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Tim,

The site opened just fine, and I was easily able to access the site's pages.

Phil O

http://www.bec.ac

This is the web page that my wife runs. downornot.com says it is up and I can access it from work. However, I haven't been able to access it from home for three days now, no matter what computer or browser I use. I know that some other people can access it, but some others, who need it, cannot. There doesn't seem to be any systematic reason.

I've googled around, and have found that this has happened with other people. Strangely, people suddenly being locked out of their own web page. Nobody has come up with a firm conclusion. The most common suggestion is that it is a problem with the ISP's DNS server. However, I'm using the same open-DNS server both at home and at work. Another suggestion is that the host server has for some reason blocked our IP. That sounds plausible, but then why would other people be blocked too?

I wonder if y'all could see if you can access that web site. You don't have to tell me if you can access it (unless you want to tell my wife what a brilliant person she is). Just let me know if you CAN'T access it. I'll see if I can find some common denominator.

thanks

TimK.

No problem it's up. See if you can ping the website IP.

Yes it is possible the host blocked your IP but as you say others cannot access it - to have multiple locations blocked is unusual.

Have you reported it to your ISP ad asked them to check? Also turn off your fiber/adsl box and router leave them off for a few mins and turn back on. Somtimes the routing table of the router will get screwed up.

T

Works fine.

I'd also like to know how 4.1 works. I read on a blog that it was supposed to work a lot better with the 3GS. Can we now tether with this new OS? I bought a 3GS off a friend after making sure that my Sim card from my old 3G worked, which it did.  So now I carry around my old 3G with OS 3.01 for when I want to tether. I just pop my sim from the 3GS to the old 3G, am I doing this needlessly? Can I just bin the old 3G?

No problem.

Works fine Linux/Firefox, Chromium and Opera...

http://www.bec.ac

This is the web page that my wife runs. downornot.com says it is up and I can access it from work. However, I haven't been able to access it from home for three days now, no matter what computer or browser I use. I know that some other people can access it, but some others, who need it, cannot. There doesn't seem to be any systematic reason.

I've googled around, and have found that this has happened with other people. Strangely, people suddenly being locked out of their own web page. Nobody has come up with a firm conclusion. The most common suggestion is that it is a problem with the ISP's DNS server. However, I'm using the same open-DNS server both at home and at work. Another suggestion is that the host server has for some reason blocked our IP. That sounds plausible, but then why would other people be blocked too?

I wonder if y'all could see if you can access that web site. You don't have to tell me if you can access it (unless you want to tell my wife what a brilliant person she is). Just let me know if you CAN'T access it. I'll see if I can find some common denominator.

thanks

TimK.

BTW I had a LAN hub branching to another LAN hub and they BOTH needed reseting. Not just the router.
SO I suspect the problem was with the hubs.

SPV

Yes I'm happy to use iOS 4.x but not happy to use the iPhone4G yet. Will wait a little longer for some tweaks then will get iPhone 4G for Japan and use my 3G for overseas with unlock and overseas sim.

T

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Moon or some such cutting through saturns rings ?

Sorry! The link has changed : http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100802.html

Yes, but the moon (Prometheus) doesn't actually cut the rings: it's going around faster than the dust is and on a less circular orbit than the rings, so it sashays in and out getting just close enough to attract a different batch of dust each time around Saturn.  That pulls the dust into triangular bands with cleared spaces between them. But this dust is now on a more elliptical course, so it too starts to orbit faster than the ring, causing the bands to spread out. I imagine the temporary acceleration toward Prometheus also causes the dust to move to an elliptical orbit and dip in and out like Prometheus does, but maybe the dust around it damps that out. Sorry, beyond my maths skills. :-)

SPV