Poly is unaccessible from some PCs

[Drogue]

Originally posted by MarkG
does www.ev1servers.net work for him?

Sorry about the delay, due to injury, I'm not at work, so haven't been able to get on to try it.

I can access that url at home, but still not 'Poly, unless I use Kass's advice (as I am now) and use a manual proxy.

I guess it's the ISP being idiots and blocking it then, so I'll get on to them to stop it.

Thanks for the help

[Maquiladora]

I have the exact opposite problem some of the time. Im on a 2 PC network both sharing cable through a router. If i havent visited a webpage for a while, say an hour or two, ive been playing a MP game say for that time or away from the PC altogether, I go to open a webpage and NONE open, but apolyton always does. Not one other website gets through. Whats happening? and why does only apolyton get through?

When i reboot this always fixes the problem, i can visit all pages again.

[Kuciwalker]

Your computer and Apolyton have fallen in love and Apolyton is jealous, so it gave you a virus blocking the other websites.

[Garth Vader]

Originally posted by Drogue

Sorry about the delay, due to injury, I'm not at work, so haven't been able to get on to try it.

I can access that url at home, but still not 'Poly, unless I use Kass's advice (as I am now) and use a manual proxy.

I guess it's the ISP being idiots and blocking it then, so I'll get on to them to stop it.

Thanks for the help

How do you use a manual proxy?

I can access that url from work but not poly. A friend can't access some PS2 forum which the traceroute also goes through ev1servers.net.

I have tried both cable lines from work, outside the firewall, but neither can access poly (mainpage, or forums)

[Kuciwalker]

In firefox, tools->options. It's the "connection settings" button.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Ming


If you can't turn it off, how do you don know it's just not something else on the machine causing the problem

That's true your majesty I am not 100% sure it is a pop up blocker. Now seeing as others like Drogue have trouble connecting because of some new broadband... I don't know could be it. I'll try and do a "tracert" next time I'm there although it all sounds like chinese to me.

[Garth Vader]

Wow, posting from work again and all it took was setting up a proxy.

Still don't know why the problem, I have the same ISP here and at home and everything was fine from home.

[Kuciwalker]

nm

[Harovan]

Since about four weeks, I have very rare (at most 5% of the cases) access to Apolyton from my computer at home, while my access from work is near 100%. I did some research on this matter, but could not find a reason. I don't have any trouble to access other websites and internet fora.

The problem is, the http requests time out with no response whatsoever.

First I thought, that it is a firewall issue, since some of the spam ad banners use ports other than 80 or 443, which I have allowed for HTTP traffic (all others being blocked). But this can not be the reason, since the problem persists, when I turn my firewall off. Besides, I don't have any troubles with other forum sites with banner ads.

It can't be a popup blocker issue either, since it doesn't matter, if I use the Internet Explorer 6 (no blocker) or Mozilla Firefox (has blocker, but I didn't touch the default setting, so I don't even know if it's on or off).

Finally, it can't be a DNS issue, since all other domain names are resolved properly. I run my own name server and never had trouble resolving addresses.

My guess is now, that a large part of the address range my provider uses, is blocked by Apolyton itself. I have a dynamical IP address at home, as opposed to work, where my address is fixed. My question is, can this be the reason? I can't think of another one. It's the same, every day. I access from work at 5:30pm - Apolyton is there. I access from home ten minutes later - Apolyton is gone.

Please?

I posted the above in another thread, but it was shut down by one of the site's friendly moderators and I was directed to this thread with the information, that besides tons of spam I would find some useful discussion here. I found the spam easily, but unfortunately could not extract anything out of the discussion, that would be of any use to solve my problem. It seems I have the same problem, that Drogue has (or had? is it solved meanwhile?).

I get scolded by my PBEM partners, because I don't post the infamous "turn sent" anymore, but what can I do, I tend to play at home and not at work, so I can't post it. And I have troubles setting games up for others (which I am sometimes asked to do), because I can't access the discussion threads with the data I need to set the games up, and so on. It's pretty annoying.

And what is the saddest of all: It is only Apolyton. I use to post freely at other gaming sites with no problems whatsoever. What can be the problem?

[Ming]

The good news is... if people continue to spam this thread... I'll toast them... so maybe the discussion can get back to helping people who are having problems accessing this site... and NOT +1's... because Ming Math is about to occur in this thread...

+1's = (PCR + restriction)

I can't make this message any clearer than that.

[MarkG]

PM me the IP that you have when you cant access the site

[Harovan]

I will mail it, since PMing would imply, that I have access, or I'd have to wait till tomorrow. I suppose your email is your name at site address.

[MarkG]

or use this

http://apolyton.net/about/contact.php

[Harovan]

Today it doesn't work again (posting this from work). I PMd you the IP address.

[MarkG]

access problems should be solved

if not, please post the first two numbers of your IP address