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calliopes_pen ([personal profile] calliopes_pen) wrote2010-08-16 06:46 pm
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Odd Computer Issue

There is something very weird going on with my computer. Maybe it’s a virus, maybe Spyware Doctor blocked something and caused this, I don’t know. A couple of sites don’t work for me, and simply say 404 Not Found. However, the sites are up just as I suspected--[personal profile] seandc helped me to confirm this. So something is blocking them on my end. Things were fine up until the 12th or 13th, I believe.

It’s the X-Project Wiki (the syndicated feed also helped me confirm it was just me) and this site I use for finding Marvel Icons. I have no idea what they would have in common, since I can’t actually get to them right now.

Spyware Doctor once blocked Youtube, but this doesn’t seem to be like that time. That was easy to fix, and it told me it was blocking it. This time, all I get is the 404 error. Anyone else having a weird problem like this or know what it could be? Otherwise, I’m able to get to every other site I normally go to perfectly fine.

I dug through Norton, and I don't think it's them causing it.
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[identity profile] newnumber6.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
One thing to try. Go to a DNS site, and look up the numerical IP address of the sites you can't get to. Try it that way. If you still can't get it, then yeah, something's blocking the site. If you can, it could be that somehow it got incorrect DNS information - it can't find it because it's not where it thinks it's supposed to be looking (or rather, possibly, it finds SOMETHING there, but the specific subpages and such get a 404 error). I've had something like this once or twice and the bad DNS information was strangely persistent. I think I went to a command prompt and did ipconfig /flushdns to make it get it from scratch.

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[personal profile] calliopes_pen 2010-08-17 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Went to Kloth.net, and typed in the two addresses. All I really get from that is NXDOMAIN.

ETA: Over at Yahoo Answers, someone had some steps for getting what it thinks is the IP. I followed that, and the two were the same. Typed that into Google, and found that at least one other person is having the same problem. For the exact amount of time.
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[identity profile] newnumber6.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that sounds like it's on their end then, or somewhere in between at least. Well, at least you know it's not you!
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[personal profile] calliopes_pen 2010-08-17 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know what I did--or what just happened--but the icon site I mentioned suddenly works for me again. I'll look through there and then try the other one.

ETA: No, that Wiki's still not working for me.
ETA 2: And suddenly, without me doing anything, it works again at 1:30 PM.
Edited 2010-08-17 18:28 (UTC)

[identity profile] newnumber6.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
My guess is that the site it was hosted on changed it's IP in the last few days, and then had to go on and update the DNS, so when people input the name, they get there. Now, there are boatloads of different DNS servers, so it's only natural that some get it before others, and occasionally a few get it really late, so you wind up with a few people who can't access it for days at a time because they get their DNS from one of the slow servers. Since they have two (or more) separate names for the same numerical IP, they probably came in shortly after one nother.

Or of course, it could just be it was down for completely different reasons, too.
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[personal profile] calliopes_pen 2010-08-17 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That makes sense, thank you. I suspect it was the former as you explained, rather than it being down at all. Since everyone else I know has been able to get into both sites fine. Mine is the very last to find out things, presumably.
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[personal profile] clocketpatch 2010-08-17 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's been happening to me for a bit too and it's making me paranoid. I've had virus issues with this computer before so... O.o

But I've scanned it with everything I can access, checked the registry, deleted all the cookies, etc. etc.

If you figure out what causes it please tell.
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[personal profile] calliopes_pen 2010-08-17 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Over at Yahoo Answers, someone had some steps for getting what it thinks is the IP. I followed that, and the two IP addresses were supposedly the same. Typed that into Google, and found that at least one other person is having the same problem. For the exact amount of time.

I don't know how to fix it yet, but there you go.
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