can't get to a site (please help) - quicktopic.com

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LarryLook

I often go to www.quicktopic.com for their forums. My friends and I have a
forum there. Its a well known site and reputable I've heard. I cant get
there anymore. Ive tried disabling firewalls, turning off antivirus
(mcaffee), checked internet settings/security. uninstalled anti adware
programs. I cant ping it and reach it with command prompt. I cant do it on
any of my 4 computers! Yet friends, can family can get there with no
problem. comcast and belkin (router) support couldnt help me. I use IE but
downloaded firefox, but it wont get there. I cant get to the cached version
with Yahoo or google search for it. The belkin router has security and
firewall turned off. Any suggestions! Please help me.
 
LarryLook said:
I often go to www.quicktopic.com for their forums. My friends and I have a
forum there. Its a well known site and reputable I've heard. I cant get
there anymore. Ive tried disabling firewalls, turning off antivirus
(mcaffee), checked internet settings/security. uninstalled anti adware
programs. I cant ping it and reach it with command prompt. I cant do it on
any of my 4 computers! Yet friends, can family can get there with no
problem. comcast and belkin (router) support couldnt help me. I use IE but
downloaded firefox, but it wont get there. I cant get to the cached version
with Yahoo or google search for it. The belkin router has security and
firewall turned off. Any suggestions! Please help me.
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works for me, go to start/find/files n folders> enter 'hosts' (its in
win/system32/drivers/etc i think) open this file with notepad and
search for the site in there, if its listed just delete it, if not,
open a cmd prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns

because its happening for all your comps i would say its your router,
has it got a static ip? possibly your blacklisted?

Flamer.
 
I dont think the site blacklists anyone. I dont see it in hosts. Belkin
router page says its dynamic, but when I asked comcast a year ago I think
they said something like " we are dynamic, but we dont change, but we may
change in future, so put in dynamic". Does that sound possible? What does
the flush/dns do? - will try it later
 
LarryLook said:
I dont think the site blacklists anyone. I dont see it in hosts. Belkin
router page says its dynamic, but when I asked comcast a year ago I think
they said something like " we are dynamic, but we dont change, but we may
change in future, so put in dynamic". Does that sound possible? What does
the flush/dns do? - will try it later
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the dns points a name (like blah.com) to an ip (like 192.168.1.1)..
your computer caches these to save time, and some programs like
software firewalls and anti-spyware programs cache dns entries too, if
the website has changed address its possible your still trying to reach
the old ip and not the new one, I resolve the domain to 209.68.19.130
try ping quicktopic.com from a cmd prompt and see if it tries the same
ip address, try ping the ip address as well and see if that works.

Flamer.
 
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