member having trouble getting to the site.
member having trouble getting to the site.
Jared(rangerboy03lvl2) is having trouble getting on the site from home. any ideas what to try?
he has restarted his cable modem and computer.
i had him do a flushdns and registerdns, still no go, he cleared his temp files and cookies, still nothing.
it hasnt been working for him for about two weeks from home i guess.
thanks for the help
he has restarted his cable modem and computer.
i had him do a flushdns and registerdns, still no go, he cleared his temp files and cookies, still nothing.
it hasnt been working for him for about two weeks from home i guess.
thanks for the help
Originally Posted by FireRanger
hmm. I can only think it is a problem @ his ISP with the DNS. There is nothing I'm aware of on the board to make that happen even by accident.
im guessing it is that too, but idk how to help him fix that.
ok i talked to jared this morning and he said.
he cant get on anywhere. not at work, not at his girl friends house or at home. and all of them have different ISPs the way he talked
sorry for the confusion
he cant get on anywhere. not at work, not at his girl friends house or at home. and all of them have different ISPs the way he talked
sorry for the confusion
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What area of the world is he in? What ISP's? Also, for each of those locations, can he tell me what the IP is being resolved to?
To get me the IP, do the following:
Start
Run
cmd (or command if windows 98)
nslookup ranger-forums.com
Post the results, or PM them to me.
THanks!
To get me the IP, do the following:
Start
Run
cmd (or command if windows 98)
nslookup ranger-forums.com
Post the results, or PM them to me.
THanks!
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From: Colorado, Lone Tree
I got it to work here right now at work .... it took me 4 tries though ... each time it has said page can not be displayed.
THis has gone on for 2 weeks off and on ...makes me miss rf more and more lol
WHen i get home i will try to do the ip thing and tell zach if i still cant get on at home. i can not get the ip from this comp ... they have it locked down like a mo foe lol ...
what could cause this any ideas? and its only with rf.com i can get onto any other site i try ... it is very wierd.
thanks for all the help everyone!
-Jared
THis has gone on for 2 weeks off and on ...makes me miss rf more and more lol
WHen i get home i will try to do the ip thing and tell zach if i still cant get on at home. i can not get the ip from this comp ... they have it locked down like a mo foe lol ...
what could cause this any ideas? and its only with rf.com i can get onto any other site i try ... it is very wierd.
thanks for all the help everyone!
-Jared
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DNS is Domain Name Service. Basically, on the regular Internet, everything uses an IP address. It looks something like 192.168.12.49, for example. What DNS does is associates that IP address with a name, such as ranger-forums.com. So, rather than having to remember a hundred different IP addresses for every site I want to go to, all I have to do is remember the names of them. Much easier that way. :)
Now, to get a little more in depth. There are many many many servers our there that do DNS. Your company may have one or two, your ISP will have some, and at the core, there's the root DNS servers. When RF changed hosts, our IP address changed. The root DNS servers were updated very quickly. The problem is that ISP's and companies don't always get their updates as fast. Generally, most updates take place within 24 hours. Sometimes though, it can take a little longer. In rare instances, it doesn't update.
Not entirely sure what exactly happened though. Seems like some people can't even get to their DNS servers.
Regardless though, that's a pretty high level overview of DNS. :)
Now, to get a little more in depth. There are many many many servers our there that do DNS. Your company may have one or two, your ISP will have some, and at the core, there's the root DNS servers. When RF changed hosts, our IP address changed. The root DNS servers were updated very quickly. The problem is that ISP's and companies don't always get their updates as fast. Generally, most updates take place within 24 hours. Sometimes though, it can take a little longer. In rare instances, it doesn't update.
Not entirely sure what exactly happened though. Seems like some people can't even get to their DNS servers.
Regardless though, that's a pretty high level overview of DNS. :)
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Joined: Jan 2005
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From: Portland, OR
Skot,
Its all clicks and whistles to most people man.
Dns is like a phone book for the interent. When you want some ones phone number you look up their name and you see a 10 digit number.
When your computer wants to know how to get to yahoo.com it connects to the DNS server of your ISP and and asks for the Ip address of the yahoo.com and the DNS server will either give it to you computer or tell you where you can find it.
Its all clicks and whistles to most people man.
Dns is like a phone book for the interent. When you want some ones phone number you look up their name and you see a 10 digit number.
When your computer wants to know how to get to yahoo.com it connects to the DNS server of your ISP and and asks for the Ip address of the yahoo.com and the DNS server will either give it to you computer or tell you where you can find it.
