difficulties accessing a website

hi

I wonder if someone would point me in the right direction. I cannot access the website-www.ncsl.org.uk (the web address of the national college for school leadership) from my pc at home. I have no problems access this website from other pc's and I have no problems accessing any other websites from my pc at home-just this one (www.ncsl.org.uk). Can anyone help-please. :confused

many thanks

 

Find your hosts file and take a look at it to see whether ncsl or ncsl.org is in it. If you find a line starting with 127.0.0.1 and followed by ncsl or ncsl.org or some other URL containing ncsl, you will not be able to access it unless that line if removed from the hosts file.

For info on the hosts file, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file, and be sure to read the section on Blocking.

 

it works!!! You are a genius. Thank you so much. I've spent hours trying to get on this website. Once again many many many thanks.

 

Still, you could try what I suggested to see whether your hosts file is blocking the URL.

 

Hi, usafveteran. I did go to the link that you kindly provided but confess that I didn't understand it. I did try to thank you as well for your assistance but when I clicked on 'quote' underneath your text box nothing happened. I am very grateful that you tried to help me and I apologise that my attempt to thank you didn't work (or I didn't understand how to use the forum correctly).
It would be interesting to check out your suggestion that I may be 'blocked' from accessing www.ncsl.org.uk in the usual way but you may have to be more specific with your instructions (i.e click this, press that, if this happens then do this or that ...etc...).

Once again many thanks

:-o

 

Hi plodr

how did you find the ip number? also when i was on the homepage of the website i could not access one of the links. so i merely replaced he letters 'ncsl' with the ip number that you provided followed by the rest of the linked address and this worked.

I admit to not being 'technically minded' so what does dns stand for?

 

DNS: Domain Name System (or Server): It translates names (such as www.ncsl.org) into the IP address of the server hosting the site.

 

No, I just tested this. I added www.ncsl.org.uk to my hosts file. I then restarted my computer and tried visiting the site by using that URL. I could not view it. But, I can still view the site by using the IP address.

 

One way is to use a website such as http://whois.domaintools.com/; enter ncsl.org.uk in the search box and the search results page will show the IP address. Another way is to use the ping command. Open a Command Prompt panel and type ping www.ncsl.org.uk at the command line. The results will show the IP address.

 

Many thanks once again. I got the number from the suggested website, ta.