Penny Arcade Forums› Help / Advice Forum
The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.

Help me! New router and some sites don't load.

The CheeseThe Cheese Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Our old router (Linksys wr54whatever) blew up while we were on vacation and we've replaced it with an ASUS WL-500W which is almost working. We've set it up as best as we know how and luckily most of the options were the same as the Linksys so it was pretty easy to transfer knowledge from using that for years to the new one.

Problem is, even though I'm sure the DNS is set up correctly, only certain sites will load. It's split about 50-50. Wikipedia will load, for example, and Google, and evidently PA will load, but I can't get onto IMDB.

So, assuming I'm not a total dick and I set up the DNS properly, what could cause this?
And assuming I am a total dick, what did I do wrong?

The Cheese on

Posts

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Have you tried pinging IMDB? open up the command prompt and do so. If it finds an address to ping, but doesn't work, then you've got some kind of connectivity problem between you and them. If it doesn't then it is indeed a DNS issue. Have you tried using Open DNS servers?

    Tofystedeth on
    steam_sig.png
  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm not too knowledgable with routers, but my first router (Netgear) had some feature called Stateful Packet Inspection which seemed to prevent certain sites from loading up at all. Disabling that fixed my problem.

    Steev on
    My Steam profile
    My Backloggery
  • The CheeseThe Cheese Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Tofystedeth wrote: »
    Have you tried pinging IMDB? open up the command prompt and do so. If it finds an address to ping, but doesn't work, then you've got some kind of connectivity problem between you and them. If it doesn't then it is indeed a DNS issue. Have you tried using Open DNS servers?
    >ping imdb.com

    Pinging imdb.com [207.171.166.140] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 168.143.228.38: Destination net unreachable.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.

    Ping statistics for 207.171.166.140:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

    That's interesting to know, thanks. Does that tell me anything useful?

    EDIT: The router's firewall was fucking me up. I turned that off and everything's working.

    The Cheese on
Sign In or Register to comment.
Penny Arcade Forums› Help / Advice Forum