I can't get to a certain site from work

[SmoochyTX]

There's a certain blog I like go to (not giving it out) from time to time at work when there's some downtime. But ever since Monday, I can't access this site at work. I can access it at home just fine.

We're a 'smallish' company and there is no site blocking or filtering here at work. The IT guy says nobody else has told him of any problems reaching any other sites. He asked me if I tried reaching it using our back up ISP and that doesn't work either. He said there's no reason why either one of our ISPs should be blocking it.

When I try pinging the site, it fails. Reverse lookups fail. It's as if the site doesn't exist from here. Yet I know it's working because the site continues to be updated and comments are left on posts.

What could be going on?

Edit - I'm going to have my friend contact her host and see what's going on. Thanks for all of the help everybody.

 

[Flammable]

that site blocked you?

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: Flammable
that site blocked you?

Impossible. OK - you need more info. It's a friend of mine's site and she hasn't blocked any IPs.

 

[nakedfrog]

Try using 4.2.2.2 as your DNS server and see if that works?

 

[NuroMancer]

Do you use your ISP for DNS or does the company run the DNS?

Try this go home, get the IP address of the site, type it into your browser at work.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Try using 4.2.2.2 as your DNS server and see if that works?

Have no idea how to go about that.

Originally posted by: NuroMancer
Do you use your ISP for DNS or does the company run the DNS?

Try this go home, get the IP address of the site, type it into your browser at work.

No, we don't use our ISPs for DNS.

And yeah, I was going to try that at home and then try connecting to the IP directly at work in the morning.

This is weird though.

 

[BigJ]

ipconfig /flushdns

 

[NuroMancer]

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Try using 4.2.2.2 as your DNS server and see if that works?

Have no idea how to go about that.

Originally posted by: NuroMancer
Do you use your ISP for DNS or does the company run the DNS?

Try this go home, get the IP address of the site, type it into your browser at work.

No, we don't use our ISPs for DNS.

And yeah, I was going to try that at home and then try connecting to the IP directly at work in the morning.

This is weird though.

MY guess is something is wrong with your/your companies DNS record for the website. You can try BigJ's suggestion but I doubt its your computer.

You can configure a manual dns in you TCP/IP properties.

 

[BigJ]

To test if it's your/your company's DNS:

Go here:
http://www.selfseo.com/find_ip_address_of_a_website.php

Find the IP address. Put IP address in address bar.

 

[SmoochyTX]

BigJ, YHPM.