I'm doing a little research on a particular member's website. Stevin runs http://www.basher82.nl, a really great website about fallen allied soldiers in the Netherlands. He runs the website out of his home computer and he's been having some problems with people visiting his site. According to Stevin, More and more internet providers are block access to, what they call, un-identified servers like his. Unfortunately many providers see his type of server as a potential spam or DoS-attack risk. The number of visitors to his site has been steadily declining over the last year. I'd like as many of you as possible to visit http://www.basher82.nl and post here whether or not you can get through or if you get a "page not found" or "connection timeout" problem, which means you are blocked. I'd also like you to post where in the world you are, and what service you use to access the web so we can get a general idea of the blocking. Any and all help would be great. I'll start: Server Status: blocked "The connection has timed out" Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Service: Comcast Cable
Just logged on without incident from Massachusetts, U.S.A. And again just now - no problems. Service: Charter Cable JT [ 09. October 2006, 04:29 PM: Message edited by: jacobtowne ]
Thanks for the assistance gentlemen. Unfortunately, that's only 1 out of 4 that can get through. Keep them coming please!
I tried it from work and the site worked without problem. My router hub for work is the US Department of Justice in Washington DC.
Thanks for all the help gentlemen, I think we are starting to get a clearer picture of what's going on with Stevin's server. So the current results are: Otto: no jacobtowne: yes kerem: no Von Poop: no, then yes Fortune: yes Martin Bull: no Kai-Petri: yes Ali Morshead (work): yes Ali Morshead (home): yes TA152: yes Richard42: yes Za Rodinu: no Sloniksp: yes raj-rif: no T. A. Gardner: yes That means we have 9 people that can get through, 5 that can't, and 1 more who had trouble, then got through later. Not very good at all. Any one else taking a look would be helpful.
Bad news tried again today and all I get is page cannot be displayed, I shall try again latter on today.