Computer GEEKS - Help (Jor? Chet?)

**Thew** · July 18th, 2005, 04:00 AM

how would i get a list of DNS servers
what is DNS?

**0193081** · July 18th, 2005, 04:12 AM

The same thing happened to a bunch of us canucks with spawn.com a while back.

**Thew** · July 18th, 2005, 04:12 AM

it happened to me too

**thatchetguy** · July 18th, 2005, 10:12 AM

It's happened to me, but in a way I was able to pinpoint the problem quickly. Sometimes certain hubs of the internet go down (it's not really all one network, but a NETWORK of networks). When key areas go down, you can't get to one site from the wrong network (similar to trying to get to a store when a key intersection is closed for repairs).

I know it was happening to me on the spawn site because I could trace my request using tracert and the DNS number (don't worry about the details) and could see I was going to Washington DC and then stopping. But when using AOL, I could get through. I called my ISP and alerted them to the problem, and it was fixed in a few hours... it's just surprising things can stay down like that for a while until someone complains.

So my advice: try a different ISP (netzero, for example). Otherwise, just wait, it WILL come back up again as soon as somone notices.

**Thew** · July 18th, 2005, 03:20 PM

so this has been going on for a while now, on a site i used to visit frequently

all of a sudden it wont load the website, and keep getting a Page Cannot Be found, when i was able to visit the site weeks ago...

and i know that it isn't down because other people can acess it

why does and is this happening?

oh and the website...
www.newsarama.com

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ July 18, 2005 12:21 AM: Message edited by: Thew ]</font>