render-blender Posted April 5, 2004 Posted April 5, 2004 I signed up over the weekend and have had a VERY positive experience thus far. I am new to site creation and am just dragging through teaching myself for a home business. With the support of your site I managed to create my first home page at www.render-blender.com fairly quickly and painlessly. However, I have a wierd problem, I can view this site fine from everywhere except my house. To clarify, I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 Router and as long as I am going through that my site comes up as cannot be displayed. If I bypass the router, it works fine. This is the only site I am aware of this problem. I can access the main TCH sites (and everywhere else) just fine. I am not sure if this is a Linksys problem or if my lack of experience left something out of my webpage to "authenticate" it or something. Any thoughts or am I just going crazy? Thanks in advance, Tony Rock Sign Quote
kaseytraeger Posted April 5, 2004 Posted April 5, 2004 Tony, This is a strange problem, and one that I've never heard of before. However, took a quick look at your souce code, and here's what I see: ><html> <head> <title>Render Blender, LLC</title> <meta name="generator" content="Namo WebEditor v5.0"> </head> Compare this to my standard code: ><!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>The Village Pantry :: Home</title> <meta http-equiv="content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> <meta http-equiv="content-Language" content="en-us" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> </head> Honestly, I don't really see anything in here that would cause your router to reject your page. However, in the interests of science, perhaps you can try swapping your <html> line with my <!doctype> and <html xlmns ...> line. Also, try adding the line <meta http-equiv="content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted April 5, 2004 Posted April 5, 2004 Welcome to the family, render-blender! Have you tried accessing the site using the IP numerical address given in your welcome email? Something like: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~yourcpanelname Since you say you have just signed up over the weekend it could be a domain propogation issue. I can see your site file from here. Quote
render-blender Posted April 5, 2004 Author Posted April 5, 2004 Thank you both for such a fast reply. This is truly a strange problem, maybe time for a new router. I am able to hit the site by using the IP numerical, just not the name server. This is driving me crazy. Oh well at least I'm learning. Thumbs Up Quote
TCH-Rob Posted April 5, 2004 Posted April 5, 2004 I really doubt it is your router. You bought your domain name on the second. It can take up to 72 hours for every name server to update its records to reflect the name. This is why IP works and not name. You are accessing a different name server through your connection at home than you are elsewhere. Give it a day longer and everything should fall into place, murphys law states your connection will be the las to see your site. Quote
render-blender Posted April 5, 2004 Author Posted April 5, 2004 I will wait and again thank you. My only confusion is that I can hit it at home if I bypass the router, it only fails while the router is in line. Much wierdness. Tony Quote
render-blender Posted April 6, 2004 Author Posted April 6, 2004 Rob, you were absolutely right, it started working mid evening. I still don't understand it but now I don't care. Now if I can just figure out how to add a guest book. Thanks to all, your great, Tony Rock Sign Rock Sign Quote
TCH-Don Posted April 6, 2004 Posted April 6, 2004 Yea! Tony, that is always the longest wait, for your own ISp to update their name servers. The advanced guestbook is in the cgi-center, have fun! Quote
ThumpAZ Posted April 6, 2004 Posted April 6, 2004 In your router's configuration you can either select the name servers or let them be assigned by the DHCP server of your ISP. I am betting that you have the latter selected. With this, your ISP can be using multiple name servers and some have already updated, while others haven't. Your statement that bypassing the router let you view the site supports this even more. This is because your computer's MAC address was authenticated to the system and assigned a primary name server that was least busy/loaded at the time, while the MAC ID on your router was authenticated some time ago and has been using the same name servers for some time. Once those servers were finally updated, you were able to view the site at the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). Hence, nothing is wrong with your system or hardware... your ISP simply staggers their DNS refresh so as not to incur a disruption of service... common practice for an ISP. Simple rule of Murphy, as stated earlier... your link will be the last to be updated. Quote
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