website connection issues?

**CommandoJoe** · 07-20-2010, 04:54 PM

Is anyone else having trouble getting northwestfirearms.com to load? I starting having trouble yesterday...

Right now I\\\'m using a proxy server to post this. I normally use Clear on my laptop at work.
I am able to get here using my work internet connection though, so I wonder if Clear is the issue - Is there anyone else here using Clear?

Could the website server be blocking my IP for some reason? And if so would it tell me or just refuse to load?

I have Comcast at home, so I\\\'ll try that when I get home from work - will also try my home desktop computer to try and narrow down the connectivity problem.

Thanks

**CommandoJoe** · 07-20-2010, 04:59 PM

Just read the thread about server migration - so it is probably a DNS issue with Clear... I\'ll try changing my comp to use a different DNS server and hopefully that will work...

**Mr. Black** · 07-20-2010, 05:00 PM

I couldn't get on all of yesterday..

I am on Comcast. Today seems perfectly normal...

**x503Codyx** · 07-20-2010, 05:00 PM

I was having a hard time connecting to it, the page failed to load every single time. Now, for some reason it's connecting me weird.

**parallax** · 07-20-2010, 05:15 PM

JDitto..no work yesterday

**CommandoJoe** · 07-20-2010, 05:16 PM

Since the website changed servers, it looks like the IP address changed as well, so it might take up to a week for the IP change to propagate to all the DNS servers world wide...
I changed my computer to manually use Open DNS's servers and now it works fine...

If you go to OpenDNS | Internet Navigation And Security they should have instructions on how to change over if you want to go that route.

for advanced users that know how to do this, the server IP's are:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

**Dyjital** · 07-20-2010, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by CommandoJoe

Since the website changed servers, it looks like the IP address changed as well, so it might take up to a week for the IP change to propagate to all the DNS servers world wide...
I changed my computer to manually use Open DNS's servers and now it works fine...

If you go to OpenDNS | Internet Navigation And Security they should have instructions on how to change over if you want to go that route.

for advanced users that know how to do this, the server IP's are:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

While this comment is unrelated to the outages here.
Thanks COmmandoJoe for that link. I tossed it up on my router to use their DNS.

**no time** · 07-20-2010, 05:46 PM

Doesn't seem to be real consistant with logging on. Yesterday was a no-go all morning and spotty in the afternoon. Today it's failed a couple times.
Some guys havent been able to log in for 2 days. You wouldn't think you would have to get into your settings to make it to a website. Sure hope the probs go away.

**CommandoJoe** · 07-20-2010, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by no time

Doesn't seem to be real consistant with logging on. Yesterday was a no-go all morning and spotty in the afternoon. Today it's failed a couple times.
Some guys havent been able to log in for 2 days. You wouldn't think you would have to get into your settings to make it to a website. Sure hope the probs go away.

Normally you shouldn't have to, but with the change in server IP, some DNS servers that haven't been updated can't correlate www.northwestfirearms.com to the actual IP address - they are all still pointing to the old address which is no good anymore... Changes like this should normally take a week or less to get it all worked out.

The webmaster might want to consider sending out an e-mail to everyone letting them know what is going on and how to get here in the short term.

**Dr. Tatu** · 07-20-2010, 06:10 PM

same here, no-go for much of yesterday morning. I also notice that posts on threads seem to be missing.

**Benny503** · 07-20-2010, 06:23 PM

I have the same issue last night with clear too. Now I am on my iphone. Will try again and report when I get home tonight.

**marty8587** · 07-20-2010, 06:32 PM

I could not get on yesterday evening. Tried everything I could on my end, then had someone else email me something with a link and that worked fine. My guess it was some problem with the server.

**Brandon44647** · 07-20-2010, 07:07 PM

I'm having all sorts of problems also, yesterday I could not get on at all, earlier today I did a system restore on my puter and was able to get on. This evening my initial attempt at getting on failed, tried again and here I am. Is it our new server or or or or ? Has anyone talked to Joey about this problem ???????

**Mr. Black** · 07-20-2010, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by CommandoJoe

The webmaster might want to consider sending out an e-mail to everyone letting them know what is going on and how to get here in the short term.

+1

I found the NWFA twitter and facebook page, but they aren't really being used.

Some sort of notification would have been nice.

**pinkhamr** · 07-20-2010, 07:30 PM

I have 5 friends who contacted me yesterday, via email, who still cannot get signed on ....

**aquariumjunky** · 07-20-2010, 08:57 PM

In short this totally sucks!!!! Iphone won't connect consistently and home won't and work computer won't!!! I am going to have to start stealing Wally's internet so I can connect!!!

NWFA's is forcing me to STEAL!

Steven

**Unka-Boo** · 07-20-2010, 09:23 PM

Im in the same boat, cant find on PC ( clear ), but phone works.....

**paulncharly2572** · 07-20-2010, 09:30 PM

In most cases,rebooting your modem will clear this up.

**Joe Link** · 07-20-2010, 09:40 PM

Sorry about this guys, these DNS errors caught us by surprise. We've done everything we can, we just have to wait at this point and let the new IP addresses trickle through the internet. One thing that may or may not help is to do an IP flush. For windows users, do the following:

1. Go to the Accessories section of your start menu.
2. Click "Command Prompt".
3. Type "ipconfig /flushdns".

Let me know if that helps anyone.