Well look at that, i was on the right lines. I deserve another biscuit now :-)

*thinking i may help Aragon with this board on BK 2 ROFL* joke of the century......

I've tried 3 URLs. The bk2 one, which obviously doesn't work!
http://www.brainking.com/game/LoginPage
http://www.new.brainking.com/game/LoginPage

No joy - and I don't know how to resolve it.

Nonsense. It must work. Change your ISP.

have you tried re-booting after you did all that bumble???

Er...what does re-booting involve? (I'm a computer dunce!)

WebTV users are here. Or at least some of them.

turning the whole computer off and on again bumble..... restarting the system.. then everything you have done may kick in

Oh right! Yes, I did that chatty. No luck though. According to my computer BK doesn't exist except for the info page.

See y'all.

have you tried just typing
brainking.com

The problem may lay with your ISP. The web-tv, msn-tv type boxes use a type of proxy server that is, to put it nice, different. Try to access the site by IP address. I can't run my trace tools to get the IP right now because I'm at work, but maybe Fencer can give the IP now. If that doesn't work. Contact your ISP and get tech support to try to clear the proxy for you.

Nice one, Filip!!!

Hey, Backoff, your mummy-in-law is/was having the same problem as me.

The Ip address is: 81.31.2.217

http://81.31.2.217/game/FirstPage

Although it sounds just like an ISP problem Bumble, NThell have that problem alot when their servers seem to 'lose' the DNS records. It rights itself after about 9hrs (when the server re-syncs with the global Primary DNS)

DNS simply converts the name BrainKing.Com to 81.31.2.217 so that you dont need to remember lots of numbers like that (which, lets face it, would be a PAIN) :))

Aragon: I knew that.

ROFL! Yeah, right!

Now to get Sally back.

However, I don't recommend to bookmark a URL with IP address, it can be easily changed in the future.

Exactly, although it does help to bypass the DNS records of your ISP :)) and lets face it there are that many tools and coomands to find IP these days you can easily keep up to date.

Simply open the command prompt and type: tracert www.brainking.com (the ip address will show in square brackets)

Aragon: faster way is use "ping" or "nslookup". Because i can deny tracert to my server, :-)), if i want to hide location of server.

When I used to register domain names and took care of technical problems I remember somewhere online is a "nslookup" took to do tracert on IP addresses.. but I cannot remember the site which i used.. :o( BUt perhaps anyone from you remembers it?

Remember i had all those issues on this pc here? Well, I found a solution! :-) I bought this


>Compaq Notebook


NOTE: I found it cheaper in the store! I cannot wait for it to be delivered at my house :O)

I just wish Aragon would stop copying here the stuff i PM to him (just makes him look clever) ROFL :o)

LMAO sorry Ian :oPpPp

The site i used to use was:
http://home01.wxs.nl/~houwe135/wbnt1/

it has a whole host of online Network Tools, no i simply use the package as supplied by my Web Host, but that site is really good :)

ThAnk You!! That looks very interesting :-) Everyone who needs a ping or tracert: let me know.. like the old days! ;O)

@ brainking.com they talk about band width.. i just like to have an update on knowledge about band width, thats why i start talking about it here..

120 - 130GB what does that mean exactly? Would that be the capacity of data that is able to go over the wires? And... is that much? :o)

http://www.findmyhosting.com/bandwidth.htm

all you ever wanted to know and more than you probably care to know about Band Width LOL

LOL @ Aragon.. Looks like selfstudy! Great! Like the site.. thanks! :-)

In short, when ya host a website everyone that uses the site technically downloads the pages (thats why new pages take longer the first time, especially wif images) so when you see that the BK home page is approx. 20-40kb (unless changed in the last month or so lol) and has 9,000+ users, that is 9,000 x 20-40kb it all mounts up. So BK would need a considerable band-width.

My site (The Zone!!) only has 3gb bandwidth and i have never came close LOL, although Stevie has the same package as me he has surpased his 3gb already, as he has several videos on his site that users download so they went over the limit pretty damn quick LOL (erm....it was videos of cars before you ask LOL)

Okay.. so the more users are using the page, the wider bandth you need!

LOL - I wasn't concerned about Stevie's video's until you mentioned it ;O)

Typical! After all that, I just logged on with the normal brainking link.

LOL! @ Bumble.. welcome to computerworld! They keep surprising you.. but Im glad its solved for ya! ;o)

Aragon - is that 3GB a day or month?

PowWeb - where I host all my sites (coan.net, bagiballoon.org, tcfcs.org, plus others) has recently increased our limit to 5BG a day. Which is a lot since I don't think I've even got close to 1GB in a months time..... but I'll be adding video soon.

Thanks, Radiant - and thanks to everyone that helped and provided ideas.

Well we counted them out - now we have to count them back again! Apart from webtv users, I'm sure there are a lot of pc users that have the same problem as Eriisa and myself had (Eriisa still might).

I'm a little late on this, but I have just about every tracking, tracing, ping, snifing, cracking, and hacking tool you can find at home, but does me no good at work. NT4.0 box behind the firewall from hell, can only go to about 30 different sites (thank god BK is one of them) and our internet access point is 1500 miles away, they keep a tight watch one us lol.

most small sites will never see 1GB/month of transfer unless they are streaming video or som other bandwidth heavy apps. I run a game server and website on my end so I end up using 200-300MB/day of transfer. 125MB of that is just the gaming stuff that runs 24/7. My ISP just loves me lol.

Aragon and mine are 3GB a month. But as I found out, I can go past this, but need to have the spare money to pay for it LOL
But other than a few pages of piccies and vids, the site is mainly a forum. So dont really need much more at the moment

Did any WebTV user try the IP address?

I did try to pass that on, but don't know if they got it Fencer.
If they can't get into games or messages & certain boards its a bit hard to know where to put it.

I gave the IP address to 2 webtv users but neither had any success.

When using the WebTV emulator i have noticed that to access BK using the IP (or indeed any site) that you do not use the prefix www

instead it would be: http://81.31.2.217

Im not sure if this is the same for all WebTV as i dont have one, but I am currently checking my site's compatibility with WebTV due to a few issues, and found that it does work with IP address.

Just incase they was using the WWW prefix :)

There are some who are back now, that are not even doing anything diferent to what they have always done :o)
Spooky eh ;oÞ

Darren, dont be rude...stop pointing, "they" have names LOL

I just tried the ladders on the WebTV Emulator Steve, what a mess LOL. Am working on a fix though :)

Literally a mess? or just little silly things? Like drop boxs missing etc?

pretty much a mess i fink LOL (well compared to a PC) although im sure a few simple tweaks will fix them :) download the emulator and take a look LOL

Where do you get an emulator from? Is it free? Be worth anyone with a site to do it really wouldnt it

http://developer.msntv.com/Tools/WebTVVwr.asp

thats where i got mine mate, and yeah it makes sense :))

I belive it to be a DNS problem. I worked on Eriisa's computer for over a half hour last night using remote access and I tried every trick I know and still could access the site with it. I could ping just fine and trace route fine. Still nothing. This morning when she got up, she could access it. To me that smells like a DNS problem with her ISP. As far as I know, her ISP isn't using a proxy server so I don't belive that to be her problem.

But then Eriisa is PC isnt she, so was a diferent problem I guess

Cheers Aragon :o)

Yep she's on a XP box. If it's a DNS problem, then it will fix itself (like it did in her case) after a period of time. WebTV on the other hand uses proxy servers and all kinds of other trash in between the box and the internet so there's no freak'n telling where the problem is.

I think that problem is solving itself with Webtv as well. There are members back here playing again as normal.

Good, we can remove an alternative URL webtv.brainking.com prepared as the last possible solution :-D

Nice to see that. I make a bet that webTV problem is solving itself, because same CACHE (proxy or DNS) expire and servers of WebTV want to take new information from the "WORLD". :-D