help-home wifi-cant open forum webpage

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since 2 days i cant open the forum page through home wifi(doesnt matter if i use ipad, phone or computer)
any browser i use says "pate not found"

tried resetting the router, cleaned cookies and browser cahce...didnt help.

any ideas?
 
Not sure what type of Internet Service you have... But If you have a modem and a router...you can try powering both of them down...then,
Power up the Modem first wait 5 min
Then Power up the Router...
 
I get that every two days or so. I just hit refresh 5-8 in rapid succession and that seems to do the trick. Only got that problem with this forum. I have tried erasing cookies and buffers to no avail.

It must be a serverside problem.
 
I had strange issues with jumbo frames enabled. Check that in your network settings and routers.


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It might be a iptables firewall on the forum server or an inbuilt firewall in the vbulletin application that has your home IP blocked due to too many failed login attempts or something.

Is your home connection a static IP? If not sure, quick test it by going to http://whatismyip.com - make a note of the IP it reports back. Then pull the power from the router - wait a few minutes then power back up and check your IP again - if it's the same IP as previously then it's quite likely to be static and a firewall on the forum server side might be blocking you. You should then contact support or a forum mod to pass on your IP to get it checked and if found removed from any IP blacklist.

Another test - you could use a proxy server to access the forum from home EG https://www.proxysite.com/ - if you get the forum.fractalaudio.com site to load using a US proxy server then it's further evidence that your home IP is probably blacklisted.

Cliff mentioned a day or 2 ago that the current server hosting the forum is struggling - so all sorts of weirdness can be expected until they get the planned upgrade done in the near future.
 
Can you ping the IP of the forum? If yes, then it is most likely a DNS issue. To check you can try and change the DNS on your workstation (or router) to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (google DNS).
 
The forums for me the past few days has been even snappier than usual, Not sure if they have started the Migration or if it's just dumb luck but....
 
i think my home IP is banned, i can load the page using US proxy server.

maxdown said:
It might be a iptables firewall on the forum server or an inbuilt firewall in the vbulletin application that has your home IP blocked due to too many failed login attempts or something.

Is your home connection a static IP? If not sure, quick test it by going to http://whatismyip.com - make a note of the IP it reports back. Then pull the power from the router - wait a few minutes then power back up and check your IP again - if it's the same IP as previously then it's quite likely to be static and a firewall on the forum server side might be blocking you. You should then contact support or a forum mod to pass on your IP to get it checked and if found removed from any IP blacklist.

Another test - you could use a proxy server to access the forum from home EG https://www.proxysite.com/ - if you get the forum.fractalaudio.com site to load using a US proxy server then it's further evidence that your home IP is probably blacklisted.

Cliff mentioned a day or 2 ago that the current server hosting the forum is struggling - so all sorts of weirdness can be expected until they get the planned upgrade done in the near future.
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