"Randell D." <you.can.email.me.at.randelld@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<vgt7b.924860$ro6.18503063@news2.calgary.shaw .ca>...[color=blue]
> "lawrence" <lkrubner@geocities.com> wrote in message
> news:da7e68e8.0309091355.52888002@posting.google.c om...[color=green]
> > I haven't been able to reach
www.php.net for days. Most of the rest of
> > the web is working for me, though I've bad trouble reaching any
> > English sites. Anyone else having trouble?[/color]
>
> Besides using the mirrors...
>
> Have you tried to ping the domain? I can both see it, and ping
www.php.net
> and ping php.net
>
> If you're using windoze, try tracert php.net from the dos command line...
>
> Have you modifed your local hosts file? If you can see goggle and any other
> website then it sounds like a dns issue so it might be worth having a word
> with your ISP. Last year (in BC, Canada) I can recall helping one customer
> who had problems with seeing their Company website from home - I later
> discovered that they were connecting via Telus dialup and that the dialup
> DNS servers differed from telus DSL customers... and... the dialup DNS
> server records were at least 6months out of date with the rest of the
> world... They were very slow in fixing it (they actually asked the customer
> to update their local hosts file and then closed the support request call as
> being resolved which was stupid).
>
> So... check you can see the rest of the world... check that you can ping
> php.net and if it the problem still exists in a few more days, I'd get on
> the phone to your ISP... in the mean time, use one of the mirrors
> (ca2.php.net for one).[/color]
Still can't reach
www.php.net, but us2.php.net has been working fine
for me. Thanks all.
