dns error on one particular webpage

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For several months now I have not been able to access "http://www.cakecentral.com" on my Vista laptop or XP laptop. I don't have the firewall turned on.

In a last ditch effort I contacted my ISP to see if they were blocking the site. They cannot access the site either.

I contacted the webmaster at cakecentral.com and got the following response.

No, Cakecentral.com does not block any ISPs.

We are currently hosted in the Amazon cloud so there is high availability.
It is possible that your work network or home network is blocking access.

Thanks
[email protected]


I have looked everywhere I can think of to see if the network is blocking the site and can't figure out what is wrong.

We have qwest dsl with a local ISP. My husbands aunt has qwest DSL with MSN as ISP and can view the site. As can my mother in law that has mediacom for her ISP.

Can anyone help me figure out why I cannont access this one site?

thanks,
Shannon
 
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What happens when you try to go to the site, I've just managed it from the address in your post, do you get any error messages and what do they say.?

What other security programs do you have running, it's possible one of them might list the site as Malware and block it.

These are just my thoughts so may not help but thought I'd ask :)
 

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Joan,
Thanks so much for offering to help. I was getting the page cannot be displayed...and it said something about check network settings etc.

So in my searching for a solution I found this website
https://www.opendns.com/start/device/windows-vista

I followed the instructions and I can now access the site. At least for now. If I have anymore troubles I will post the exact error message.

Thanks again.
Shannon
 

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You're welcome, glad to hear you've been able to sort it out.
There's always someone here to help if you do find yourself in trouble so don't hesitate to come back ;)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Home
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy x360 Convertible 15-bq0xx
    CPU
    AMD A9 Stoney Ridge Technology
    Motherboard
    HP 8312 (Socket FP4)
    Memory
    8.00GB Dual-Channel Unknown (?-0-0-0)
    Graphics Card(s)
    Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz) 512MB ATI AMD Radeon R5
    Sound Card
    AMD High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Aud
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Generic PnP Monitor on AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    119GB SanDisk SD8SN8U-128G-1006 (SSD)
    931GB Hitachi HGST HTS721010A9E630 (SATA
    Keyboard
    Standard PS/2 Keyboard
    Mouse
    Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse
    Internet Speed
    62.86Mbps down 18.19Mbps up
    Other Info
    EPSON78D0CF (XP-332 335 Series) (Default Printer)
In order to confirm that you have a problem with the DNS servers provided by your ISP you could try resetting from OpenDNS and entering 174.129.211.41 into the address bar of your browser, (that is the actual address of the site as of five minutes ago :) ),

If this works then the problem is definitely with your ISP DNS server
 

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    Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 2TB,

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