Ongoing problem connecting to CFC

Thunderfall · May 21, 2008

Ok, more things for you to try:

Can you access either http://www.atomicgamer.com/ or http://www.linuxgames.com/

?

jkp1187 · May 21, 2008

Thunderfall said:
Ok, more things for you to try:

Can you access either http://www.atomicgamer.com/ or http://www.linuxgames.com/

?

Yes to both.

PrinceMyshkin · May 22, 2008

I can access both of the above sites.

Galaneria · May 22, 2008

It looks like I can access both sites, too.

josephstalin · May 22, 2008

I can access both.

Thunderfall · May 23, 2008

Good to know... Those are both sites hosted by our host.

There are a few things we could try, like changing the IP address of the server. But that's not trivial and I'm not sure when our host want to try that... I will keep you guys updated.

jkp1187 · May 23, 2008

Thanks for following up on this, Thunderfall.

Puupertti Ruma · May 25, 2008

I was also suffering from this problem, but I found a solution that works! I don't remember anymore where I read it, but from somewhere somebody adviced that turning off the hardware firewall on a Thompson router might work, and it did. Do any of the other who have problems have Thompson router?

discolando27 · May 26, 2008

Good to know that I'm not the only one having this issue, as a side note guys I had a modder post the links to the files hosted on civfanatics to me directly in an email and those DID work, though no other links or parts of the site here were able to be accessed, I don't know if that will help to track down what's going on but wanted to mention it

Thunderfall · May 26, 2008

discolando27 said:
Good to know that I'm not the only one having this issue, as a side note guys I had a modder post the links to the files hosted on civfanatics to me directly in an email and those DID work, though no other links or parts of the site here were able to be accessed, I don't know if that will help to track down what's going on but wanted to mention it

Is that download link on civfanatics.com or civfanatics.net?

IglooDame · May 27, 2008

Puupertti Ruma said:
I was also suffering from this problem, but I found a solution that works! I don't remember anymore where I read it, but from somewhere somebody adviced that turning off the hardware firewall on a Thompson router might work, and it did. Do any of the other who have problems have Thompson router?

CFC is a truly wonderful place, but I'm not sure it is worth dropping your firewall to access it.

Plinko16 · May 27, 2008

Thunderfall said:
Ok, more things for you to try:

Can you access either http://www.atomicgamer.com/ or http://www.linuxgames.com/

?

I can see both sites, but if I click on their links to CFC, I get nothing.

I would think this has to be an ISP-related problem, possibly our DNS are not resolving the domain name for some reason or another. Have people reporting the problem shared ISPs?

Is there an IP address we could try to connect with instead of the domain?

I cannot use any proxy portals at home, but could someone suggest a DNS server I could try? I recall being able to set a custom DNS in I.E. to resolve temorary problems when a domain changed IPs in the past.

Maian · May 28, 2008

I'm also having problems accessing this site. I'm using an internet proxy at the moment. This the error message I'm getting in Firefox:

Network Timeout
The server at www.civfanatics.com is taking too long to respond.

And in Internet Explorer:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

So it's definitely not a browser problem. Don't remember when this problem started, since I haven't visited this site in a while, but it's been at least a week or so.

I can ping civfanatics.com, and it does resolve to 208.111.158.15. It seems I can connect to civfanatics.com (it says "Connecting to civfanatics.com" in the status bar instead of "Looking up civfanatics.com"), but it just times out or something.

I can access civfanatics.net
I can access atomicgamer.com
I can access linuxgamer.com
I cannot access eqforge.com (can ping it though)
I cannot access myinternetproxy.com (can't ping it, but it does resolve to an IP address)

I'm living in Seattle at the moment. My IP address is 67.182.130.213 and my (apartment-provided) ISP is Comcast Cable. I can't manage my router so I can't disable the router firewall. Cookies are enabled.

tracert and ping log:

Code:

C:\Documents and Settings\Maian>tracert civfanatics.com

Tracing route to civfanatics.com [208.111.158.15]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  2    11 ms    21 ms     9 ms  ge-1-6-ur01.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.8
6.99.57]
  3    21 ms     *        9 ms  te-9-3-ur02.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.8
6.96.98]
  4     8 ms    11 ms     *     te-9-1-ar01.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.8
6.96.102]
  5    11 ms     9 ms     9 ms  te-9-1-ur01.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.86
.96.186]
  6    19 ms    19 ms    21 ms  te-9-1-ar02.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.8
6.90.210]
  7    11 ms    11 ms    13 ms  COMCAST-IP-SERVICES.TenGigabitethernet1-4.ar5.SE
A1.gblx.net [64.209.111.94]
  8    18 ms     9 ms    18 ms  TenGigabitethernet1-4.ar5.SEA1.gblx.net [64.209.
111.93]
  9    10 ms    29 ms    22 ms  64.214.140.90
 10    14 ms    10 ms    12 ms  ve5.fr3.sea2.llnw.net [69.28.171.77]
 11    31 ms    42 ms    31 ms  tge2-2.fr3.sjc.llnw.net [69.28.171.145]
 12    40 ms    42 ms    38 ms  tge1-1.fr4.lax.llnw.net [69.28.171.117]
 13    39 ms    48 ms    49 ms  ve6.fr3.lax.llnw.net [69.28.171.205]
 14    46 ms    72 ms    48 ms  tge1-2.fr3.phx1.llnw.net [69.28.171.81]
 15    45 ms    50 ms    46 ms  tge1-4.fr3.phx2.llnw.net [69.28.171.98]
 16    97 ms    99 ms   103 ms  tge1-3.fr3.dal.llnw.net [69.28.171.130]
 17    96 ms    96 ms    95 ms  ve5.fr4.dal.llnw.net [69.28.171.106]
 18    95 ms   102 ms    92 ms  starscream.telefragged.com [208.111.158.15]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Maian>ping civfanatics.com

Pinging civfanatics.com [208.111.158.15] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 208.111.158.15: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=49
Reply from 208.111.158.15: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=49
Reply from 208.111.158.15: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=49
Reply from 208.111.158.15: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=49

Needless to say, this is very perplexing.

Thunderfall · May 28, 2008

Curious... Does it make any difference if you try to access an image directly, for example:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/images/buttons/reply.gif

?

Also, has any of you asked your ISP to try visiting the site to see if they have the same problem as you?

PrinceMyshkin · May 28, 2008

The link you provide above still times out for me. I've contacted my ISP and they report no problems bringing up the site or navigating its links.

Maian · May 28, 2008

Same here - the image link times out for me.

jkp1187 · May 28, 2008

I cannot access links either.

josephstalin · May 28, 2008

Same: the reply button link did not work.

jkp1187 · May 28, 2008

Maian said:
I'm living in Seattle at the moment. My IP address is 67.182.130.213 and my (apartment-provided) ISP is Comcast Cable. I can't manage my router so I can't disable the router firewall. Cookies are enabled.

Well isn't that interesting? My ISP is also Comcast.

Plinko16 · May 29, 2008

Mine is Charter Communications.

I would think several people here would be using Comcast since they're one of the biggest cable companies in the US. . .

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