Hi Darrell, I can not access your website, not even form your blogspot link or the link in RCW. Have you any idea what the problem may be? Yours is the only site I can't access. Some of your articles are inspiring and the others are great woodturning tips, especially for beginners like me, so I would love to be able to take a look at your site.
Thank you,
Tom
I'm not having any problems, Tom
It might have been Darrell's server down for mainenance. It's up now.
I see you are with ntl, so am I and I can't get into Darrel's site. If I log into a remote computer and then to the site I have no problems so it can't be my computer settings.
Myself and someone else had similar problems last year and we were both using Virgin Media. I asked for help on a Virgin newsgroup and was given advice which helped. You need to change the proxy setting in your internet options. I set it to "webcache.blueyonder.co.uk" on port 3128
I found that this helped but slowed down other web sites:-(
It was also recommended that I use OpenDNS which I tried but no longer use.
Duncan
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In message , pb writes
A slight correction. Your with Virgin (on the ridiculous) Media. :)
I used to be able to get to the site, but a few weeks back it stopped. I assumed that my dynamic IP had changed to one in a range that has been blocked ? Just waiting for it to change again and hopefully I will be able to access the site again.
If I go through an online proxy, slow but accessible.
I am also having problems accessing the site. I'm with Orange, is everyone who is having problems from the UK?. I have asked a couple of friends to access the site (unfortunately also on Orange), none of us can get to the site.
I'm hoping for a solution, somewhere - tried OpenDNS, no luck. Online proxy as said, was slow.
stuamn
In message , Darrell Feltmate writes
More info .
I can Traceroute through to your IP and pings take about 165ms, just no access
I can now access your site. The only thing that has changed at my end is the IP address. On previous attempts to access aroundthewoods I was on a 84.70.xx.xx and 84.66.xx.xx range of IP's. Today My IP address is 90.240.xx.xx. I can't be more exact with the IP address (the xx.xx) because I didn't write them down, I've been checking to see If I could get one which allowed access to your site.
Even after a quick browse, you have a fantastic site.
stuamn
In message , Darrell Feltmate writes
Sometime a web master may block a specific if due to the person at that IP linking direct , harvesting or causing other issues
They can do this in a number of ways IP
111.222.333.444 will block an individual user 111.222.333. a bigger group 111.222. An even bigger group 111. a massive groupOne possibility is that your host has seen a lot of P2P traffic coming from on of our IP's
111.222.333.444as these are dynamic the next day it may be from
111.222.333.555 and the day after 111.222.333.666so the approach to blocking would be everything
111.222.333which affects a lot more people than the cause
Personally I still cant get to your site, so patiently await my IP changing
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