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Smoke

Smoke

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A lot of us like to visit Justin's Deception.net Forums. Lately, they have not been working properly for most of us.

I have just been in touch with Adeno who walked me through a "fix".

He mentioned my DNS was pointing to the wrong IP address?

Following his instructions, I have now been able to reach that website.

His instructions:

Edit my "hosts" file and add the following line, " 69.56.190.194 www.deception.net

That seems to fix whatever went wrong. :Q

Give it a try and see if it works for you. 🙂
 
even simpler than that would be "ipconfig /flushdns"

that way you don't have to go hacking a permanent solution to a dynamic system (sorry, the hosts file way just offends me as a programmer 🙂)
 
Where might we find this host file?
The ipconfig/flushdns failed to solve the problem for me. still can't connect
 
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\

Same file you edit to patch up the security hole in 3.03
 
Since some of you are doing the mod to your hosts file, you might as well do the Seti Fix for the 3.03 exploitation:

66.28.250.122 shserver2.ssl.berkeley.edu
 
yep, the IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS and IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS worked for me. Which IS preferable over using the HOSTS file.

YMMV.

😀
 
So i just add these 2 lines,
ipconfig/flushdns and ipconfig/registerdns in the HOSTS file ?
 
I have tried both methods and still can't get it. I keep getting an "update your dns" message. 🙁
 
i just tried and I can reach it
I flushed the dns then I added the line in the host file and I've been able to get there every since,
 
I did a search for host. when the search is done look for the Host ect folder. Open and add the lines

ipconfig/flushdns
ipconfig/registerdns

then up to file and save
 
I tried the flush and register deal, but that didn't fix it. 🙁

The host file editing shall have to wait for later, when I feel like logging in as Admin for some routine maintenance. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: lane42
I did a search for host. when the search is done look for the Host ect folder. Open and add the lines

ipconfig/flushdns
ipconfig/registerdns

then up to file and save
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That's not right there... If you want to do the flush and register commands do them from a command line (start | run | cmd). In there type ipconfig /flushdns - you'll see a message about successfully flushing DNS resolver cache. After that type ipconfig/registerdns - you'll see another message about registration of DNS records initiated.

EDIT: You'll probably want to take those lines you added out of the hosts file as well.
 
I don't know, thats the way i did it and it seems to work fine. It won't screw anything up like this will it ?.
 
Originally posted by: lane42
I don't know, thats the way i did it and it seems to work fine. It won't screw anything up like this will it ?.
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Were you ever having any troubles? Adding those lines wouldn't actually do anything, they just give you an invalid entry in your hosts file. ipconfig is a program that must be executed, hosts is a listing of translations from ip addresses to domain names
 
Were you ever having any troubles
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Yes, i couldn't get onto D.net Fourms. After i put the 2 entrys in the Host file i got on, even posted in the Help section.

127.0.0.1 was in there also.
 
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