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Are there any other Comcast users here having difficulty accessing LFO with their Comcast account? I'm posting this from my Blackberry, which is having no problem hitting the site, but ...
- 07-30-2008 #1Just Joined!
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[SOLVED] Problem accessing LFO
Are there any other Comcast users here having difficulty accessing LFO with their Comcast account? I'm posting this from my Blackberry, which is having no problem hitting the site, but my cable-fed desktop gets a 'Host not found' every time I point it at LFO.
Modem, OS, firewall, etc. are fine. Problem has to lie with ISP or internet pipes. I doubt it's the latter.
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How's your DNS? What DNS are you using? Try accessing it through the IP - it's currently 67.15.52.42.
If you get through with that consider switching to another DNS provider. I find OpenDNS quite good.
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BigTom,
Hadn't occured to me. Will look into it when I get home tonight. Thanks.
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Having the occasional issue with connection timeouts, But mostly it's OK
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate! (Zapp Brannigan)
My new blog. It's probably not as good as I think it is.
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Had some trouble going to linuxforums today. Assumed server was down. Tried again later, et voila
Can't tell an OS by it's GUI
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Down for me a couple of times earlier today, too.
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→ new members/users: read this first | new member faq
→ no private messages requesting computer support - post them on the forums!
→ please use the "report post" button to alert our forum admins to problematic posts rather than responding to them yourself.
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I have Comcast, and I couldn't connect. I obtained the IP address
by doing an nslookup to an opendns server, but couldn't get
the forum with the ip address. I got an apache greeting page.
If the server houses more than one domain, the ip address isn't enough.
Anyway I put the opendns nameserver in my resolv.conf, so now I
can connect. I don't know how long Comcast will take to fix their nameservers. There is a major attack against unpatched name servers
right now, in case some were unaware.
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Thanks. That's almost identical to my experience. I got the apache greetig mentioning cPanrl.
Originally Posted by rcgreen 
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Problem solved. At least until the next exploit. And I got my awareness raised in the process.
Comcast appears to have addressed the recent DNS problem, but I'm still considering OpenDNS. Thanks again, guys, for doing what you do so well.
Peace.
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