can someone else check something for me?

[TaylorD]

http://www.7host.com/

this is where I do my hosting, but for some reason, when I try to access it from my computer, it sends me to a folder on my computer? (it appears in web form, with a linked list to all of the files in a particular folder on my computer?


http://7host.com/

this lets me access the site, but when i try to login it doesnt work.



what I want to know is if www.7host.com takes anyone else to the real site, or if it lists files (on their computer or mine?)

finally, how could this have happened, and how can I fix it?

 

[ndee]

works for me. And the page is really really slow, I wouldn't host there.

 

[TaylorD]

see, thats the weird thing. my hosting is fine, fast, etc. the company is based in italy. it is dirt cheap, and I've had it for a year or so with zero problems.

visualroute of 7host.com shows atlanta, but visual route of my site shows miami. I dont understand why theyd host my site on better servers than their own.

also, a visualroute of www.7host.com appears to point to 127.0.0.1 - which I assume is my problem... how do I fix it?

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: ndee
works for me. And the page is really really slow, I wouldn't host there.

loads up pretty much instantly for me (in NYC).

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: TaylorD
see, thats the weird thing. my hosting is fine, fast, etc. the company is based in italy. it is dirt cheap, and I've had it for a year or so with zero problems.

visualroute of 7host.com shows italy, but visual route of my site shows miami. I dont understand why theyd host my site on better servers than their own.

also, a visualroute of <a href="http://www.7host.com">www.7host.com</a> appears to point to 127.0.0.1 - which I assume is my problem... how do I fix it?

chech your hosts file in system32/etc/driver or something like that.

 

[morkinva]

Originally posted by: TaylorD
<a href="http://www.7host.com/">http://www.7host.com/</A>

It knows all my files ! hehe - how do they do that?

 

[TaylorD]

i know they dont have all my files

im just trying to figure out why that name is sending me back to my computer, and why, particularly, it is sending me to one folder on my computer

additionally, if i punch up my IP on my local network (192.168.123.107) it shows the same listing of files

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: TaylorD
also, a visualroute of <a href="http://www.7host.com">www.7host.com</A> appears to point to 127.0.0.1 - which I assume is my problem... how do I fix it?

something , probably your hosts file is resolving the name to your own box (127.0.0.1 is your loopback address, ie your own box)
use the search to find "hosts" and open it with notepad and remove the line that is similar to

127.0.0.1 http://www.7host.com

 

[morkinva]

yeh mine is showing me my kazaa directory of shared files

 

[TaylorD]

mine also, why the hell is that???

 

[FoBoT]

your name resolution is pointing at your own box and something (kaaza? i don't use it, or some trojan maybe? ) is serving that directory up via http

 

[morkinva]

I confirm fobots hosts file theory, mine has a 7host.com mapped to 127.0.0.1 -- but this is harmless, right? I don't use 7host.com so I'm leaving mine in the hosts file.

 

[RossMAN]

http://7host.com/ works for me but http://www.7host.com/ doesn't ... however the latter doesn't bring up any files on my computer either.

 

[TaylorD]

it looks like some sort of software that I have installed has nailed 7host.com as a "# Adservers and other crappy sites:" (thats what it said in my HOSTS file.

it routes all of them to 127.0.0.1 so that they wont load. interesting. Anyone know what software that might be? Ad- aware? Spybot? Maybe Kazaa Lite?


<EDIT>edit
morkinva, are you using kazaa lite?

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: morkinva
I confirm fobots hosts file theory, mine has a 7host.com mapped to 127.0.0.1 -- but this is harmless, right? I don't use 7host.com so I'm leaving mine in the hosts file.

it isn't harmless or harmful, it just determines where your PC/browser will take you when it tries to resolve the name, ie if you put 7host.com into your browser, it will always check the hosts file first, if it is mapped to an ip that isn't where that server really is, that is where your browser will go

so if you want to see yourself instead of the real 7host.com site, then leave it

if you want to see the real server in miami or where ever , then you need to remove that entry

the hosts file is always resolved before DNS is queried

 

[helloedchen]

err...both load up to the same page for me. not too slow either.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: TaylorD
it looks like some sort of software that I have installed has nailed 7host.com as a "# Adservers and other crappy sites:" (thats what it said in my HOSTS file.

it routes all of them to 127.0.0.1 so that they wont load. interesting. Anyone know what software that might be? Ad- aware? Spybot? Maybe Kazaa Lite?


<EDIT>edit
morkinva, are you using kazaa lite?

that is a common method to defeat spam/banners etc, to map the offending servers ip address to yourself, so that the enemy stuff is disregarded. i know some people do it manually, i didn't know any of the "anti-spam/banner/ad" programs used it also

 

[morkinva]

morkinva, are you using kazaa lite?

Ya, but I do remember adding their recommended 'bad' sites to my hosts file - I don't recall there being a program that did this automatically.

Thanx fobot!

 

[TaylorD]

i dont think I ever did it manually, so I dont really know how this happened....

I still dont really understand why 127.0.0.1 displays my kazaa files.... I understand that it routes back to myself, but why the kazaa files?

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: TaylorD
i dont think I ever did it manually, so I dont really know how this happened....

I still dont really understand why 127.0.0.1 displays my kazaa files.... I understand that it routes back to myself, but why the kazaa files?

well there has to be something listening to port 80 (or whatever port you are trying to connect to) on your machine. I guess kazaa uses this port for something (I don't know, I've never used it).