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mhaze

Strangely I have not been able to connect to this website for a week suddenly this morning I can ?????

All other sites have worked fine!

Go figure

sallytrafic · Southern Rally Co-ordinator

Figured

Your computer DNS weren't flushed out and you were trying to connect to the old server

No I don't know what it really means either. Rolling Eyes

But last week we changed to a new server I guess your computer/IPS was still trying to access the old one.

artona · Moderator

Hi Mick

Frank could well be correct.

DNS stands for Domain Name System. Your Internet provider will flush them routinely depending on who you are with but you can force it by pressing start, then run then typing ipconfig /flushdns and return.

It is worth also deleting the cookie for motorhomefacts if having problems

The above is for windows, mac operating systems and linux requires a different approach

stew

JQL

ISPs use a cache on their servers to hold a copy of the more frequently accessed pages and sites. They then serve up the page you request from their cache which reduces their bandwidth (which they have to pay for).

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The ISPs are supposed to check the timestamp of the page being requested against the timestamp of the page they hold in their cache but, to save money, they often don't - very naughty. What they do instead is refresh the page at set period or if its "ranking" in the database falls below a certain level. Thereby saving a lot more money on bandwidth.
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The easiest way to refresh individual pages: Whilest viewing the page press CTRL+F5 (press and hold down the CTRL (Control) Key and press the F5 key once). In most cases this will force the ISPs cache to get the latest page. Some ISP's ignore this - Freeserve (Wanadoo/Orange), AOL, Tiscali are ISPs that come to mind that don't always allow, or have in the past not allowed the CTRL+F5 key sequence to function as it should - very, very naughty!

Although this won't help for a DNS flush, it may help if you think the page/data being dispalyed is "stale".

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If you run your own Domain and PDC/DNS Server you may want to check your DNS interval - the default is set a little high.
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