Any Desktop Gurus out there? I can't get to certain websites exept via Proxies???

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    I can't get to two websites unless I use a Proxy... one is this site and the other is http://www.ezinearticles.com/

    I have two computers in my apartment - this desktop and my laptop. I can get to both sites on the laptop but my fiance usually uses that one and I use the desktop. I can reach them both via Proxy. Since the laptop can get to the sites and this machine can't, it is obviously this machine since everything else is common.

    Any ideas of what I should check?

    Thanks,
    Matt
     
    Voltec, Jan 19, 2008 IP
  2. kaung

    kaung Twitter @KaungKo

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    #2
    are the destop and laptop going throguh the same network? router?
    or are you using wireless card on laptop? same ISP?

    have you dony anything wrong with the sites?

    first to check if you've been ip banned.
     
    kaung, Jan 19, 2008 IP
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    try adding 4.2.2.1 as your alternate dns ip
     
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  4. Voltec

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    I was starting to think that I might be IP banned (although my accounts are fine at both sites and I haven't don't anything to deserve a ban).

    What is strange though is when I check my IP online, both the desktop and laptop display the same one (which is out of Gainesville although I am in Tampa). When I check their network properties though, then I show a 1 IP difference - which is nowhere close to what net pages show my IP is. That being said though, if I was IP banned, wouldn't it have to be by whatever a website showed my IP being? If both the laptop and the desktop show the same IP to the net, then it couldn't be that because the laptop can go directly to the sites, but the desktop cannot.

    Am I wrong in my thinking?

    Ez...
    I would try what you are suggesting, but I'm not sure how. When I check my IP settings, "Obtain DNS addresses automatically" is checked. If I added the IP you suggested as my secondary, I wouldn't know what to add for the primary DNS... lol

    Thanks,
    Matt

     
    Voltec, Jan 20, 2008 IP
  5. mikey1090

    mikey1090 Moderator Staff

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    what error message do you get? page cannot be.....etc. or has your PC been blocked from those sites?
     
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  6. zacdavis

    zacdavis Well-Known Member

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    It's your DNS, try opening you console, and typing in "tracert *webste*" Obviously put the real website in there, if any of the hops do not go through, try power cycling you modem or router. If that still does not work, promptly contact your ISP, and tell them.
     
    zacdavis, Jan 20, 2008 IP