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I Will Never Again Read Mathew Ingram’s Blog

February 15, 2007 at 09:40 | Print This Post Print This Post

… 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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14 Responses to “I Will Never Again Read Mathew Ingram’s Blog”


  1. seva
    February 15th, 2007 at 12:22

    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.


  2. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 15th, 2007 at 12:59

    Seva, thanks for offering the comment. I rebooted the router, but no luck :(


  3. Mathew Ingram (45 comments.)
    February 15th, 2007 at 15:21

    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.


  4. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 15th, 2007 at 17:06

    Well, maybe I just don’t have your blog on *my* intarweb anymore. Or perhaps there’s something clogging the pipe.


  5. Steve Matthews (7 comments.)
    February 15th, 2007 at 17:55

    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.


  6. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 15th, 2007 at 18:01

    Thanks, Steve - Great idea - but no effect :(


  7. Judson (15 comments.)
    February 15th, 2007 at 23:38

    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.


  8. Austin Hill (1 comments.)
    February 16th, 2007 at 00:08

    Hey Rob, try a “ipconfig /flushdns” and see if it works after that.

    -Austin


  9. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 16th, 2007 at 07:44

    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 …


  10. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 16th, 2007 at 07:47

    (sigh)

    Austin - found the way to do this in OSX, but no love.


  11. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 20th, 2007 at 16:52

    Sigh. Changed the DNS settings back to the default, and no change.


  12. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 21st, 2007 at 17:36

    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.


  13. Judson (15 comments.)
    February 21st, 2007 at 18:58

    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.


  14. Rob Hyndman (317 comments.)
    February 22nd, 2007 at 08:10

    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 :)