Unable to reach site from home, but fine elsewhere!
January 13, 2008 10:25 AM Subscribe
Since around new years eve I have been unable to reach my website from home. Email has also stopped working. BUT, if I can reach it from work and other places, just not at home.
What's going on and how do I fix it?
I live in the UK. My ISP is Pipex.
3 Win XP machines, one iBook. All connected (one wired, the rest wireless) through a Netgear DG834G router to 4mbps Broadband.
I called Pipex support who asked me to perform a Tracert and email it to them. I did, but haven't had a reply. This is what I sent them.
The domains I am trying to reach are:
lemonfridge.com
chrisgunton.com
sedas.net
lemonfridge.com hosts the other 2. sedas.net is my dads business website - he hasn't been able to access it or his email since New Years Eve which is why I am under a bit of pressure to get him back online.
Any ideas?
(Using the software Hotspot Shield will let him get to the site and download email, but not send replies. This is working as a short term solution)
I live in the UK. My ISP is Pipex.
3 Win XP machines, one iBook. All connected (one wired, the rest wireless) through a Netgear DG834G router to 4mbps Broadband.
I called Pipex support who asked me to perform a Tracert and email it to them. I did, but haven't had a reply. This is what I sent them.
The domains I am trying to reach are:
lemonfridge.com
chrisgunton.com
sedas.net
lemonfridge.com hosts the other 2. sedas.net is my dads business website - he hasn't been able to access it or his email since New Years Eve which is why I am under a bit of pressure to get him back online.
Any ideas?
(Using the software Hotspot Shield will let him get to the site and download email, but not send replies. This is working as a short term solution)
FWIW, when I do a traceroute, I reach the same point in ServInt's network where yours fails, but I sail right through it.
Yours stops at the same #11 hop above, and never gets beyond it^^^
Can you reach the customer support portal, or are you blocked from there as well? It's here. From there you can look up the phone number to call and speak to the network operations center. If I still had it handy I'd just give it to you.
posted by evariste at 11:30 AM on January 13, 2008
10 servint.ge5-7.br01.wdc02.pccwbtn.net (63.218.83.2) 78.057 ms 78.862 ms 68.879 ms
11 sc-smv1777.servint.net (209.50.227.14) 69.969 ms 69.919 ms 69.620 ms
12 emma.vnmserver.com (207.58.165.228) 68.881 ms 69.007 ms 68.468 ms
Yours stops at the same #11 hop above, and never gets beyond it^^^
Can you reach the customer support portal, or are you blocked from there as well? It's here. From there you can look up the phone number to call and speak to the network operations center. If I still had it handy I'd just give it to you.
posted by evariste at 11:30 AM on January 13, 2008
I had a similar problem when I was using Pipex and a Netgear router. It ended up being a case of my MTU being set wrong.
Go poke around in your router settings and try changing the MTU to 1500.
Good luck!
posted by Magnakai at 11:54 AM on January 13, 2008
Go poke around in your router settings and try changing the MTU to 1500.
Good luck!
posted by Magnakai at 11:54 AM on January 13, 2008
Er, or you might have locked yourself out somehow. "emma.vnmserver.com" is the same IP address as your domains, and it's the one you can't seem to reach. Were you messing with iptables or anything like that? Do you have any automated scripts to ban IP addresses that might have gotten you swept up in their nets?
posted by evariste at 11:57 AM on January 13, 2008
posted by evariste at 11:57 AM on January 13, 2008
Response by poster: Well I haven't messed with IP tables or anything like that, and I've tried changing my MTU setting to no avail.
I've sent ServInt an email asking for assistance. Hopefully they will get back to me and be more helpful than my host and ISP!
posted by lemonfridge at 12:53 PM on January 13, 2008
I've sent ServInt an email asking for assistance. Hopefully they will get back to me and be more helpful than my host and ISP!
posted by lemonfridge at 12:53 PM on January 13, 2008
Two things I can think of:
Try OpenDNS and see if it's a problem with Pipex's DNS resolving.
Secondly, I had a problem with an internet hosting provider with overzealous DDOS protection - something like checking an e-mail every minute from a number of machines can trigger a IP / Range block (in my experience it was network monitoring software that caused it).
posted by rc55 at 3:13 PM on January 13, 2008
Try OpenDNS and see if it's a problem with Pipex's DNS resolving.
Secondly, I had a problem with an internet hosting provider with overzealous DDOS protection - something like checking an e-mail every minute from a number of machines can trigger a IP / Range block (in my experience it was network monitoring software that caused it).
posted by rc55 at 3:13 PM on January 13, 2008
If you perhaps tried to login several times and failed, it's possible that your host has blocked your home IP as a precaution against a password crack. (I've had the same happen to me when I misremebered what I'd changed my password to.)
A quick call or email to tech support (and a round of verification that you are who you say you are) is all it takes to remove such a block.
posted by deCadmus at 5:57 PM on January 13, 2008
A quick call or email to tech support (and a round of verification that you are who you say you are) is all it takes to remove such a block.
posted by deCadmus at 5:57 PM on January 13, 2008
Response by poster: Turns out my IP was blocked for some unknown reason. A few emails and everything is fine again. I guess it's a downside of having a static IP!
posted by lemonfridge at 12:15 PM on January 14, 2008
posted by lemonfridge at 12:15 PM on January 14, 2008
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posted by evariste at 11:24 AM on January 13, 2008