Internet woes

[Anthony Flack]

Perhaps someone here can give me some advice as to what might be happening here.

I appear to be blocked from a particular forum (it appears as a page-not-found). It's working for everyone else. Further research indicates that I am, in fact, blocked from all of invisionfree.com. Have been for a couple of days.

For the same amount of time, I haven't been able to connect with my mail server, either. But the rest of the internet, as far as I can tell, works just fine.

I updated AVG and did a scan today; it turned up clean.

Something fishy? Or weird, hopefully temporary problem at my ISP?

[svero]

Could be lots of things. Maybe your ip is banned for spamming (someone else in your isp say) or your country is blocked etc... Or it may just be a routing problem. Do a tracert to the site and see where it gets stopped.

[oNyx]

Could be a DNS problem aswell. If you have a 24/7 connection disconnect once and reconnect... eventually you'll get another DNS server then.

If you have a router and use win2k or xp you can also try disabling the dns service (because the router already cares about that).

[Jim Buck]

The past week, I have been unable to access www.cnn.com from home. I also see I can't access TurboSquid recently either (are they still up?). And my ICQ client has been rather hit-n-miss as well though go.icq.com works perfectly fine. All of these problems are not present from work.

[Anthony Flack]

In the end, after turning my modem off and on again several times it sorted it out. Thanks all - never had this problem before.