projecteq website down?

[eq4me]

I would recommend to give it a try with another Computer/Notebook or Instant Linux CD. If you still get the phenomenon it might be your providers nameservers.
Did you check what your default nameserver thinks the IP of www.projecteq.net is?

If you dont have any problems under Linux or with another Computer you should look into the 'hosts' file see if you find any static entries. If there are none set one for www.projecteq.net to the right IP(66.28.184.13) and see what happens.

[Angelox]

Here's something else you can try and will help even if it's not the problem
tcp optimizer;
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...7&postcount=25

Also, rojadruid mentioned you had spyware maybe because the ping was too slow?
maybe it's just not resolving fast enough, and comes back with that error?
try this;
go to you hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
edit with notepad and add the domains;

66.28.184.13 www.projecteq.net
66.28.184.13 projecteq.net

that should speed things up

[Teppen]

After reading everyones replies I tried Angelox's host insertions and it works now, able to login, post, etc, and able to visit all parts of projecteq.net through address bar.

I update my host file religiously, use this site because they update frequently:
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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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but I always have this as is, as downloaded so all entries are:
127.0.0.1 somesite
etc....
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I guess for some reason my pc was still trying to load up the old ip address instead of the new one. opened HOSTS file and did a find www.projecteq.net but it didnt find any string that matched in there, however adding those two lines to the HOSTS file fixed my problem.

Anyways all I want to say is....

Woot! I scream, you scream, we all scream Woot!

[eq4me]

Originally Posted by Teppen

I update my host file religiously, use this site because they update frequently:
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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

I am really sorry to say but this is ... very unwise. Go and get rid of all host entrys that are not in your orivate network. That is what DNS is for!
If you have problems with the DNS service of your provider go and complain about it. Putting official IPs into the host file can only be a temporary measure.

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by eq4me

I am really sorry to say but this is ... very unwise. Go and get rid of all host entrys that are not in your orivate network. That is what DNS is for!

Host file works fine, you just have to remember to update it if the site-ip changes, and not use for dynamic-ip sites.

[eq4me]

Originally Posted by Angelox

Host file works fine, you just have to remember to update it if the site-ip changes, ...

I am sorry, but this defies all logic.

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by eq4me

I am sorry, but this defies all logic.

Well, I'm not going to harp on this much longer, but when internet started there was no dns, just IP-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_...ory_of_the_DNS
In a nutshell, the guy who started dns did because he had trouble remembering the ip address to the sites. So he devised a system which provided names for the ip numbers. Everyone else profited from this idea but him; he's still "broke".
Anyways, it's very simple: take away the "name", and use the number - that will by-pass all the name resolving, and takes you straight to the site.

[Angelox]

Heh! , I was starting to get worried there ...
Even if you didn't need it, it still will make things go faster,as it has no need to resolve.

If you had just www.projecteq.net in the host, and no ip, then that was your delay in the ping. What might have been happening is, windows first tried the host file, and since it was null, might have tried an ip of "0" first. then went and resolved elsewhere.