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Access problem

#1 Post by smaragdus »

Today I could not open The Portable Freeware site using my browsers. I could load the site only via TOR, please see screen-shot below:

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I wonder what causes this problem- whether my ISP is blocking the Portable Freeware site? Can anyone give me an idea what is going on?

This is the first time I experience that problem. Anyway- my RSS client could load new feeds from The Portable Freeware.
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Unknown. My guess is the site was offline and someone on Tor was caching the site to help save bandwidth.
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Looks like a DNS problem.

As a first resort, try flushing the DNS cache. You can do so by opening the command prompt and running this command:

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ipconfig /flushdns
If that doesn't help, try switching to another DNS server. Instructions and a list of public DNS servers: http://www.tech-faq.com/public-dns-servers.html. After switching the DNS server, flush the cache before retrying to access TPFC.
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Recently I also have similar problems with the site, especially on Fri-Sat-Sun evenings, for about 3-4 weeks. The error message is whether "Service temporarily unavailable" or "Server not found", as above. I will try the DNS cache solution next time.
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tproli wrote:Recently I also have similar problems with the site, especially on Fri-Sat-Sun evenings, for about 3-4 weeks. The error message is whether "Service temporarily unavailable" or "Server not found", as above. I will try the DNS cache solution next time.
Last week I got the 503 message as well. But this week I haven't seen anything.
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#6 Post by tproli »

Perhaps it's just Andrew experimenting how to make the site more stealth. So far so good :)
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So stealth that no one can access it. Nice!
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guinness wrote:So stealth that no one can access it. Nice!
Next level: so stealth that no one knows it exists.
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SYSTEM wrote:Next level: so stealth that no one knows it exists.
What exists?
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#10 Post by Andrew Lee »

The site was offline for a short while two weeks back due to server maintenance at the hosting company.

Other than that, I don't know of any other server downtime.
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