.ie websites only?

foxinsox

PLEASE HELP!!

I'm using Vodafone mobile broadband...

This morning I seem to be only able to get onto .ie websites..

Cannot for the life of me get onto any .com

Anyone have a solution?

cookie1977

same here. i can get some .com sites but cant get vodafone.ie or others

foxinsox

cookie1977 wrote: »

same here. i can get some .com sites but cant get vodafone.ie or others

It's driving me insane..

I can get any .ie but not one .com

Thought it might be quicker to get advice here than trying Vodafone!
I did check their site but no news about this!

cookie1977

foxinsox wrote: »

It's driving me insane..

I can get any .ie but not one .com

Thought it might be quicker to get advice here than trying Vodafone!
I did check their site but no news about this!

I'm guessing it's the same problem that occurred with eircom last week in other words a DNS error. Thats why some sites work and others don't. Just have to wait it out for the moment. It's too early for people to post on a saturday morning But the boards and news will be full soon!!!

lucernarian

It's probably not DNS. Can anyone using Vodafone/perlico mobile internet run a tracert to the following websites:

www.ebay.com
www.twitter.com
www.play.com

Also, see if you can access www.microsoft.com

(run a tracert by holding down the windows key and R, type in "cmd", then type tracert, then a space, then the website in the black box that appears. Google it for more info.)

Copy and paste one or all of the tracerts. Right click the window, select mark, drag over the area you want to copy and then right click. Paste in the reply window here.

I think the problems with the Vodafone mobile broadband are at least partially related to this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055630670 Vodafone own perlico and they share a lot of the same internet infrastructure.

foxinsox

To_be_confirmed wrote: »

It's probably not DNS. Can anyone using Vodafone/perlico mobile internet run a tracert to the following websites:

www.ebay.com
www.twitter.com
www.play.com

Also, see if you can access www.microsoft.com

(run a tracert by holding down the windows key and R, type in "cmd", then type tracert, then a space, then the website in the black box that appears. Google it for more info.)

Copy and paste one or all of the tracerts. Right click the window, select mark, drag over the area you want to copy and then right click. Paste in the reply window here.

Thanks.. K I've tried this several times and below is all i keep getting..

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Fox>

when u say the website that appears in black box?

I got on to microsoft.com so did..

"cmd"tracert http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx

also tried all other variations..
is that what I was supposed to do?
Doesn't seem right?

Couldn't get on to any of the others, twitter,play etc..

Raiser

After you go Run > Cmd you get a black DOS window on your screen.

- You then don't use cmd any more - just enter the text in red below.....


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Fox>tracert www.microsoft.com

- Gimme the list of websites you want to access and I'll post IP addresses!!!

foxinsox

Raiser wrote: »

After you go Run > Cmd you get a black DOS window on your screen.

- You then don't use cmd any more - just enter the text in red below.....


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Fox>tracert www.microsoft.com

- Gimme the list of websites you want to access and I'll post IP addresses!!!

Cheers Raiser...

just on hold for Vodafone tech support now..they did say they had lots of calls about it this morning..

I was just surfing..no sites inparticular..but ta for offer..its just annoying me thats all.. I reckon its major problem on their end..

I'll update if Vodafone tell me anything useful :rolleyes:

Raiser

In Internet Explorer or Firefox address bar type in > 208.67.219.99

Click on the "Start using Open DNS" button

- And then follow the detailed and easy to follow instructions on screen.

Should be a 2 minute fix.....

foxinsox

Raiser wrote: »

In Internet Explorer or Firefox address bar type in > 208.67.219.99

Click on the "Start using Open DNS" button

- And then follow the detailed and easy to follow instructions on screen.

Should be a 2 minute fix.....

Tried that but kept telling me to go back to start..thanks for ur help but I physically cannot do anymore..

Spent 24 mins on to Vodafone only to get cut off halfway thru...:mad:

Problem is on their end, they are working on it at the moment..

I am giving up and going to cut my grass otherwide the laptop is in severe danger of being damaged..

When I come back from my grass cutting duties it will all be ok..

lucernarian

Raiser wrote: »

In Internet Explorer or Firefox address bar type in > 208.67.219.99

Click on the "Start using Open DNS" button

- And then follow the detailed and easy to follow instructions on screen.

Should be a 2 minute fix.....

I assume you didn't read my post. It's not a DNS problem!! Vodafone/Perlico are having serious routing issues today. Look at the "perlico speed issue" thread in the broadband forum.



Anyway, do you want to try that tracert thing again, as my explanation was very hurried eariler? When you get to:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Fox>

you type the following into the black window "tracert www.ebay.ie". No quotation marks:) So you'll end up with (as Raiser showed you) C:\Documents and Settings\Fox>tracert www.ebay.ie

It's a piece of cake once you type it in. Just copy and paste by right clicking, then select mark. Then click and drag over the area like you're making a box to select the text. Then right click on the selected text, and it's ready to be pasted straight away.

Eire-Dearg

I'm having the exact same problems! What happens when you do the tracert thing? I'm getting numbers and pasting them into my browser - but nothing happens................

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Kevin>tracert www.twitter.com

Tracing route to twitter.com [168.143.162.100]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1952 ms 149 ms 159 ms 192.168.50.103
2 117 ms 129 ms 119 ms 192.168.50.98
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9

titan18

It's the same with me, can access some sites but not a lot.Can't get on to facebook,twitter,eurosport etc.

All I get is requests timed out aswell

Eire-Dearg

Which number do you copy paste into your browser?

foxinsox

C:\Documents and Settings\fox>www.facebook.com
'www.facebook.com' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Documents and Settings\fox>tracert www.facebook.com
Tracing route to www.facebook.com [69.63.184.143]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 524 ms 109 ms 119 ms 192.168.50.103
2 91 ms 119 ms 119 ms 192.168.50.98
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 *

16. Grass is cut!
17. Interweb still mad! :mad:
18. Everybody in house is fed!
19. I hate Vodafone!
20. Thanks to all who are trying to help!

edit: This 69.63.184.143 is what I'm putting in my browser. Is that right?
Then that goes http://69.63.184.143 I'm guessing that is facebook's IP address and this is just a sneaky way to get there?

Still getting > Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

jhegarty

Same here , good to know i am not going mad.

jhegarty

My blackberry (also on 087) is working fine. So I presume it's just an issue with the hs.vodafone.ie apn.

lucernarian

The copying/pasting the number into the browser won't make any difference or help figure out the problem.

The tracert results you guys posted show up a similar yet different problem to what I'm having. If I ping www.twitter.com etc, mine reach a different number and then also have repeated request timed outs.

I've found it's websites outside of Ireland and the UK that are causing issues.

After a lot of trying around, the websites that work are irish and british hosted ones, along with international websites that are served by akamai.

What akamai do is explained here (Amid much marketing babble)http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/edgeplatform.html. They've got a server in Ireland which "hosts" a number of big companies' websites.

Anyway, it seems that the problems Vodafone/Perlico DSL customers are experiencing, and the mobile internet customers are experiencing, are similar but not the same. I can fix my problems if I reset the router once or twice (and get a different IP client and server address), so maybe mobile bb customers should disconnect and reconnect their modems to see if it helps.

Once again, DNS isn't the problem and it's nothing got to do with eircom's outage as reported on rte etc.

Eire-Dearg

When should we expect everything to be back to normaL?

jhegarty

Seems to coming back up.

Eire-Dearg

jhegarty wrote: »

Seems to coming back up.

Speed is still slow for me, and sites i've been tracking (fb, twitter) still down.

foxinsox

I'm still on .ie only!!
Can get on to .co.uk
Still no .com

Have tried disconnecting and reconnecting the modem, no difference!

So my night is as follows:

RTE 1 Lucky Sh*te
RTE 2 Some old 007
TV3 GAA or summat
TG4 Survivor

oh and boards.ie......

If I had a bottle of whiskey now I'd be sorted! :cool:

foxinsox

Still the same today!

Was just on to Vodafone, they have people working on it and hope to get it back up and running asap!

afcdave

I was having the same issues on vodafone DSL but changed my network settings to the Level3 DNS servers:

4 . 2 . 2. 1
4 . 2 . 2 . 6

All seems to be working correctly now

lucernarian

You're lucky. When I first had the problem, I changed from Level3 to Perlico/Vodafone's DNS. That seemed to solve the problem. It didn't:) Sometime today or tomorrow (unless it's fixed) you'll have the same problem again.

When you change DNS, the router restarts itself. The restart sometimes fixes the problem, not the DNS change. Have a look at the main thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055630670

Once again, changing DNS won't work, a router restart might, if you are using Vodafone/Perlico DSL Mobile bb users will have to sit back and wait, so it seems.

Carrickman

jhegarty wrote: »

Same here , good to know i am not going mad.

Same here as well, still not working:mad:

Eire-Dearg

Yep, was back up last night, after about 12am, but all are gone again today.

Very frustrating

lucernarian

Is it working again for any people here?