Quake3World

A website that I have always accessed before, now for some reason does not load. I know the website is fine because I can access it via other PC's and a proxy but I wondered why I cannot load it on my unproxied PC.

It only started happening about a month ago. All that happens is after about a minute I get a message saying "document could not load". It does not matter what browser I use either.

Any ideas?


Cheers.

Pauly wrote:
Any ideas?


Cheers.

Do you know what document its trying to load? What site is it?

host file modified?

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:host file modified?

First thing I thought. Poke around in there and see if it's listed.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:host file modified?

Right. Where would I find this information?

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

open it up with notepad. it should look like this, which is unmodified:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

Oh well done son.

\o/

There is nothing of interest in there. Mine says the same as yours

Are you using DSL by chance?

Nope, cable

Sounds like you're being blocked by them.

You need to determine if a server is blocking you or if you have a DNS issue.

To see if it is a server block issue do this:
Open up a DOS prompt (Start-->Run-->cmd [ENTER]) and type tracert [address or domain name] and post the results here. Basically, we're trying to find out why it can't get to where it is.

If it is a DNS issue it won't resolve the name which you may want to query some nameservers using nslookup.

Open up a DOS prompt again and type nslookup and hit [ENTER]. It should open up a new command prompt which will look like this > .

From there enter this:
Set the server at the next > prompt type the hostname and hit enter.

Example:

If this Worldcom nameserver can't resolve it, odds are, the dns name no longer exits.

it could be that your isp's web-cache has problems. when you say after a minute or so, is that a minute of navigating around the site?

are you with ntl or a competent provider?