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One particular website won't load

  • 02-01-2010 7:52pm
    #1
    Rylan
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭


    Trying to get on to the following website from my laptop and it won't open for me. Every other website is fine. Have tried switching off window firewall to no avail. The website is www.tropicalplaces.ie . Me fixing this problem would earn me major brownie points with the OH;). Any help appreciated.


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,432 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Rylan wrote: »
    Trying to get on to the following website from my laptop and it won't open for me. Every other website is fine. Have tried switching off window firewall to no avail. The website is www.tropicalplaces.ie . Me ficing this problem would earn me major brownie points with the OH;). Any help appreciated.

    Site loads fine off the OpenDNS servers, and resolves to 78.153.208.255. Show us the results of a ping attempt and an ipconfig /flushdns.


  • #3
    Rylan
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Not very handy with the old pc but when i do what you say it comes up "the requested operation requires elevation" ??

    Ping comes up with a load of "request timed out"


  • #4
    johnciall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭johnciall


    right click command prompt & select "Run as Administrator" that'll let you run the checks


  • #5
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,432 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Rylan wrote: »
    Not very handy with the old pc but when i do what you say it comes up "the requested operation requires elevation" ??

    Ping comes up with a load of "request timed out"

    The ping itself may not responded to (and probably won't), but it should demonstrate that name resolution is working at least.


  • #6
    Rylan
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
    Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    C:\Windows\system32>ping 78.153.208.255

    Pinging 78.153.208.255 with 32 bytes of data:
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.

    Ping statistics for 78.153.208.255:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

    C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /flushdns

    Windows IP Configuration

    Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

    C:\Windows\system32>



    Still not loading website though.:(

    I can access the website through a proxy server. Weird:confused:.


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  • #7
    porte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭porte


    Hey, try changing your preferred DNS server address to 8.8.8.8. Hope this helps.;)


  • #8
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,432 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Rylan wrote: »

    I can access the website through a proxy server. Weird:confused:.

    Then it's not a local issue. Show the results of a traceroute to it. Are you on Smart Telecom? There's a report of a routing issue here.

    http://support.smarttelecom.ie/forums/showthread.php?p=25746#post25746


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