HELP accessing Pentaxforums needed

[Ben_Edict]

I have a strange problem, that occured newly yesterday: all of my web browsers on my mostly used computer (Macbook, OS X 10.4.11 and Firefox 3/Safari3 IE 5.2) stopped loading the pentaxforums.com site. I cannot even follow links from reply notifications, but always get a time out and the message, that the URL could not be found. Everything was fine the day before and I have not changed anything.

Interestingly enough I can still access the forum on another machine, an old Powermac, running also under 10.4.11 and using the same browsers.

Has there been any change in the site setup, that could have wreaked havoc with DNS services? Ot could it be, that pentaxforums.com is listed on some blacklists (parental control or whatever), which might than be blocked by my service provider? But this sounds unprobable, as my second machine would have the same problems...

I am completely clueless, not the least, because I can access any other site without problems. Any hint, help, tip would be highly appreciated.

Thanks, Ben

[Adam]

Hi Ben,

No changes have been made to the site that I'm aware of. I hope somebody else on the forum knows more about issues like these and can be of assistance!

[Ben_Edict]

Originally Posted by Adam

Hi Ben,

No changes have been made to the site that I'm aware of. I hope somebody else on the forum knows more about issues like these and can be of assistance!

Thanks Adam. So at least I know for sure, that I have to look on my side. But I am really clueless, still have to use my old Mac to come here...

Ben

[Ben_Edict]

O.k. I still could not identify the real cause of the problem... But I now use a workaround, which seems to solve the connection problems: I added a list of live DNS servers to my network settings and this seems to make pentaxforums.com visible again to my machine. It shouldn't be necessary and all other websites I tried, can be reached without adding these DNS server addresses manually, but it is o.k.

Ben