Originally Posted by
Gertrude the Wombat
If you're trying to get to
http://www.xyz.com
(1) Type
ping
www.xyz.com
on the command line. What do you get?
(2) Type
tracert
www.xyz.com
on the command line. What do you get?
(3) Any explicit proxy configuration will be somewhere in your Internet settings. Is there any?
(4) Transparent proxy settings are not obvious from your own machine, you have to know how your ISP works ...
(5) ... which is why I was asking who the ISP is? 'Cos if it's NTL then broken transparent proxies are a favourite cause of the sort of thing you report.
Thanks for the help so far!
(1)
I managed this, and it said "Request timed out" 4 times, followed later by
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% Loss),
etc.
(2)
I did this one and got:
Tracing route to
www.myspace.com [***.***.**.**] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2911 ms 1565 ms 124 ms chrax6.optusnet.com.au [***.**.***.***]
2 123 ms 124 ms 123 ms rdl4-ge1-1.gw.optusnet.com.au [***.***.***.***]
3 138 ms 137 ms 137 ms mas1-ge4-3.gw.optusnet.com.au [***.***.***.***]
4 137 ms 124 ms 137 ms mas3-ge1.gw.optusnet.com.au [***.**.***.***]
5 288 ms 275 ms 274 ms ***.***.***.*
6 384 ms 302 ms 467 ms ***.***.***.***
7 288 ms 289 ms 274 ms **.**.***.**
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
(last two lines are repeated up until finish at 30)
(I also edited out any IP addresses, since I'm unsure if it was safe to include them.)
(3)
Not to my knowledge!
(5)
My internet service provider is optusnet.
Just to clarify, I'm the only one who uses this computer, and I can't access
www.imageshack.us either.
I hope you can help! (Sorry if this has posted multiple times, I've tried and this reply doesn't seem to show up)