Can no longer get to forums on desktop

Syngyne

I am sure this is probably something to do with my machine, but I am at a loss as to what is going on. Ever since the maintenance period when the new mobile style went in I have been unable to get to the forums on my desktop. In Chrome and Firefox(which I never browse the forums with) I keep getting redirected to pennyarcade.cl0.vanillaforums.com. In IE I just get a 404 trying to get to forums.penny-arcade.com. I've cleared all my cookies, etc, and can't hit the forums at all. I can get to the main site fine, though. I can also get to it fine on mobile.

Any ideas?

IcyLiquid

How technical are you? Can you open a command prompt and type: "ping forums.penny-arcade.com" and tell me what it says? That would help a lot.

Syngyne

It's getting replies from 66.216.68.64.

I've tried flushing the DNS cache, same issue persists.

Syngyne

Also, here's the tracert if it helps.

C:\Windows\system32>tracert forums.penny-arcade.com

Tracing route to www.cl4.vanilladev.com [66.216.68.64]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
  2    38 ms    24 ms    35 ms  cpe-70-123-112-1.tx.res.rr.com [70.123.112.1]
  3    12 ms    12 ms    24 ms  tge7-2.dllxtx5301h.texas.rr.com [70.125.219.25]

  4    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  tge0-9-0-10.dllbtxlb01r.texas.rr.com [24.175.38.
210]
  5    26 ms    11 ms    11 ms  agg10.dllbtxlb02r.texas.rr.com [24.175.49.7]
  6    19 ms    19 ms    31 ms  agg21.hstqtxl301r.texas.rr.com [24.175.49.8]
  7    21 ms    19 ms    20 ms  107.14.19.94
  8    26 ms    21 ms    21 ms  as-0-0.c0.den00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.3.33]
  9    34 ms    34 ms    31 ms  107.14.16.186
 10   457 ms     *        *     ae-2-70.ear1.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.83]
 11    35 ms    38 ms    34 ms  4.31.141.106
 12    35 ms    35 ms    40 ms  98.129.84.178
 13    24 ms    40 ms    24 ms  core5.dfw1.rackspace.net [74.205.108.27]
 14    27 ms    25 ms    25 ms  aggr305a-28-core5.dfw1.rackspace.net [67.192.56.
155]
 15    24 ms    25 ms    25 ms  66.216.68.64

IcyLiquid

The IP you should be getting is 192.237.151.133 which comes from the following CNAME chain:

forums.penny-arcade.com
IN CNAME pennyarcade.vanillaforums.com
IN CNAME vip.cl400.vanilladev.com
IN A 192.237.151.133

Maybe your ISP is caching it for longer than they should. At this point I can no longer help, you should call them and complain loudly.

Syngyne

Yeah, I figured it was something on this end, just not sure what. I'll warm up my hollerin' muscles. Thanks.

Syngyne

Update: it was OpenDNS that was caching. Switched over to Google's and it works fine.