VideoSift Unavailable
Here is an interesting story I thought I'd share with my fellow sifters. Several days ago I found a great video to sift and went to VS only to find the website unavailable. I thought maybe the site database was being worked on. But after a whole day without VS and it still being unavailable, I started to doubt that was the reason. So I called another VS friend and he said he'd been able to access the site no problem during the time I thought it was down.
Now mind you all other internet sites were working fine for me. That is until I got a myspace reminder about an update to a friends blog. When I tried to access the page, it timed out. I thought surely myspace is not down. So now there are 2 sites I cannot access. Then I went to try and access business email hosted on godaddy... no luck.
After trying no less than 10 fixes, ranging from installing different browsers, to a different OS and running all kinds of malware, trojan, anti virus scans. There was still no luck.
Time to break down and call ATT UVerse tech support. they couldn't ping any of those sites from my gateway and tried to do it from several of my neighbors routers also with no luck. so they elevated the problem. They said it was probably somethign with the DNS servers and they would look into it and call me back. Today VS is working, but still no phone call to let me know specifically what the problem was.
I'll report back once I hear what the problem and fix was
After trying no less than 10 fixes, ranging from installing different browsers, to a different OS and running all kinds of malware, trojan, anti virus scans. There was still no luck.
Time to break down and call ATT UVerse tech support. they couldn't ping any of those sites from my gateway and tried to do it from several of my neighbors routers also with no luck. so they elevated the problem. They said it was probably somethign with the DNS servers and they would look into it and call me back. Today VS is working, but still no phone call to let me know specifically what the problem was.
I'll report back once I hear what the problem and fix was
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dystopianfuturetodayBack before I updated my router firmware, there'd be times when VS would be the only site that worked. I'm not sure what would cause that to happen, very strange. I think it probably has to do with the fact that computers are powered by evil sorcerers.
ant>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Back before I updated my router firmware, there'd be times when VS would be the only site that worked. I'm not sure what would cause that to happen, very strange. I think it probably has to do with the fact that computers are powered by evil sorcerers.
Computers are weird.
joedirtHello? Why are you depending on awful greedy corps for your DNS.
(First of all there is possibility you have a virus)
K, I actually turn off windows DNS service because dns resolution is fast enough and more problems caused by crappy caching. You do know the command to flush DNS cache if you are having problems, don't you????
What you need to do is... go into your router config and don't set the nameservers by DHCP. Manually set the dns to opendns.com servers.
https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/
SlipperyPeteDid you click the link three times? That's what it takes; DNS(orcerers) are magic.
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