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Name: Albert Leao
Date: August 10, 2007 at 16:26:30 Pacific
OS: xp pro
CPU/Ram: 1 gig
Product: i built it
Comment:

Ok so... my internet had been working fine for quite some time, and it still does for 99% of my sites, but for some reason, a few sites stopped working. The most common one to have stopped is www.tibia.com. I have scanned my computer for viruses and found nothing. I went to my command prompt and did a "ping www.tibia.com" and got the following:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=64
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 <0%loss>,
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 10ms, Average = 2ms

Thanks in advance



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 10, 2007 at 17:24:49 Pacific
Reply:

What do you mean by "Stopped working?" What browser are you using? What happened immediately preceding the problem?

Life's more painless for the brainless.


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Response Number 2
Name: Albert Leao
Date: August 10, 2007 at 17:28:37 Pacific
Reply:

Unable to connect





Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.tibia.com.




* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.


I'm using firefox, but it doesnt work on IE either


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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill
Date: August 10, 2007 at 18:09:02 Pacific
Reply:

Just tried that site and connected fine.


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Response Number 4
Name: terii
Date: August 10, 2007 at 18:14:36 Pacific
Reply:

Here is a quote from Wikipedia.

"In computing, in the context of a TCP/IP network such as the Internet, localhost is a reserved name meaning this computer. It is used where one would otherwise specify the name or address of a computer in the network. For example, directing a web browser to http://localhost will display the home page of the web site (if any) being served from the computer running the browser. A common basic test of the TCP/IP protocol stack on a machine is to enter this command at a shell prompt:

ping localhost

localhost always translates to the loopback IP address 127.0.0.1"


In other words your ping never got out of your machine. I would suggest you check your firewall to see if that is where the blockage is.


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Response Number 5
Name: Albert Leao
Date: August 10, 2007 at 18:16:28 Pacific
Reply:

I know othehill, my friends connect to it aswell, but i still cannot


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Response Number 6
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 10, 2007 at 18:36:15 Pacific
Reply:

Either your firewall, router or HOSTS file.


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Response Number 7
Name: Albert Leao
Date: August 10, 2007 at 18:46:23 Pacific
Reply:

Dont use a router, only firewall i have is Zonealarm. What you mean Hosts file? Everyone else can log on thesite


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Response Number 8
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 10, 2007 at 18:50:39 Pacific
Reply:

HOSTS is a text file on your windows drive.

See if it contains tibia.com


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Response Number 9
Name: Albert Leao
Date: August 10, 2007 at 19:07:14 Pacific
Reply:

it does

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.tibia.com
127.0.0.1 www.tibia.org.pl
127.0.0.1 tibia.org.pl
127.0.0.1 www.tibia.pl
127.0.0.1 www.tibia.net
127.0.0.1 server.tibia.com


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Response Number 10
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 10, 2007 at 19:14:43 Pacific
Reply:

Delete the tibia lines or disable them by prepending a # like this:

#127.0.0.1 www.tibia.com

DO NOT tamper with this line:

127.0.0.1 localhost



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Response Number 11
Name: Albert Leao
Date: August 10, 2007 at 19:15:30 Pacific
Reply:

well i deleted those and they started working again, but just a quick question, how did they get there?


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Response Number 12
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 10, 2007 at 19:18:09 Pacific
Reply:

Beats me. I was going to ask you.

Did you download a list of 'common nuisance' sites?


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