cannot access forums from Verizon DSL anymore

[VirtualLarry]

Unable to access forums or www.anandtech.com, from my Verizon DSL.

Was browsing the forums earlier today, and someone linked to www.anandtech.com, and that page didn't load. I didn't think much of it, but then I went out, and when I returned, forums.anandtech.com wasn't loading for me either.

I shut down my laptop, turned off my DSL modem, unplugged my router, waited ten seconds, then I turned my DSL modem back on, waited for it to sync, then I plugged in my (DD-WRT) router, and then I turned my laptop back on.

I still couldn't access www.anandtech.com and forums.anandtech.com.

So, fearing I was IPbanned for no known reason (worried my account was hacked while I was gone), I drove to my friend's house that has Comcast. I had also called another friend in that same town that was on Comcast, and he COULD access forums.anandtech.com. So the site wasn't down.

So I cleared my cookies, and tried www.anandtech.com on Comcast. It loaded. So I tried forums.anandtech.com, and it loaded too. I tried to click on VirtualLarry and then "Show recent posts", but then it prompted me to login. Fearing the worst, I logged in, and I didn't see any new posts not by me, so it appears that my account was not hacked.

So what's the deal? Why can't I access AT forums from my house?

Tracing route to www.anandtech.com [208.65.201.105]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.2.1]
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms dslrouter [192.168.1.1]
3 27 ms 30 ms 26 ms 10.9.72.1
4 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms P4-2.BSTNMA-LCR-01.verizon-gni.net [130.81.33.202]
5 25 ms 25 ms 26 ms so-7-0-0-0.BOS-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.164]
6 29 ms 24 ms 26 ms ge-4-1-0-0.BOS-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.17.61]
7 56 ms 30 ms 30 ms so-7-2-0-0.NY5030-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.19.66]
8 33 ms 31 ms 31 ms so-3-3-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.17.15]
9 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms so-7-0-0-0.PEER-RTR1.NWK80.verizon-gni.net [130.81.17.159]
10 32 ms 33 ms 33 ms 130.81.14.42
11 33 ms 33 ms 32 ms ae0-60g.cr1.ewr1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.94.37]
12 139 ms * 124 ms xe-0-1-0.cr1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.89]
13 124 ms 123 ms 125 ms vl74.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.31.190]
14 * 124 ms 123 ms r1.vadc1.eicomm.net [69.31.30.218]
15 123 ms 123 ms 124 ms 208.65.201.105

Trace complete.

96.237.40.65 - my IP at the time.

Edit: I should mention that I had NO TROUBLE accessing OTHER web sites.

 

[Qbah]

I just managed to have the site and forums load - was "down" for me most of the evening... And I'm from Denmark. Asked a few friends and they had time-out errors too, so I figured the servers are down or something...

 

[Qbah]

I just managed to have the site and forums load - was "down" for me most of the evening... And I'm from Denmark. Asked a few friends and they had time-out errors too, so I figured the servers are down or something... I could access other sites from my computer too. Just AT and ATF were unavailable.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, I still can't access forums.anandtech.com from home, but I can access via www.atforums.mobi. That's good news.

 

[VirtualLarry]

My NAS didn't want to work right anymore with Windows 7, so I figured that since something bad was happening, that something good would happen too, so I checked the forums, and now I can access them again.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

AT is down for a few minutes at a time literally several times a day at the moment, making troubleshooting difficult.