please can someone help me. i can obviously access the forum but if i try to connect to the homepage it doesnt allow me and my internet connection times out. anyone else have this issue? please can u help me

 

cheers

Are you referring to the Tip.It homepage or the RuneScape homepage?

that would help. the tip.it homepage

any ideas?

If you are running windows, open up the command prompt and type the following.

 

ping tip.it /n 5

 

Let me know what it comes back with.

reply from 208.43.227.148: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=48

I am having problems connecting to the homepage too.

 

Request timed out. *5

 

Ping statistics: Packets sent = 5, Received = 0, Lost = 5 (100% loss)

 

Probably either server problems or the internet percolation brokedown somewhere

does this mean theres anything we can do or shall we leave it and try it later?

It seems to be working fine for me.

Im haveing the same issue...

heres a screenie of the ping

 

 

had to paint over name =)

Whos diggin the purple btw ;)

Sorry about that, I got sidetracked with some other work.

 

It seems like there's some routing issues going on at the moment. I'll poke our technical admin this way and see if he can sort things out with the host. :)

 

Just keep trying and we'll have things back to normal soon.

just to let u no still nothin :(

It just loaded for me after not working all day. Thanks guys. :thumbsup:

It didn't work for me a few hours ago. Tried to flush my dns cache, and strangely it worked afterwards. Don't know if it was coincidental or not.

It's worth a try for the rest of you who are having issues, I do believe our tech admins made changes to our DNS today. Open up the command prompt and run:

 

ipconfig /flushdns

sadly still nothing for me. tried the flushing thing too

Same issues here as well. :huh: Flushing DNS cache did not work unfortunately.

It wasn't working for me, but using the beta site worked perfect. And the regular site is working fine for me again

 

url for the beta page is: open.tip.it

i can access the beta site. cheers

Unfortunately there's nothing can be done about this other than just waiting for your DNS to propagate correctly. There are no other routing issues as Tec suggested, the server hasn't even physically moved. I suspect the problem is DNS caching within your system, ipconfig /flushdns used to be the way to clear this but unfortunately many applications (browsers are the main culprit here) keep their own DNS cache and it can be difficult to clear them. I've found Firefox to be a particular pain in the behind for doing this. Just because when you ping tip.it you get the new IP does not mean your browser is attempting to connect to that new IP as it likely has the old one cached. The reason the beta may work is that if you haven't visited it in the last few days, it pulls the IP for it fresh from the DNS server as its cache is out of date.

Not sure if it helps, but I had this problem yesterday for nearly all of the day (except of the evening).