uk. geocities / geocities sites

Anyone having problems opening up uk.geocities and www.geocities.com
sites over the last few days??

 

No. Try:
http://uk.geocities.yahoo.com/
http://geocities.yahoo.com/

 

Mike -

Have you been having any difficulty opening the public side of your
excellent uk.geocities site?

Mine have been mega-sluggish for the last few days, to the point that
they just won't open. My www.geocities.com US sites are almost as bad.
I can get into the edit suites without problem.

It's just accessing the public URLs.

At first I wondered if it was connected to mydoom, but I don't know...

Any thoughts appreciated


T.

 

Have you tried the tips on my page?
Also, check your firewall rules are not interfering, and
if your firewall allows/blocks DNS, clear it's cache.

 

I have checked out the tips on your page and everything seems OK. Like
I say, it's only the public URLs of the geocities empire that are the
problem. Everything else is hunky-dory.

My only firewall is the XP ICF. It's status hasn't changed since I
bought this computer over 2 years ago.

I had a friend check out my geocities sites through his box. He
checked them in both IE and Net7. This is what he came back with "I
tried both URLs on IE and after 70 seconds the window came showing the
usual "The page cannot be displayed" etc. When I tried them both on
Netscape nothing happened at all after 80 or so minutes."

So, no further forward. I've e-mailed both geocities and my service
provider to see if they can shed any light.

 

Ha-ha, after five days, my problem's solved!

I narrowed it down to one conclusion: it must be my ISP (friends going
through ntl couldn't access geocities, all others could. Strange...)

So, I phoned them. Seems that they have a duff proxy server looking
after our area. Their helpdesk gave me alternate settings for (on IE)
Tools / Internet Options / Connections / LAN Settings, forcing the
connection through another server. Et voila - instantly OK (actually,
faster than before).

Thanks again for all the suggestions. I hope that my experience adds
to the old
knowledge base!

 

Thanks for the feedback, Trevor.

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