majorgeeks forum access

Help! I am hving trouble with two website forums. The most important one is this forum, my home computer will not let me access this forum. I am having trouble with another forum as well but this one is my concern. It tells me that the page cannot be displayed. All other parts of the sites are accessible for viewing except the forums. This started about 5 days ago. Any ideas?

 

How do I find the IP address?

 

did it work, ok before....wobbles

 

Everything was working fine untill last week. If you have any ideas that I may try, please let me know. I have to access this from work, so if you want to email me them that would be great as well.

 

Just yesterday I was not able to type in the message window,,I went to in IE window -- Tools --internet options---security...in the internet zone restore defaults,,it corrected browser problems for me,,,Glenn

 

I tried that and it did nothing for me. What I don't understand (and it's no surprise) is why it only affects to sites ( http://www.xsorbit2.com/users/thebreedersconnection/index.cgi & http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21 ) and like I said earlier, I can get to all the other parts of these sites except the message boards. I am not a computer wizard so that is why it baffels me.

 

I tried the method of going in to manually program the website however, I don't know how to find the IP address to manually set it. This wa suggested in the first reply to this question. Does anyone know how to find IP addresses from websites?

 

Go to a command prompt and either use "Tracert" or "ping" followed by the the name of the website. The IP address will be shown as part of the results.

 

OK, I tried the ping and tracert, but when I did that the popup box (black screen) came up, it lasted about a half of second and disapeared. I typed it in the "run" box and that is what happened. Did I do it wrong?

 

At the run box type "cmd". This will look like you're in DOS (command prompt) mode, the black screen you saw. Then run Tracert or Ping. That way you'll see the results without the screen disappearing. What you initially did was running the programs, they finished and the window closed. By typing "cmd", the window will stay open so you can see the results of these two programs. Once you're finished with this particular window, type exit or click on the "X" for closing the window.