How is this possible?

ebpcivicsi · 10-07-05, 06:56

You go to visit a forum, IE tells you that the page cannot be displayed. This is the case from say 6:00 a.m. until noon. When you are finally able to view the website, there are posts from the 6:00 a.m. - noon window. Why was it not down for others?

G35stilez · 10-07-05, 06:57

Maybe the time settings are off?

I gave up on IE a while ago. Mozilla Firefox has been my go-to for about a year, maybe longer.

ebpcivicsi · 10-07-05, 07:10

^^ It's a local forum, so I know that the time is correct????

Rollman · 10-11-05, 02:43

Like GSR I gave up using IE and use firefox.

Setec Astronomy · 10-11-05, 03:34

How about your ISP was having a problem during that time, so it was just YOU that couldn't connect? The internet is a strange and complicated connection of networks, mirrored servers, DNS, etc....things may not always make sense.

Scottwax · 10-11-05, 08:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by GSRstilez

Mozilla Firefox has been my go-to for about a year, maybe longer.

If I was going to switch, it would be to Opera. One browser I would never use is Yahoo, what a memory hog!

Mike-in-Orange · 10-12-05, 04:07

If you think of the various lines connecting all the different servers on the Internet as being a network of freeways, it becomes easy to see how even though the route you're taking to get from point A to point B may be blocked, others can reach point B because they're taking a different route.

I once could not reach my own websites, which reside on servers in New Jersey, but I could go everywhere else on the 'net. I was on the phone with a friend, discussing one of my sites, and he could see it just fine. So, I fired up the old copy of AOL I have on my machine and tried connecting that way - bingo! I was in. But I still couldn't reach it through my broadband connection. So I ran a trace route through my broadband connection and one through AOL. You guessed it - even though both originated from my machine, AOL was using a different route to get from Orange, CA to New Jersey. In fact, the trace route from my broadband connected died in Memphis, TN. It turned out that a Sprint Communications owned switch somewhere in Memphis had gone bad and was effectively blocking traffic. I called tech support, discussed the problem, they called Sprint, and within two hours it was fixed and working. The websites in question were never really down, I was just stuck in traffic so to speak.

Setec Astronomy · 10-12-05, 04:15

Thanks Mike...that was a lot better explanation than mine...