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Originally posted by: GeoffS
The ProSafe shows this for the DNS entries:

Domain Name Server
68.168.96.162
68.168.96.165

which come from my isp... I don't see anything about caching... *sigh*
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Oh, just kick the damn thing!!
Works for me !!!!
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Your protocol stack may be out of order.

Turn of DHCP and put the 168.1.0.2 addy in and then after a re-boot go ahead and out it back to DHCP, that should fix the stack automatically for you.
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Turn off the DHCP on my PC or the router? PC I'm guessing...
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Your protocol stack may be out of order.

Turn of DHCP and put the 168.1.0.2 addy in and then after a re-boot go ahead and out it back to DHCP, that should fix the stack automatically for you.
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Turn off the DHCP on my PC or the router? PC I'm guessing...
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You techie people annoy the sh!t out of me 😀
Just letting you know 😀
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Yes, that's cause I'm too stupid 😀 😀
48 posts to go, and counting 😀
 
lol... thanks Andy! lol...

Okay... should have done this ages ago... tried the same tracert, etc from a different PC on the same LAN and I get the same result, so it seems to be something with the router. So... I unplugged it for 30 seconds, plugged it in again, and that didn't fix anything.

Now I'm going to plug the cable modem directly into one of the PCs... If I don't come back something bad happened! lol...
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
lol... thanks Andy! lol...

Okay... should have done this ages ago... tried the same tracert, etc from a different PC on the same LAN and I get the same result, so it seems to be something with the router. So... I unplugged it for 30 seconds, plugged it in again, and that didn't fix anything.

Now I'm going to plug the cable modem directly into one of the PCs... If I don't come back something bad happened! lol...
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Sorry, Geoff, got a bit carried away there 😀 😀
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Still haven't a clue what you're talking about 😀 😀
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
lol... thanks Andy! lol...

Okay... should have done this ages ago... tried the same tracert, etc from a different PC on the same LAN and I get the same result, so it seems to be something with the router. So... I unplugged it for 30 seconds, plugged it in again, and that didn't fix anything.

Now I'm going to plug the cable modem directly into one of the PCs... If I don't come back something bad happened! lol...
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You're welcome, oh boy, you'ld better pray I don't win the national lottery,
All you Yanks ((Canadians)) are in trouble if I do 😀
 
It's likely the router has something resident in it's ARP cache. Leaving it disconnected for a while should clear that out.

If that fails, you could always do a factory reset on the ah heck 🙂
 
OOOOH! Progress! Now I'm getting the same dead website message everyone else is and I can tracert the url! All I did was disconnect the cable modem from the router while I tried to get the PC hooked up directly to the internet (didn't work... was getting some funky IP address)... but all seems well at the moment... just need to figure out why the hosting isn't serving up the pages.

Now for the REALLY great news.... this particular site uses a MySQL database. That database resides on my server here in the basement. That means I've figured out how to him my MySQL database from outside my server, which means I can retain tons of STATS HISTORY and not worry about having the hosting service charge me oodles of money! That makes me happy in several ways 😀 Time to start the rework/rewrite of the stats to accomodate BOINC :thumbsup:

Thanks to everyone for all the great help... you're the best! Even you Andy! :beer:
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
OOOOH! Progress! Now I'm getting the same dead website message everyone else is and I can tracert the url! All I did was disconnect the cable modem from the router while I tried to get the PC hooked up directly to the internet (didn't work... was getting some funky IP address)... but all seems well at the moment... just need to figure out why the hosting isn't serving up the pages.

Now for the REALLY great news.... this particular site uses a MySQL database. That database resides on my server here in the basement. That means I've figured out how to him my MySQL database from outside my server, which means I can retain tons of STATS HISTORY and not worry about having the hosting service charge me oodles of money! That makes me happy in several ways 😀 Time to start the rework/rewrite of the stats to accomodate BOINC :thumbsup:

Thanks to everyone for all the great help... you're the best! Even you Andy! :beer:
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Cheekey ****** 😀 😀

 
Okey, doke, something is putting in *** etc in place of what I'm saying.
Now, I think anything I say is pretty tame, so why the *** things???
Any MODS around here?????
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
lol... it was the suggestion to get up and get a beer that did the trick I think! :beer:
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You are under my control, bank account # please???
ah heck, it wouldn't work over here 🙁
 
Geoffs, I had trouble trying to use dhcp on my computer with dhcp on the router, seems you can't run both :Q

Most routers wont operate right with another dhcp server.

:beer:
 
Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
Geoffs, I had trouble trying to use dhcp on my computer with dhcp on the router, seems you can't run both :Q

Most routers wont operate right with another dhcp server.

:beer:
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Nope... I agree... but I wasn't doing that... there was something funky with the router... every other page/site I pinged/loaded/tracert-ed worked fine except that one.... seems once I unplugged the router from the internet connection for a bit, it reset something, and now it's happy 🙂
 
Reminds me of the time I hade my wireless router hooked up to my internet router through the WAN port... doesn't like that either... lol 🙂
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
Geoffs, I had trouble trying to use dhcp on my computer with dhcp on the router, seems you can't run both :Q

Most routers wont operate right with another dhcp server.

:beer:
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Nope... I agree... but I wasn't doing that... there was something funky with the router... every other page/site I pinged/loaded/tracert-ed worked fine except that one.... seems once I unplugged the router from the internet connection for a bit, it reset something, and now it's happy 🙂
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YEP, that was the ARP cache on the router. It maintains a local lookup table so it knew the local address of the domain. When you changed the domain to a different provider, the router retained the local address.

So, whenever you tried to browse the page or ping it, it was trying to use a local address. Turning off the router for an extended period of time clears the cache.

Glad you got to the bottom of it and learned some other valuable stuff along the way 😀
 
Cool! Funny thing is that I didn't turn off the router... just moved the RJ45 from the cable modem directly to the PC instead of through the router.

But definately some great advice and lessons learned! Excellent group of TeAm-mates! :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: Wolfsraider
Geoffs, I had trouble trying to use dhcp on my computer with dhcp on the router, seems you can't run both :Q

Most routers wont operate right with another dhcp server.

:beer:
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It is part of the RFC that you have one AND ONLY one DHCP server for a network.

 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
Cool! Funny thing is that I didn't turn off the router... just moved the RJ45 from the cable modem directly to the PC instead of through the router.

But definately some great advice and lessons learned! Excellent group of TeAm-mates! :thumbsup:
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Awesome. Looks like every base was covered 😀
 
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