Trouble accessing forums from work

entropy · 29th July 2001, 12:01 AM

ATM i don't seem to be able to access the forums from my work computer... i can get www.overclockers.com.au no problems but the forums link just gives me the Host Not Found msg. every time. I rang the helpdesk ppl and the guy said no sites are blocked. Any ideas what might cause this?

edd91 · 29th July 2001, 12:43 AM

do the lmhost thingo

Epoch · 29th July 2001, 1:03 AM

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Originally posted by edd91
do the lmhost thingo

Wow, 1050+ posts and none of them actually contain useful information. *clap clap clap*

For your foruming-at-work needs, entropy:
[list=1][*] Do a search for 'hosts*' in your windows folder.[*] If it's called 'hosts.sam', rename it to 'hosts' (no extension).[*] Add the line '61.8.3.18 forums.overclockers.com.au' to it.[*] Might need a reboot. I'm not sure.[*] Done.[/list=1]

entropy · 31st July 2001, 7:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Epoch

Wow, 1050+ posts and none of them actually contain useful information. *clap clap clap*

For your foruming-at-work needs, entropy:
[list=1][*] Do a search for 'hosts*' in your windows folder.[*] If it's called 'hosts.sam', rename it to 'hosts' (no extension).[*] Add the line '61.8.3.18 forums.overclockers.com.au' to it.[*] Might need a reboot. I'm not sure.[*] Done.[/list=1]

^bump^
Hmm, found a "hosts" file in Windows on my workstation (W95), it shows up as just "hosts" in Explorer but when you right click and look at Properties, it says it's a ".sam" file. I couldn't really work out how to rename it to get rid of the .sam designation except for removing the .sam format from the system altogether. So i wandered off to another w/station and had a look, and that one had both a "hosts.sam" and a plain old "hosts" with no extension.

The only way i could work out to get this generic "hosts" file over to my other comp. at work (since we don't have floppy drives etc.) was to email it here to my home address, add in the forum details, then send it back to my work email for when i go back in on Thurs. Then i suppose i can just rename the current "hosts.sam" to something unrecognizable, and drop the modified "hosts" into Windows? Does this sound reasonable?

What a pain

aXis · 1st August 2001, 3:04 PM

Then in explorer - double click on the .sam file and open it with Notepad. Edit the file and save.

Use windows explorer and change your options to show file extenstions.

Then just rename the file to "hosts" - no extension (or you could do it from a dos prompt)

chrisc37 · 1st August 2001, 3:13 PM

alternatively, Start/Run/edit c:\windowsdir\hosts
but then again, im an old bugger

Manaz · 1st August 2001, 4:05 PM

Using the hosts file is a kludge anyway - the hosts file is a throwback to an era before DNS even existed - it solves the problem in the short term, but be prepared to remove the entry from your hosts file once Agg gets the 2nd server set up, and the DNS problems are fixed.

entropy · 2nd August 2001, 8:24 PM

Edited the "hosts" file as suggested, saved it as "hosts", no ext., rebooted, still couldn't access the fora... again the OCAU main pages are fine, just not the fora. It's odd, cause i used to be able to, then i couldn't for a month or so, then i could for a while, now it's gone again (about a month now)

29th July 2001, 12:01 AM	#1
entropy Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia. Posts: 585	Trouble accessing forums from work ATM i don't seem to be able to access the forums from my work computer... i can get www.overclockers.com.au no problems but the forums link just gives me the Host Not Found msg. every time. I rang the helpdesk ppl and the guy said no sites are blocked. Any ideas what might cause this?

29th July 2001, 12:43 AM	#2
edd91 Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: syd.nsw.au Posts: 2,322	do the lmhost thingo __________________ no new items, ta

2nd August 2001, 8:24 PM	#8
entropy Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia. Posts: 585	Hmm, didn't work Edited the "hosts" file as suggested, saved it as "hosts", no ext., rebooted, still couldn't access the fora... again the OCAU main pages are fine, just not the fora. It's odd, cause i used to be able to, then i couldn't for a month or so, then i could for a while, now it's gone again (about a month now)

1st August 2001, 3:04 PM	#5
aXis Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Kalgoorlie, WA Posts: 3,311	Then in explorer - double click on the .sam file and open it with Notepad. Edit the file and save. Use windows explorer and change your options to show file extenstions. Then just rename the file to "hosts" - no extension (or you could do it from a dos prompt)

1st August 2001, 3:13 PM	#6
chrisc37 Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Townsville Posts: 381	alternatively, Start/Run/edit c:\windowsdir\hosts but then again, im an old bugger

1st August 2001, 4:05 PM	#7
Manaz (Damned or Belated) Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 4,797	Using the hosts file is a kludge anyway - the hosts file is a throwback to an era before DNS even existed - it solves the problem in the short term, but be prepared to remove the entry from your hosts file once Agg gets the 2nd server set up, and the DNS problems are fixed.