Is my website being blocked?

[bstock]

Reboot & try again. If you still get the message, uninstall winpcap, reinstall it, reboot then try again.

Done that.

Same result I'm afraid

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by bstock

Done that.

Same result I'm afraid

Hmmm, I can only guess that your NIC isn't supported by winpcap. If you know what it is, see if it's listed here...

[bstock]

Success of sorts!

Was connecting wirelessly so tried wired and got the following which does not seem to be any help either.

By the way I'm still able to access my website


Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\DOCUME~1\BRIAN>tracetcp 80.82.140.240

Tracing route to 80.82.140.240 [cpanel4.uk.othellotech.net] on port 80
Over a maximum of 30 hops.
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace Complete.

C:\DOCUME~1\BRIAN>

[Cobbydaler]

It may be trying the wrong interface.

Do tracetcp -l (that's lowercase L) to list the available interfaces.

Then tracetcp 80.82.140.240 - i n

where n is the number reported for your wired NIC from the -l command

[bstock]

Not having much luck

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\DOCUME~1\BRIAN>tracetcp -l
-l is not a valid command option.

C:\DOCUME~1\BRIAN>

[Cobbydaler]

Sorry, they seem to have removed that option on the latest version. I've downloaded it & am in XP now so can see what's going on. Try disabling your wireless NIC in network connections then try again.

[bstock]

Its actually a USB wireless adapter,tried again anyway as you suggested but sadly with same results - timed out on each of the 30 hops.

[Cobbydaler]

Well, I'm out of suggestions I'm afraid. I've disabled my wireless NIC, gone wired into my router & I get:

tracetcp 80.82.140.240

Tracing route to 80.82.140.240 [cpanel4.uk.othellotech.net] on port 80
Over a maximum of 30 hops.
1       4 ms    4 ms    4 ms    192.168.11.1
2       12 ms   12 ms   31 ms   10.252.4.1
3       17 ms   17 ms   15 ms   80.5.164.209    [oldh-t2cam1-b-v120.inet.ntl.com]
4       27 ms   35 ms   16 ms   62.252.192.173
5       13 ms   15 ms   15 ms   213.105.242.245 [man-bb-b-as0-0.inet.ntl.com]
6       25 ms   20 ms   20 ms   62.253.185.138  [win-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com]
7       26 ms   39 ms   28 ms   212.43.162.194
8       20 ms   28 ms   20 ms   62.253.184.6    [tele-ic-2-as0-0.inet.ntl.com]
9       26 ms   23 ms   21 ms   212.250.14.114
10      25 ms   21 ms   19 ms   80.82.140.41    [transit1.as29527.net]
11      23 ms   19 ms   23 ms   80.82.140.48    [gateway2.as29527.net]
12      Destination Reached in 22 ms. Connection established to 80.82.140.240
Trace Complete.

In fact I can even use tracert to get there

tracert 80.82.140.240

Tracing route to cpanel4.uk.othellotech.net [80.82.140.240]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.11.1
  2     7 ms     8 ms     7 ms  10.252.4.1
  3     9 ms     9 ms     8 ms  oldh-t2cam1-b-v120.inet.ntl.com [80.5.164.209]
  4     9 ms     9 ms     8 ms  62.252.192.173
  5     9 ms     9 ms    10 ms  man-bb-b-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.242.245]
  6    17 ms    15 ms    17 ms  win-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.138]
  7    20 ms    17 ms    15 ms  212.43.162.194
  8     *       15 ms    19 ms  tele-ic-2-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.6]
  9    20 ms    18 ms    20 ms  212.250.14.114
 10    16 ms    17 ms    17 ms  transit1.as29527.net [80.82.140.41]
 11    18 ms    16 ms    20 ms  gateway1.as29527.net [80.82.140.47]
 12    15 ms    16 ms    17 ms  cpanel4.uk.othellotech.net [80.82.140.240]

Trace complete.

Sorry

[bstock]

Not to worry, many thanks for your assistance and patience.

If I ever discover what is wrong I'll tack it to the end of this thread.

Thanks Again

--
Brian

[Cobbydaler]

What does tracert give you now that the site is working?

[bstock]

Same result but the last time we tried tracert the website was accessible.

[bstock]

Right it might now be sorted ????

I suspected that I was being forced through a dodgy proxy somehow, anyway what I did was enter webcache.virginmedia.com and port 8080 into my firefox settings and hey presto my site re-appeared.

Just to test things I loaded IE (without the proxy setting) and nothing.

So although everything pointed to me not having a proxy, it looks as though there was one intercepting somehow (don't ask me how I'm no techie)

I've also got the opendns settings as my name server and that is also working in conjuction with the virgin proxy (thought it might not)

Obviously I'd rather have no proxy but this will do nicely for now, as long as it works!!

[bstock]

Ahh the solution does work for viewing my websites BUT uploading files to them is still sporadic, as is accessing my cpanel accounts using my browser.

Given that the addition of webcache.virginmedia.com as my proxy server solved my normal viewing difficulties can anyone suggest anything to solve the other anomolies (apart from moving away from virgin, which is crossing my mind ever more frequently as time goes by)