Need advice from the pro's on here

[youradsl]

I have a couple of websites hosted in the UK. Let's use *edit* for example.

Since this morning I can't connect to any one of them using ADSL or 3G (http, email and ftp, all down). I can connect to all other international websites.
Our office in the UK, Spain and Morocco connects fine to the webs that are down for me, so it seems to be a DNS caching problem on my end.

When I go to proxify.com and type in *edit* it works fine, so the websites seems to be up and running just fine.

Any idea what I can do regarding this situation?

Thx
J

 

[Frikkenator]

I can't open it either...

 

[Gatecrasher]

Try a static DNS server, like SAIX's 196.25.1.1, as an interim measure, until your ISP's DNS server comes right.

Or you can also enter mission critical ip addresses into your HOSTS file in Windows. Then you will never be reliant on DNS servers for those specific addresses.

 

[youradsl]

Thx Gatecrasher

"Or you can also enter mission critical ip addresses into your HOSTS file in Windows."

How do I do this?

 

[Gatecrasher]

It depends on your operating system. Assuming it is XP then

You can find the hosts file in Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc.

It is a text file but has no extension.

Just open it in notepad and enter the ip address followed by the domain name.

It should look something like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx www.placesinsa.com
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx zaware.com

Then save the file.

Obviously you need to know the correct ip addresses to do this.

 

[youradsl]

Thx again for the time Gatecrasher. It's still not working though. Telkom is of no help at all with this problem, as expected.

Anyone else have some ideas?

Thx
J

 

[xdsluser]

Is this what i am supposed to see "Our website are currently undergoing planned maintenance, and will be ready soon"

 

[youradsl]

Is this what i am supposed to see "Our website are currently undergoing planned maintenance, and will be ready soon"

Hi xdsluser,

Yes for that website, that's what you are suppose to see. Any advise on the issue?

Thx
J

 

[gregmcc]

Only enter those IP addresses in yout hosts file is they are static IP's. If it still doesn't work after entering the hosts file then its not a DNS issue. Maybe a peering link problem or something. Try a traceroute and see where it gets stuck - not a reliable solution as many isp's block icmp.

You still having connection problems to the sites - they work fine from here?

 

[kilos]

Try using an external Proxy outside of SA as mate
of mine could not access certain sites from his IS & SAIX
accounts , connects via outside Proxy and he can access
these site. So certain site are blocked in SA. Will get a
list of these sites.

Sounds like the infamous Dubai Proxy see the message
to know when your site like SkyPE is blocked

Look at DSL pricing in Dubai