wierd website problem

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 01:56 AM

Hi all,

I'm experiencing a strange website problem

. There is one site I can't access, and I have no idea why.

All my normal internet works fine but if I try and access this particular site I get a server not found error, if I try and ping using www.domainname.tld I get an unknown host error. I've tried looking at the site from my work and it's fine, so it must be something wrong with my machine. I can ping the IP of the server it is on fine but I can't use the www.domainname.tld in my browser.

There is something wrong with my setup somewhere, but I'm completely clueless what I might have missed. Can anyone shed any light on this please

dive · 01-04-2006, 08:34 AM

Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.domainname.tld

Looks like it's not just you. Never heard of .tld domain before though

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 08:38 AM

lol, that was just an example. tld stands for top level domain (e.g. .co.uk .com. net etc etc. )

The domain I was trying was www.tenshadesofgreen.co.uk, which works fine from everycomputer but mine at home, which is more than inconvinient as I need to upload my pages to it and test from home

mdarby · 01-04-2006, 08:41 AM

You could always manually add it to your /etc/hosts file.

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 08:43 AM

thanks, I'll try that. Do you know any reason why it wouldn't automatically be doing everything like for all the other websites

I'm curious to know the cause

XavierP · 01-04-2006, 09:12 AM

Works fine for me.

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 09:20 AM

Yeah, that's what I mean it seems to work fine for everyone else - just not for me on my computer at home

cwwilson721 · 01-04-2006, 10:39 AM

Try to go to microsoft.com....If that doesn't load either, I've found that it may have to do with your MTU size (found that one out once when I was trying to get my speed up a little.) This maybe the only thing m$ is good at, checking your MTU settings...lol

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 11:04 AM

That works fine, as does everything else on the web

it's just this one site

dive · 01-04-2006, 11:11 AM

oops thats what I get for clicking without reading lol

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 11:13 AM

I've found another website that doesn't work for me at home http://www.diamond.co.uk/ if I click on get a quote I get the same error

XavierP · 01-04-2006, 12:09 PM

That works for me too. What's in your /etc/hosts file?

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 12:19 PM

Code:

#
# hosts         This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
#               mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It is mostly
#               used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
#               On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
#               "named" name server.  Just add the names, addresses
#               and any aliases to this file...
#
# By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@nvg.unit.no> says that 127.0.0.1
# should NEVER be named with the name of the machine.  It causes problems
# for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^)
#

# For loopbacking.
127.0.0.1               localhost
127.0.0.1               darkstar.localhost darkstar
127.0.0.1               theappletree.localhost

# End of hosts.

shilo · 01-04-2006, 12:43 PM

Maybe it's a DNS problem with your ISP. Do you have a different machine (or Dual-Boot) that you could try? Maybe try a live-cd? Those could help determine if it is a problem with your machine/config or something else.

***EDIT***
Just saw your /etc/hosts file. As root, run netconfig.

dhbiker · 01-04-2006, 01:00 PM

What do I need to do in netconfig

I don't have another machine I can use