Censorship - US blocking websites

[muldoon]

That error is not from a site being blocked, it's a dns failure.  It means your computer could not turn english.pravda.ru into 209.50.249.218.  Likely an ISP issue, and it should rectify itself after a few hours once time to live expires on your negative hit record.  A block would look more like a timeout error as traffic does not actually go into the remote site.  I wouldnt blame the government yet, it looks like pure technology failure to me. 

[StinkerBell]

glenn, do you use wireless a home?

I have firefox too. Discovered that a majority of my issues was two fold. The wireless kept switching channels and firefox or my computer could not handle it. But the big one was "guard interval" was too short on the router causing general wireless problems in the house (chronic disconnects).

Hope this helps!

Do you use a mac?

[glenn kangiser]

That error is not from a site being blocked, it's a dns failure.  It means your computer could not turn english.pravda.ru into 209.50.249.218.  Likely an ISP issue, and it should rectify itself after a few hours once time to live expires on your negative hit record.  A block would look more like a timeout error as traffic does not actually go into the remote site.  I wouldnt blame the government yet, it looks like pure technology failure to me. 

Took a few days but was straight last night --- gone again today.

[glenn kangiser]

glenn, do you use wireless a home?

I have firefox too. Discovered that a majority of my issues was two fold. The wireless kept switching channels and firefox or my computer could not handle it. But the big one was "guard interval" was too short on the router causing general wireless problems in the house (chronic disconnects).

Hope this helps!

Do you use a mac?

Yup - wireless here.  I never have disconnects that I know of.  Firefox seems to load up -- start hogging memory - losing video - losing sound - loading up the processor to where the fan is running all of the time. I have to shut it down and restart to get memory back down and things working again.

I could try it wired and see if that makes a difference - bit of a pain though.  I sit in a chair with this mass of spaghetti piled around the side already - OK so its wires that look like spaghetti.

[StinkerBell]

Try setting your wireless to a single channel. That helped me.

[glenn kangiser]

I'll try to find the book on it -

[NetHog]

Glen, if IP addresses of these sites got changed, then that could result in the behavior you was seeing.

If it happens again, open the "Command" window, and type:

C:\> ipconfig /flushdns

[glenn kangiser]

Odd that it is only happening to the two sites from Russia out of 30 tabs.  One of them fairly commonly go offline every few months.

Tried that - get a Windows cannot find 'C:\>'

[muldoon]

glen,
click start -> run.  in the little box that opens, type in cmd and hit enter.

this opens a black box with c:\> in it.  from there type ipconfig /flushdns and hit enter.  close and re-open firefox.  it may correct the problem. 

If that does not fix it, put this in next.  just copy and paste it into the black box as is. 

C:\>echo 209.50.249.218 english.pravda.ru >> c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Again, close and re-open firefox and try again.

[glenn kangiser]

Tried all of that - flush worked OK but didn't fix it.

Second one - got access denied

[MountainDon]

So does the same thing happen with Sassy when she uses her computer there at home?  Or how about a neighbor/friend trying theirs on your dsl line. Just to help and nerrow it down to the machine or the feed.

[glenn kangiser]

She is also blocked out unless she uses the proxy.

This one gets lost once in a while -- people from all over the world reply on it but it is based in Russia.

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-index.php

This one is normally always there but now I only get it through proxy.

http://english.pravda.ru/

I tried Opera and IE but they don't work either.

[StinkerBell]

Is it possible you down loaded a viruses from the website ?   

[glenn kangiser]

Hey Stink - missed part of your question --- A Mac --- sometimes if I get by McDonald's but the special sauce sometimes drips in my PC so I try to avoid it, not to mention the inevitable bloat that follows in about a half hour.

I'm virus free, Stink --- just had a checkup.   (I use protection).


AVG

[MountainDon]

Those both work for me. Have you asked your ISP? How about you trying the sites using somebody else's connection as a test.

[glenn kangiser]

Weird - they are both back up now ---

[StinkerBell]

User Error ? lol

[StinkerBell]

User Error ? lol

lol

[glenn kangiser]

OHHHHHH __ that's cheating.

NO -I'm pretty good --- and ---it's gone again.