Around the woods website

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

One possibility is that your host has seen a lot of P2P traffic coming from on of our IP's

as these are dynamic the next day it may be from

so the approach to blocking would be everything

which affects a lot more people than the cause

Personally I still cant get to your site, so patiently await my IP changing