Who has been experiencing dropouts?

[Kudrow]

Brady,

Got the site back by changing my dns servers as Toby suggested, but I'm not getting any email notifications. Any ideas for me to try?

Urgh. Thats a new one.

[Nurb608]

Damn it, didn't work turning off my filters either, oh well

[fx48.215]

Optus cable no problems

[Nurb608]

Urgh. Thats a new one.

Damn it, didn't work turning off my filters either, oh well

OK, changed while email address it sends to and getting all of them to that address now, looks like it's just my tpg address.

[guy 27]

For those of you who want to modify their hosts file, heres how:

If you are unsure or not confident about doing this - then DON'T do it. I won' take responsiblity for you doing it wrong.



For XP/Vista/7 users:

1. Go to C:\Windows\System\System32\Drivers\etc
2. Find the file called "hosts" and open with notepad
3. At the bottom, add 112.140.177.97 and opelaus.com (you can either just put a space between the IP and the hostname, or tab it across to line up with others alreayd in there (like localhost))
4. Save and close the file
5. Close your browsers and reopen

The result should look like this:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
112.140.177.97 opelaus.com

I did this yesterday and have still been getting drop outs. Went as far as resetting modem and computer. Drop outs not as frequent as they used to be though.