www.purebasic.com "no access?"

[bart]

hey guys,
anyone having trouble getting on to www.purebasic.com?
or is it my system no apparrent trouble getting to any other sites ,must be down? someone give it a go and post back


thanks ,
bart

[Dare2]

Beat me to it.

I don't think it is your system, I haven't been able to connect there for about a day.

[GreenGiant]

I can load the site fine, so I dont think it can be a problem with the site. Try putting a question mark after the address in your browser (or just click this link) http://www.purebasic.com?

[PB]

> Try putting a question mark after the address in your browser

What does that do? (BTW, the site loads fine for me).

[bart]

MMMM,
wierd i can get on with 98 , but not with xp(sp1)
for about a day


yeh wat does the "?" do ?
it didnt do it for me
at least im not the only one having trouble
its not my browser either cause even the
smart update cant hook up
by the way im in australia
maybe its some overseas glitch?? thing

Thanks for the feedback,
bart

[PB]

> i can get on with 98 , but not with xp(sp1)
> by the way im in australia

I'm in Australia and it loads fine for me.

[Dare2]

Also in Australia, still no joy.

I'm with bigpond which, I hear, has been blacklisted from time to time in some places. Could this be it?

[PB]

> I'm with bigpond which, I hear, has been blacklisted from time to time in
> some places. Could this be it?

Wouldn't surprise me. BigPond doesn't exactly have a great reputation for
being a good ISP (no offense). I'm with TPG and everything's working fine.

I just checked http://www.bigpond.com/help/servicestat ... efault.asp
and it shows connection/timeouts for NSW BigPond customers, and that they're
working on a fix... so that's likely the problem.

[Dare2]

Wouldn't surprise me. BigPond doesn't exactly have a great reputation for being a good ISP (no offense).

True. Sometimes flies, sometimes dies. Their help-desk people are hardened vets ( and very good - but then they have to be )

lol. And this is Telstra. Go figure.

If they fired ziggy they could hire enough decent techs to make a difference.

If they fired the board they could put in some really good insfrastructure and gear.

And if they stopped trying to be a player in the sharemarkets and remembered what they were meant to be doing ...

/rant

[bart]

AHHHH , me iss bigpond also

www.purebasic is all go maybe bigpond reads this forum,lol

i might give them a friendly message next time

bart

[GreenGiant]

I was told that putting a question mark after a web address makes your browser check one of the main DNS servers rather than a local one. So if a webpage changes servers (or there's some other problem with it resolving the server) then it'll take a while for your local DNS to update, but putting a question mark after the address will sort of make it look harder. But the fact that none of you have heard it maked me doubt it maybe I was being gullible.

[Dare2]

I thought that the ? began a querystring and therefore it also forced a refresh, so that the browser went to the server to retrieve the page, regardless of other considerations, instead of retrieving it from the cache area offline.

Otherwise things like viewtopic.php?t=12355 might get taken from cache and therefore not show the latest posts!

[Fangbeast]

Also in Australia, still no joy.

I'm with bigpond which, I hear, has been blacklisted from time to time in some places. Could this be it?

Im in Australia too and with Optus. Either the forum itself had problems or the backbone was down but as all can see, it's working now.