Help with a very strange dot .tk problem please?

[CMA]

i have a dot tk domain. If i try to access it from internet explorer, mostly I get "this page cannot be displayed" but for other people the page works fine. On the odd occasion I can access the site, I can access and leave the site as many times as I want as long as I stay in internet explorer and it will come up forst time. as soon a I come out of ie i get "the page cannot be displayed" Have tried with netscape and it worked for a while but has now started going the same way as ie. Its not just my .tk domain either its every single .tk domain I try to access. Please help if you can.

[Telexen]

Are you using some kind of firewall? Particularly ZoneAlarm?

[vass0922]

US if you keep up with the worthless posts I will report them.

If you try to ping them from command line do you get the correct IP?

Is this using a Dynamic DNS client on your side?
Are you hosting this on a local PC or do you have a webhost provider?

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[Siliconjunkie]

Quote:

Its not just my .tk domain either its every single .tk domain I try to access.

Based on this I would suspect a DNS problem. Vass's suggestion to ping it will tell you that. If you can't resolve .tk names you should call your ISP.

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[CMA]

Thanks Everyone. Vass im using a webhost but in the past I have hosted it myself on a dynamic ip (using no-ip to update dns) and had the same problem then. I have since upgraded computers and had the same problem on both so I have ruled out a system or explorer cache error

I had an issue with our government health dept DNS servers not resolving .tk adresses for a while. I bugged 'em and bugged 'em until the fixed it.

So it could be your ISP and their DNS servers. Bug 'em.

Cheers
Mick

Oh, and Wlecome to TechIMO!

Had another thought (two in one day! )

Can you get to www.tk? If not, try it by IP in the browser (http://195.20.32.85). If it works by IP and not URL, it's definitely DNS.

Not sure if your problem will include www.tk, though, as that URL is not redirected. But it may help, I hope.

Cheers
Mick

nvm got to use an actual link there mc try hitting the main site http://www.dot.tk/

My brain is so not working tonight

now that I've found a few sites I can't any of them I swear I'm in need of a brain transplant