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#1 2007-03-21 05:26:49

Michael Bloxham
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From: Auckland, New Zealand
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Re: Never been able to access space.com

I don't remember exactly when or why it started, but I haven't been able to access any of the Imaginova websites (imaginova.com, space.com, livescience.com) for over a year now.

My computer seems to refuse their existence. I've never had any trouble with others.

Anyone have an idea why?


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#2 2007-03-21 06:18:38

noosfractal
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Re: Never been able to access space.com

Your ISP doesn't provide a reverse DNS entry for your IP address.  That's fairly rare nowadays.  The Imaginova webservers might be configured to require it for some reason.  If you don't have the same problem when using a different ISP (say dialup instead of broadband) then that might be it.

If you use Internet Explorer, you could try clearing the various "temporary files" and cookie caches.  That seems to fix a lot of odd IE problems.  If you don't have the same problem with, say Firefox, then that might be it.

Otherwise try

tracert 207.73.219.100

from the command line (on Windows - probably traceroute if you have a Mac) to see if you have a path to www.space.com.  If you don't, then more than likely your ISP has been blocked for being the source of a hacker/spam/denial attack at some time in the past.  Ask them to get it cleared.


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#3 2007-03-21 10:30:02

Palomar
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Re: Never been able to access space.com

I don't remember exactly when or why it started, but I haven't been able to access any of the Imaginova websites (imaginova.com, space.com, livescience.com) for over a year now.

My computer seems to refuse their existence. I've never had any trouble with others.

Anyone have an idea why?

Sorry, no.  I'm still able to pull up space.com and livescience.com with zero trouble and no hitches ever.

Hopefully someone can help you troubleshoot the problem.  Good luck.


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#4 2007-03-23 07:02:07

RobS
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Re: Never been able to access space.com

I have a different problem with Space.com; it opens fine, but when I click on an article, my Internet Explorer crashes. The New York Times sometimes does that as well.

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