Link Test

Please can you test this link for me:

http://www.greyaliengames.co.uk

I get a stupid holding page not the proper page that this points to:

http://www.greyaliengames.com

yet it works fine for other people!

I have cleaned out my Internet cache (tools/options/delete files) but same result. Anything else I can do?

Thanks

Both links go to the same page for me. No problems.

If in doubt > Get a big hammer!

Same page but your counter seems to be counting *any* hits and not unique hits.

Both work, same page.

Maybe you're behind an ISP proxycache?

Thanks, so it seems to work for all except me, and it's my own site, how crap is that.

How can I track "unique" hits?

what the hell, it was only 18 hits this morning now it's > 1000 has someone been messing around? The counter works normally on my other pages?

[Edit] So how can I find out if I'm behind an ISP proxy cache? And what to do about it?

You need to either parse the logfiles, or use whatever statistics software your provider... provides, or you could do your own PHP/ASP SQL magic to save the originating IP address of your visitors to a database and run some reports against that.

You could just save a cookie on the user's machine that expires in a Day...

If the cookie is there, Do nothing, if not, add a hit and create the cookie to expire tomorrow.

DH, good idea, my counter is a cgi script, I'm not using the host's log files or anything.

>1000 it was only 33 when I looked last.

it's 1047 now, it's gone mad! [edit] I've knocked 1000 off.

Did you just buy the domain? It may take few days for DNS servers to refresh.

nawi: I'm thinking that's what it must be as I set it up on sunday.

Both links work for me, too.

I have no idea how to check it Grey Alien x) just wondering if that could be the reason. Some ISPs here use it and it's been giving problems like that for quite some time

Grey uses the same ISP as me so I can't see this being the problem.

I haven't tried on the wireless laptop yet, I'll do that later. They guys at work (1 mile away) can access the .co.uk

check this out:



weird hunh

works for me... from the other side of the pond... using IE something or the other...


--Mike

hmm stranger and stanger...

Both domains map to 80.168.77.164 for me. This is a simple DNS propagation issue - some DNS servers have the new IP, others still have the old IP. The answer is to wait up to 48 hours for the new data to propagate to all DNS servers.



Oh, nevermind what I just said then. If you're both using the same ISP then either a router or a computer between you and your ISP is incorrectly resolving that domain. Are you sure you didn't add a HOSTS entry on your computer, Grey? Maybe while you were initially developing your site and waiting for the domain name to propagate? If that isn't it, try resetting your machine and any routers you have.



Call them and ask.

haha call wanadoo, they know NOTHING!
my hosts file only contains "127.0.0.1 localhost" which is fine.

I'll wait a bit longer then make a stink (but to who?)

both worked for me, but that site is uglier than a bag full of squished puppies.

"bag full of squished puppies." Depends if you're Korean, your family is hungry and it's christmas.

Yeah it's just a place holder for future stuff.

The .co.uk one isn't working for me now - it definately was earlier, though. I get this message, instead of the page:

works for me

big10p: That's the stinker dude ... noooo ... it's getting worse!
[edit] OK it totally works now phew. Big10p another test?

Yep, both working again, now. :)

wooooooooo, I declare this thread closed.

Go to a site like http://www.whatismyip.com , and see if the IP returned is your own. If not, then you're behind a transparent proxy.

Typically nothing you can do about it though, other than switching ISP's.

hmm, well that site claims my IP address is in the range 84.67.xx.xx whereas ipconfig on the command line gives me 192.168.xx.xx (but that's for my network adapter). How do I find out my Internet connection IP?

the only way to know for absolutely certain is to look at the management interface for your modem, and see what it reports as the external WAN IP address. If you don't have access there, then you won't know for sure if the remote IP address you see is your own or a proxy.

You can try doing an nslookup on the IP address and see if it 'looks' like a proxyserver name or just a random user, but it'll be guesswork at that point.

My Wanadoo Livebox gives me the same IP as that site. An nslookup on the IP fails with "can't find nslookup: no response from server". Oh well.

The 'no response from server' could indicate that your ISP may not have a proper reverse DNS (IP -> Name) configured for the IP address -- a pretty common issue that most people won't really run into problems over, so easy corner to cut.

If your modem interface gives the same IP ass the whatismyip.com site, then most likely you're not behind a proxy.

thanks anyway, as my website works now I shan't worry too much.