Specific site won't load...?


  1. Posts : 142
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
       #1

    Specific site won't load...?


    Hey folks!

    I have a very odd issue that I cannot seem to figure out how to solve....memory tells me I think have had this problem before with this website about 2 years ago, but I cannot remember for the life of me how I solved it.

    Basically, the issue is this: I am an avid rally fan and usually check World Rally Championship every day. However, a few days ago I noticed that I would get a "The Connection Was Reset" error in Firefox 4.0.1 when trying to connect to it. The first time, I just thought maybe the site was down. The second day, I thought it was odd so I opened up IE9 and tried it there....it will not load in IE9 either. Then I thought, this is really odd, and tried it on my netbook and then and subsequently the other netbook and 2 other desktops in our house. The three desktops are connected to the net through our router via DHCP. The netbooks are on the same router via wireless DHCP. I tried restarting and resetting the router in case that was the issue, no go - internet works flawlessly on all the other computers and my desktop EXCEPT for that ONE site on my desktop.

    On both netbooks and the other 2 desktops, World Rally Championship loaded perfectly, so it must be an issue with my PC. I tried clearing the caches and cookies for both browsers, and I restarted this machine twice to no avail.

    Does anybody have any suggestions?
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  2. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #2

    I cannot access World Rally Championship with IE9, Firefox, or Opera. http://isitup.org/ says it is up. Was unable to access it through a web proxy as well. A Guy
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  3. Posts : 2,292
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #3

    Works fine over here: IE9, FF4, Safari 4, Maxthon 3, Opera 11, Chrome 12
    Could it be that the site really was down, even for a bit?
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  4. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #4

    Still getting the Connection closed by remote server error myself. A Guy
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  5. Posts : 142
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    I got it working by flushing my DNS cache just a few minutes ago. Pretty sure it wasn't down Gornot, although I suppose that was possible. I kept checking it on the other 4 comps in our house as I tried to get it to work on mine and it always worked on them so it was definitely something to do with my computer, and probably A Guy's computer as well.

    A Guy; try flushing the DNS cache on your machine in question - open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdns" without the quotes.
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  6. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #6

    Thanks, but since I have no other issues, I'm good. Glad you got it sorted, and thanks for sharing the fix. A Guy
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