Willsy Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Anyone know what the issue is with Atari-Forum.com? Is it permanently dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 That sucks. Down for me too. Obviously, the site has been hacked by angry, perverse Amiga users. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Works fine for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 Works fine for me. Rybags, where are you based? In the US? Strange... I'm in the UK but it's as dead as a dead thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted October 27, 2010 Author Share Posted October 27, 2010 WHOIS atari-forum.com Domain Name: ATARI-FORUM.COM Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Name Server: NS1.USERS2.250HOST.COM <------ Name Server: NS2.USERS2.250HOST.COM <------ Status: ok Updated Date: 13-oct-2008 Creation Date: 19-apr-2002 Expiration Date: 19-apr-2012 Why I try 250host.com they are down... So, atari-forums host is off the internet. Man, that sucks. Looks like they need to find a new host, because it was down all day yesterday too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredder11 Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Working for me and I am in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 Works fine from the UK for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Getting Server Not Found here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Works fine for me from the UK. Just logged in and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I got it to work for me. But... I forgot my password. DRAT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Still getting server not found here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Oldatarian, try this: open a cmd prompt, type in ipconfig /renew that will renew everything about your IP address, though you may have to do a dns flush, too, but check that later. Or your local servers may not be talking to the British ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 (edited) Oldatarian, try this: open a cmd prompt, type in ipconfig /renew that will renew everything about your IP address, though you may have to do a dns flush, too, but check that later. Or your local servers may not be talking to the British ones. Nope. Doesn't work. Firefox can't find the server at www.atari-forum.com Flushed DNS cache and still can't connect Does anyone know the numerical address for the site? Maybe it can be accessed that way if the name can't be resolved. Edited November 1, 2010 by OldAtarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanallan Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Seems a lot of people have been having this happen (from Website discussions on atari-forum): Hi there. Over the last few days, the atari forum site is coming up as 'not found' when I try to get to it on my main ISP. This is a virgin media / ex-ntl cable service. I am fortunate in having more than one way to get on t'net, but it is a pain posting something this size from a teeny nokia keyboard! Is there a blocking policy for some isp's or other issue causing problems between virgin media and atari forum? More people have been having problems, this post was up at the forum to try to help: If you guys can access your router through your browser i.e. going to http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1 ,you can change the DNS servers your computers use to look up the atari forum address. I use one dns server from opendns.com and another from my isp. The opendns.com dns server addresses are: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 By changing the dns servers, it will bypass any dns (lookup) issues your isp has. I'm not sure if it will allow content if the isp has blocked it though. Probably better to use a web proxy for that but the free ones can be slow. http://anoniem-surfen.eigenstart.nl/ Does this help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Seems a lot of people have been having this happen (from Website discussions on atari-forum): Hi there. Over the last few days, the atari forum site is coming up as 'not found' when I try to get to it on my main ISP. This is a virgin media / ex-ntl cable service. I am fortunate in having more than one way to get on t'net, but it is a pain posting something this size from a teeny nokia keyboard! Is there a blocking policy for some isp's or other issue causing problems between virgin media and atari forum? More people have been having problems, this post was up at the forum to try to help: If you guys can access your router through your browser i.e. going to http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.1.1 ,you can change the DNS servers your computers use to look up the atari forum address. I use one dns server from opendns.com and another from my isp. The opendns.com dns server addresses are: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 By changing the dns servers, it will bypass any dns (lookup) issues your isp has. I'm not sure if it will allow content if the isp has blocked it though. Probably better to use a web proxy for that but the free ones can be slow. http://anoniem-surfen.eigenstart.nl/ Does this help? Nope. I don't use a router. I'm directly connected to my cable modem and can't change any of the settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+poobah Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Nope. I don't use a router. I'm directly connected to my cable modem and can't change any of the settings. Just add opendns to your network settings on your computer. if the primary dns falls over, opendns will resolve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muguk Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Works fine in the UK for me. No-one seems to have posted on the forum itself about major problems other than a few people using Virgin as their ISP (again, UK-based people). I'll send Silver Surfer a message about this thread as he looks after the back-end side of things and see what he can find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanh Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 It's been down for me too. :-( I've spoken to my ISP and they suggest it's a 250host.com problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAtarian Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 (edited) Nope. I don't use a router. I'm directly connected to my cable modem and can't change any of the settings. Just add opendns to your network settings on your computer. if the primary dns falls over, opendns will resolve Did it. Seems to be working now. Edited November 3, 2010 by OldAtarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredder11 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I forgot to mention that I am on Virgin Media Broadband (L) in the UK and have not had any problems with the forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 down for me at the moment, looks like their host has dns server issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Working fine for me in the UK. I just logged in and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Working fine for me in the UK. I just logged in and out. Looks like a dns server issue somewhere then, probably with their hosts' name servers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted November 17, 2010 Author Share Posted November 17, 2010 Working fine for me in the UK. I just logged in and out. Looks like a dns server issue somewhere then, probably with their hosts' name servers. Still doesn't work for me, after two weeks. If I connect via "3 mobile" it's fine. I'm with BT and have now determined that BT are actively blocking 250host.com and thus any sites they host are not available to me. That so SUCKS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Working fine for me in the UK. I just logged in and out. Looks like a dns server issue somewhere then, probably with their hosts' name servers. Still doesn't work for me, after two weeks. If I connect via "3 mobile" it's fine. I'm with BT and have now determined that BT are actively blocking 250host.com and thus any sites they host are not available to me. That so SUCKS I'm with BT too. atari-forum was available every so often, in fact I was able to login about 2 weeks ago. Not sure why BT would block 250host unless they host some nasty stuff or have servers that have been compromised and turned into malicious senders of spam or viruses or even ... the spawn of Satan. BT aren't very responsive so not sure if they'll ever get back to me and tell me why or confirm if they are actively blocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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