Tech help needed with router and VM superhub

viper357 · 14-07-2012, 08:10

Hi everyone, hope someone can help me.

I'm on virgin broadband 60mb with their superhub, however I have been using that as a modem and have had my tp-link router plugged in because the superhubs signal is so weak upstairs. Anyway, I own a website which was moved to a different server yesterday and the website was given a different IP address, so after the move everything was fine and I was browsing the site fine. But now this morning I tried to go onto my website and it refused to load, I tried IE, FF and Chrome but none of them would load the website, all other sites work fine. I tried flushing my DNS, I tried using opendns, I tried using that webcache setting for virgin but nothing worked. Eventually I unplugged my tp-link router and plugged my laptop back into the superhub and low and behold now I can access my site. So overnight, something has mysteriously happened on my router that it will not let me access just this one site. Does anybody know why this would happen or how I can fix it? I love my router and I need signal upstairs so I really need to figure this out. My router is flashed with dd-wrt and I also use the mac clone setting. This is the router I have TP-Link TL-WR1043ND

Many Thanks
Dean

**Kymmy** · 14-07-2012, 08:14

Just put the ip/fqdn in your hosts file until the propagation has completed...or as you're using a 3rd party router either use google/opendns name servers though it might not have propagated to them either..

viper357 · 14-07-2012, 08:24

Thanks, I'll look up how to do that, so do you think it is purely because of propagation? Would that make two different routers on the same line act differently? Although I did notice my IP address changed when I plugged the superhub back in. Perhaps I'll just wait a day or two and then try again with my tp-link router?

**Kymmy** · 14-07-2012, 08:47

Propagation can take 72 hours to complete although VM normally have the details within 24 hours.. A reboot is always better than a dns flush as not everything for whatever reason is flushed (

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Just edit

Code:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

and put in your domain name (including the www) and the IP if you want to work on the site.. but remember that not everyone will see it before the dns data has propagated..

viper357 · 14-07-2012, 08:52

Ok, thanks for the help.