh! Every member with STANDARD membership or better has now been notified over email.

smallwm · March 31st, 2009, 21:05

Now I am able to access this great site. Lots up catching up tp do lol!

nishadh · April 1st, 2009, 11:20

ugabooga_10 · April 1st, 2009, 13:18

im not sure what uve done but everything seems to be working well now
thank you

see u in the forum

kly_lin · April 3rd, 2009, 11:02

yes, I have to use a proxy to browse this website, but it's not so fortunate when openning some free archive sharing websites like megaupload.com, I am blocked away from it.

dp · April 3rd, 2009, 13:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by kly_lin

yes, I have to use a proxy to browse this website, but it's not so fortunate when openning some free archive sharing websites like megaupload.com, I am blocked away from it.

You mean you had to use a proxy, right? You don't need one now?

March 26th, 2009, 17:33	#1
dp Administrator The VIP Gatekeeper Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3,034 : 0 For This Post 5,452 Total	Having problems connecting to this forum? We have received reports that some people recently (since Saturday, March 21st) started having problems connecting to the forum from certain Internet providers. The most likely reason for this problem is that our forum was moved to a new (faster) web server on March 21st, and your name servers have not yet refreshed their records. (Name servers are what translates a human readable address like LANDCFORUM.COM into a numeric address that the computers understand. If the name servers fail, you can't connect.) If I'm right, your problem will fix itself eventually, but if it doesn't, those of you that still have to jump through some hoops to be able to connect should tell me about it here.

March 30th, 2009, 14:07	#2
ugabooga_10 VIP Honored Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 130 : 0 For This Post 328 Total	yeah i have this problem i have to go through hidemyass.com to get here but it slows down the site when i use it its very annoying

March 31st, 2009, 21:05	#6
smallwm VIP Honored Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Oshawa Ontario Canada Posts: 230 : 0 For This Post 43 Total	Now I am able to access this great site. Lots up catching up tp do lol!

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April 1st, 2009, 13:18	#8
ugabooga_10 VIP Honored Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 130 : 0 For This Post 328 Total	im not sure what uve done but everything seems to be working well now thank you see u in the forum

April 3rd, 2009, 11:02	#9
kly_lin VIPOS Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 373 : 0 For This Post 1,959 Total	yes, I have to use a proxy to browse this website, but it's not so fortunate when openning some free archive sharing websites like megaupload.com, I am blocked away from it.