wont find a changed server foir the voc

[vaughanjames]

hi all i'm a newbie so be gentle with me lol.
Ive had blueyonder/virgin for years no problem with the broadband.
I'm a member of the Volvo owners club gb and they apparantly have changed providers and since then my comp wont even find the site at all it just times out,below is what i got back from the head honcho there

We have found that some people have had problems since we moved to
a new server with a new service provider. I was not aware that
blueyonder was affected

can anyone help please

[Chris]

Exactly how long ago did the club switch providers? It can take up to a week for DNS records to catch up. Your computer relies on Virgin's DNS servers to tell it where to find the Volvo club website. It may simply be that Virgin's servers haven't yet recorded the new location of the servers the club is now using.

[vaughanjames]

thanks for that but it was over 2 weeks ago i had trouble

[FairyFairy]

I don't know if this help you.

Its a link to the Volvo Forum .... someone there might have some info about the VOC - there is some stuff about registering at the top of the front page.

http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/

There is a link to the VOC at the very top of the page - (just checking the link and saw that!!!)

[pip08456]

Try clearing your browser cache

[vaughanjames]

ok thanks both i have the http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/ already and it wont find it .i'll try clearing the cache

---------- Post added at 13:40 ---------- Previous post was at 13:12 ----------

ive cleared the cache,browsing history and cookies tried this again http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/
and it still times out,i might add i'm registered and a fully paid up member,it will find all the other hits when googling for volvo owners club,ive tried it with firefox ver 3.5.6 and explorer ver 8 both up to date on updates

[Peter_]

Works fine for me, you may need to use a proxy to access the site so try this link http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34773822-post18.html

[Eambo]

Out of interest, try this:

1) Press the 'windows key' + r on your keyboard
2) In the 'run' box that pops up, type in 'cmd' (Without quotes) and press enter
3) You should now get a black command prompt. In this type 'ping volvoforums.org.uk'
4) Take note of the results and let us know
5) Now try: ping 91.204.208.245 (That's the IP I'm given when pinging those forums)

Let us know the results. Particularly in the first one, let me know the IP it's trying to ping (It'll say: Pinging volvoforums.org.uk [xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] x's being numbers for the IP.

We can see if it's a problem with your DNS or not here.

[vaughanjames]

thanks to moldova that has worked a treat .
below is the ping results its all gobbeldygook to me lol

[Eambo]

thanks to moldova that has worked a treat .
below is the ping results its all gobbeldygook to me lol

That's very interesting, it's resolving the IP okay, so it's not a DNS issue. Not sure what's going on here, maybe Moldova or someone else can shed some light on this =-P So a proxy works okay for you?

[vaughanjames]

can you please tell me if i can enter the proxy details on explorer and firefox and leave them like it and still have access to all my favourites etc ?

[Peter_]

can you please tell me if i can enter the proxy details on explorer and firefox and leave them like it and still have access to all my favourites etc ?
Should work fine.

[vaughanjames]

thanks very much to all of you its working great now

[vaughanjames]

hi again all still working ok but this maybe of interest to you ,i rand the dns tools and this is the result
I have now registered my location


Connection Address 94.169.xxx.xxx (xxx-king8-0-0-custxx.perr.cable.virginmedia.com) Check for common open ports
Browser Port 1136
City www.hostip.info (http://www.hostip.info), the project which supplies our geolocation data, doesn't have a record of your IP address.

We'd be happy people if you visited their site and told them.
County / State Unknown
Country Unknown

[Chris]

I've removed a little of the precise detail about your connection from your post - it's safer that way. ;)

[vaughanjames]

oh ok thank you i guess we cant be careful enough

its also on another post as well but i cant edit it

[Peter_]

oh ok thank you i guess we cant be careful enough

its also on another post as well but i cant edit it
The should be a report post link on the forum you have posted it on so click it.;)