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Problems accessing website/servers

Hi all,

I've recently switched ISPs and I'm having some problems accessing the main website AND the Boinc service itself (so no crunching for me right now! :(). When I try to load the page, it tries to load and eventually says something like "Cannot connect to website".

I posted on my ISP's official forum and asked them if they knew what was wrong. One of the members of the forum told me to try running a traceroute and here are the results:

C:\Users\Richard>tracert www.worldcommunitygrid.org

Tracing route to www.worldcommunitygrid.org [198.20.8.246]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 37 ms 99 ms 99 ms bebox.config [192.168.1.254]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * 15 ms Xe0-1-1-0-grtontl1.red.telefonica-wholesale.net
[213.140.51.181]
5 83 ms 83 ms 83 ms So1-3-0-0-grtnycpt3.red.telefonica-wholesale.net
[213.140.36.206]
6 89 ms 88 ms 154 ms So4-2-0-0-grtwaseq2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net
.127.142.94.in-addr.arpa [94.142.127.134]
7 89 ms 89 ms 99 ms bx1-ashburn_so-3-1-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.147.89]

8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
*BLAHBLAHLAH*
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

I was then advised:

"This means that the connection is probably blocked somewhere 'down the chain' however setting the routers not to reply to ICMP requests doesn't help as we cannot pinpoint where the problem is. Have you tried contacting the website's administrator and ask him or her to check whether your IP was not blocked somewhere in a firewall by a mistake?"

I can't see anywhere obvious to contact the site's admin, so I thought I'd make a post on here...

Does anyone have any ideas? :)

Thanks!
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

Did you try flushing your DNS cache?

ipconfig /flushdns
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

Tomorrow is DNSSEC worldwide switch day... some places on the planet already have May 5, but seriously we are seeing a few of these reports over at the Berkeley forum and have asked a tech to look in.

ping worldcommunitygrid.org without prefix I have also tried, but I know no better that pinging WCG always times out, so it does.
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

pinging it should timeout, but you should get a response about the ip address. We are looking into what may be the issue but it could be a DNSSEC issue, I do not know at this time.

-Uplinger
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

:], yes the ping does resolve to show the correct IP. 198.20.8.246
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

I'll try flushing my DNS catch when I get home and see if that helps the problem. Thanks for the suggestion.
Edit: Has happened over multiple computers in the house, so on second thoughts this probably won't help, but I'll give it a whirl anyway :P

But apart from that am I just going to have to wait a while to see if you guys can track this issue down?

At least I know I'm not the only one experiencing problems... Weird, huh? :)
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

My ADSL/router acts as DNS server intermediate... guess what I do first and most often clears the obstruction :D
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

I guess somebody did something right... I'm not able to access the website and the servers!
Did somebody sacrifice a goat to the gods or something? :P
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

Are you posting from a different computer than the one that has connection problems to WCG? If so, first sacrifice a lamb, than unplug the problem computer from the Internet and connect it to the connection cable to the computer that you're posting from. Then post the messages that show in the BOINC manager.
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Re: Problems accessing website/servers

Are you posting from a different computer than the one that has connection problems to WCG? If so, first sacrifice a lamb, than unplug the problem computer from the Internet and connect it to the connection cable to the computer that you're posting from. Then post the messages that show in the BOINC manager.


I'm now not able to access the service again. Weird! :(

None of them computers in my house can connect to the WCG service... So it's not an issue with any of my computers, and rather either WCG/BOINC itself or my ISP (and my ISP says the blame is not with them).

I'm either posting from college or my gf's house :)

I'll get the messages that show in the BOINC manager as soon as I can, but if I remember rightly they either say they cannot connect to the service and I should check my conncetion or they say they cannot connect to the server as it may temporarily be down.

Cheers, sorry for the confusion!
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