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Suddenly unable to view certain websites

A few days ago (I think it was monday) I started my computer marathon for the day when I noticed that certain websites weren't working for me. deviantart.com, missmab.com, ucomics.com are among them. It just suddenly popped up overnight. The night before, I could access them just fine.. and without making any changes to my computer, they suddenly stopped loading for me. They time out. As far as deviantart goes, though, occasionally it does something odd.. I can never load the main page, and that's as much of any other page (of the ones that don't time out) loads. I've tried restarting, cleaned out viruses (had three infected files, low risk virus), spyware, adware, and programs I'd installed the day before. I also used PC Bug Doctor to get rid of bugs. I thought about reinstalling FF, but then I tried accessing these pages in IE and Opera... same thing. Any idea what could be the problem?

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This site is as dead as my website.

Ignore this. I decided to try accessing them for the second time today and they suddenly decided to work.

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This site is as dead as my website.

To quote Locke on another thread (This one was about how NS was suddently much faster) I believe the following might have been your problem. Of course, I could be wrong. Anyhow, here's the quote.

Originally posted by Locke:

It's not, for 2-3 weeks Cogent and Level3 had been fighting and then L3 all of a sudden 'depeered' from Cogent. A lot of people don't understand what single-homed and multi-homed is, but I can tell you a lot of the ISPs in the US and many European countries are single-homed Level3 (or one of their peering partners like YIPES) or Cogent. L3 and Cogent weren't talking together so if you were on a provider who uses Cogent (Say Comcast/Cox for the majority) then you had to route the LONG WAY to most servers. Meaning if L3 was your fastest route to this server, you couldn't use it so you had to find the LONGEST WAY POSSIBLE to get here.

If you're a fan of putfile.com, Gordon operates those servers on Servermatrix MatriXtreme servers, which are purely Cogent. So if you were on say an L3 provider, you couldn't even get to the site.

Average pings were: 340ms for in the states to 1123ms for a couple people I know in Australia and China. Horrid. It's fixed temporarily until the 8th of November I believe, and the only way this will continue is if Cogent decides to PAY L3 for peering (don't ask). So we'll see.

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Cach'e?

DNS Issues with your ISP. I've had it before.

Did you use CCleaner perhaps? I know that it doesnt clear your cache properly if Firefox is open. A lot of people have this problem.

Just clear your cache and everything will be fine!

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i had a problem similar to this. It had to do with my nforce3 firewall suddenly blocking websites i would regularly visit. The only thing i could was disable the firewall.