Sonic01 Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 hi all, for some reason im not able to reach arnies from home, im on virgin media in the uk. at the mo im having to RDP to my computer at work and use the site from there! any ideas anyone? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yee245 Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 While I'm not sure if it's related to timing, but I know I haven't been able to access the forums for the past couple days because they seem to have been down. That might have been the issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sonic01 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 no, right now im accessing it through my work pc - if i try now from my home pc, it just doesnt work... i can even access it on my phone... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marlowe Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Out of interest, are you using Sky as your ISP? I know Galactica has had DNS issues with Sky recently. If so please confirm and I'll report it to Arnie. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sonic01 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 no, Virgin Media. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost Sandman Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 I have been having the same problem, at home and on my phone and I can't access, but I can at work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marlowe Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 Looking at your IPs and ISPs it must be a DNS issue. Is it definitely still an issue and not one caused by your trying to connect earlier today while the site was still down? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
White_Rabbit Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 what part of the country are you in ? I work for virgin media and will look on the engineers outage screens to see if I can find anything out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost Sandman Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 I am in Vegas, and this is the first time I have been able to access since friday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
White_Rabbit Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 well the forums have been down since then as the post on the news page says. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sonic01 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 i just tried flushing the dns on my local pc, no difference. i live in south london and work in central. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
White_Rabbit Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 ill have a look and see if there is any problems in that area and see what i can find out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
White_Rabbit Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 just checked and there is no problems in your area, the only problem is in scotland and thats tv related Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sonic01 Posted May 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 oh well... is there anything else i can do? I can send a tracert when i get home if you like... so frustrating Arnies is the site i spend the most time on Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kruck Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I made a post about this, before I noticed this one. I'm having the same problem. My postcode is YO62 6TR, (if that helps) and ISP is ADSL24. Haven't been able to access the forum all weekend at home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I think I know the problem, I can't get on the site from my blackberry or opera mini, I'm pretty sure that our new firewall is slightly pro/overactive and blocking what it considers to be suspicious traffic. At the moment that seems to include certain proxies and methods of accessing the server. It's an issues that's now on the nice small list of things to tweak. Try posting a traceroute to arniesairsoft.co.uk from your home IP address on here (hash out the last three numbers of your own IP if you want). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alirowe Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 (edited) I am having the same problem using Sky broadband. I have tried a traceroute and get 'unable to resolve target system name arniesairsoft.co.uk' I hope this helps in some way. I am happy to run other tests if requested. Cheers, Al. Edited May 10, 2010 by Alirowe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kruck Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 I am having the same problem using Sky broadband. I have tried a traceroute and get 'unable to resolve target system name arniesairsoft.co.uk' I hope this helps in some way. I am happy to run other tests if requested. Cheers, Al. I got the same, or something to that effect. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 The affected parties that can't get on are being blocked by the security firewall, to open it up I need the IPs of those affected. Just email/PM me or post the results from http://whatismyip.com/ Leave off last three digits if you're worried about security. I believe that at the moment virgin cable and sky are blocked. As soon as I know the affected IP ranges/zones I can have the firewall adjusted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kruck Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 Huh, I can get on now. Did you change anything in the past 2-3hrs? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
galactica Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 wooo! we're back! First time i've encountered a web server that blocked incoming http requests from the two of the largest ISPs in the UK. Is Arnie's now hosted from Kentucky or something? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Issues with ddos attacks, so some ip ranges were autoblocked Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sonic01 Posted May 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 same here, mine kicked in last night too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wingmann Posted May 21, 2010 Report Share Posted May 21, 2010 During this lask week I've been able to access the forums every other day. One day it works, the other it doesn't. Same with news frontpage. Has this been a general issue? I'm connecting from Spain and with at least three different providers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted May 21, 2010 Report Share Posted May 21, 2010 We were working on the server yesterday. There have been some ongoing issues, these are fixed for the moment Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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