Can't access a particular website

[Apey]

Having troubles accessing a University-related page from my Home computer and am running out of ideas how to fix it...

- I can access the website on other computers and nobody else seems to be having this issue, but cannot access it on other web browsers on my computer
- I have tried: restarting/resetting the modem, clearing cache, cookies & temporary internet files, and a few other small things based on google searches
- From what I can tell, my firewall isn't blocking the website.
- The website initially loads fine but comes up with an "unable to connect" message when I try to log in.

I've sent in a ticket/request to the University IT Service but they usually only bother with on-campus issues so figured I'd ask for more suggestions here.

Any ideas?

 

[bazza]

check /etc/hosts

if that looks all right try ping and/or a DNS lookup

also try and ping your DNS server or gateway

you could also telnet directly to the IP address and port that you are trying to connect to

 

[Misanthrope]

Nationwide outage to external sites due to a Telstra balls-up.

Should be remedied now.

 

[Timmah]

This was posted well before the outage Mis, I think this is an isolated problem he's having

 

[bazza]

you could use tcpdump to analyse your network traffic

 

[Apey]

check /etc/hosts

if that looks all right try ping and/or a DNS lookup

also try and ping your DNS server or gateway

you could also telnet directly to the IP address and port that you are trying to connect to

I tried the etc/hosts & also the DNS lookup earlier and it hasn't resolved the issue

don't think i've tried the latter two yet but will shortly, cheers.

Nationwide outage to external sites due to a Telstra balls-up.

Should be remedied now.

yeah separate issue that happened while I was trying to solve this one, thought I'd f**ked something up further :lol:

FTR, it's been like this for a week or two - the site works fine initially but when I log in it says "unable to connect".