Hey guys what happened to thehulltruth??? If it is still there I have not been able to access for a long time.

Seems to be working fine right now for me.

Thanks DeepV, That's what I figured I seem to be having a dns problem and I can't even ping the site. I guess I will have to work on it from my end. I can't access it with firefox or explorer.

Windows? Check your hosts file, it lives here: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. Normally there shouldn't be any entries in it.

Thanks guys t i have tried that already, still nothing.

what's your network setup like? a simple cable/dsl connection with their modem and your router?

And list any 3rd party apps that you're running that could get in the way... firewall/antivirus/security-type apps.

Standard dsl, avg free that's about it. I try to keep it simple. I can't even ping the ip address from the cmd screen. 67.201.16.17, I looked it up on whois. I shut down the firewall and avg and it still does not ping.

update, I am running windows one care system scanner and it will take a few hours, hopefully this will fix it.

are you using a DSL router deal? Like a Linksys? Or, maybe if you're with Qwest you have their ActionTec unit.

post the ip address of the DNS server(s) you're using. Do an ipconfig /all in a CMD window to get that information.

might not be related to the PC at all...

if you're able to provide me the DNS servers, I may be able to do an nslookup off of them to see if they really know where to go for thehulltruth.com

192.168.254.254

Thanks for working on this!

My dsl is through frontiernet.net, it's a speedsteam router provided by frontier.

hmmmm.. copy and paste all of the ipconfig /all info. that's in "internal" IP address. I've seen ISPs do that (keep everything on a private network), so it's hard to know what they're doing without all of the IP config information.

you could also try:

nslookup

then:

thehulltruth.com

if nothing comes back, type:

server ns1.qwest.net (that will run your next nslookup through their server.

then type again:

thehulltruth.com

took me a while to figure how to copy, her it is.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Loren>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : family
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : D-Link DGE-530T V.B1 Gigabit Etherne
t Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1E-58-48-27-C3
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.254.254
192.168.254.254
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 11, 2008 8:14:13 A
M
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:14:13 A
M

C:\Documents and Settings\Loren>

This tells me that you're on a "private" network (the 192.168.x.x stuff). Some ISPs do that, some don't... so, I can't do an nslookup off of your DNS servers because they're on the "inside" of your ISP's network.


Try the nslookup stuff I mentioned earlier.

While this Microsoft scan is running I am not able to access the router, after the scan is done I should be able to reboot the router and log in to get the rest of the info. You know the sad thing is that I am a level 2 IT guy with my company, only one level higher and I hold a 4 year degree in puter science but I get stumped on this kind of thing. My degree came in 82 long before this kind of stuff was around and I guess i have gotten lazy. I will re-post in a few hours. Thanks.

here is the server ip 74.47.101.112 nslookup points to frontier and when i look up thehulltruth it points to 67.201.16.17 still can't ping it. ????

OK I got it, it was the router firewall, I disabled and left the windows firewall on. Thanks for your help.

good to hear you got it working... my opinion is that you want to diagnose the hardware/router firewall and turn that back on.

I agree, I leave it on except when access that site and will call tech support monday.

Hey brent, here is what the firewall is saying,

TCP packet fragmented - 67.201.16.17:10555 -> 74.47.101.112:25185 len=732 id=32768

10/12/2008 06:40:24 MST E |Firewall |D:19:0 TCP 67.201.16.17:80 -> 192.168.254.3:4078 len=52 id=32768 DF=0 MF=0 byte-off=0

10/12/2008 07:32:25 MST E |Attack Detected |TCP packet fragmented - 67.201.16.17:25968 -> 74.47.101.112:25953 len=732 id=32768

Does this mean anything to you. This is what happens when I reinable the firewall and try to access tht.

Hmm... getting beyond my limits. But it looks like that was a web request, right? And not a ping? BTW, THT doesn't appear to respond to pings--I can't ping it either but I can get there in my browser.

I found only a little something where another user on Frontiernet.net had some issues and people suggested it might be the firewall... but I'm not certain. Check with their support when you can.

FIXED!!!!!!!! used drtcp and adjusted my mtu to 1500 and all is good, thanks for looking at the problem.

you're hired! nicely done. and you're welcome...