… unless someone figures out why it is for the past week I time out whenever I try to visit it. No 404, just a time out. And it happens whether I use Safari or Firefox, or IE7 under Parallels, or any PC on my network. I can read the feed, but I want to share the love of Mathew’s widgets and also maybe comment every once in a while. I can reach every other site on the Intarweb I try to visit, and he has had no similar complaints. Any rocket surgeons out there with ideas about what’s going on?
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I am not sure if you are doing this from work or not, but if you are trying it from work – get the your IT person to flush the cache on the proxy server, if you are trying it from home, reboot your router just in case there is a DNS entry that’s frozen.
Seva, thanks for offering the comment. I rebooted the router, but no luck :(
I see you’ve detected my new “feature” :-)
I would help, but I’m really not that bright. Plus, I’m an English major. I barely even know how the Internet works.
Well, maybe I just don’t have your blog on *my* intarweb anymore. Or perhaps there’s something clogging the pipe.
Just stick to RSS, and you’ll be fine. :-)
Ok, silly suggestion, have you deleted your local cache & cookies? Might be a proxy server, but it also might be a small local caching issue. Just a thought.
Thanks, Steve – Great idea – but no effect :(
Can you check the site on another computer using the same ISP? I guess it’s possible that your dns server is misconfigured. You can try http://www.opendns.com/ it’s a dns server separate from your isp and see if that works.
Hey Rob, try a “ipconfig /flushdns” and see if it works after that.
-Austin
Thanks, Judson – yes, I have used a different box on the same IP address. Same problem. I already use opendns, actually – think that could be the problem? Mebbe I should revert to my ISP’s DNS servers ….
Austin – you sound suspiciously like a windows guy :). I haven’t been able to flush my dns using ipconfig in a dog’s age. I wonder what the OSX equivalent is – will try to figure that out – thanks …
(sigh)
Austin – found the way to do this in OSX, but no love.
Sigh. Changed the DNS settings back to the default, and no change.
Hmmm. Maybe it’s a DNS propagation thing – after reverting to Rogers default DNS, I’m in. But now, shut out of OpenDNS, I guess.
Maybe email the OpenDNS people, if it still doesn’t work with them, they might know why. I emailed them once for some reason I can’t remember, but they were very responsive.
Good idea, Judson. I think I’ll switch back to OpenDNS and see what happens. So maybe I’ll be Mathew-free for a day or two again :)