Excel Tip

[Guest]

Does anyone know what has happened to the Excel Tip website - I have tried
accessing from different computers but getting the reply the page cannot be
displayed?

 

[Guest]

http://www.exceltip.com/ is working for me right now.

 

[David Biddulph]

.... but not for me.
--
David Biddulph

http://www.exceltip.com/ is working for me right now.

 

[Sandy Mann]

Its just like the song....... They're writing songs of love, but not for me.
<g>

I can't get a hit either from Wood Grafing's link or any of the links in
Google to the various pages on that site.

--

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings

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[Gord Dibben]

The link provided by Wood Grafing works for me.

http://www.exceltip.com/


Gord

 

[David Biddulph]

Perhaps it's fallen off some DNS, but still on some others?

 

[Sandy Mann]

Perhaps it's an IP problem?

--

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings

(e-mail address removed)
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[Gord Dibben]

That would be my guess but I'm a little shaky on such matters.


Gord

 

[Guest]

It would appear that it has, as suspected, gotten dropped out of some DNSs.
I just opened a command window and attempted to do a tracert to
www.exceltip.com and was promptly informed that the name could not be
resolved. That basically means that my DNS has 'never heard of'
www.exceltip.com -

Now, if someone has the actual IP of the site available, you could try a
tracert or ping to the IP to see if the site is alive and all that's happened
is that there has become a DNS issue with its domain name.

Gord, since it's working for you (not for me), could you go to a command
window and try
Ping www.exceltip.com[Enter]
or
tracert www.exceltip.com
and see what is reported as the IP for the site? Then we others can try
going direct without DNS to see if it is only a DNS problem or if somehow our
routing to the site has become interrupted.

This is a recent development - I just double-checked by clicking a link to
their site in one of their 'news letters' which usually works just fine, only
to find it's dead in the water - confirming the DNS part of the problem at
least.

And this is a case pretty much at the DNS level - the error is "cannot
resolve name" rather than server not found.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Attached is a small jpg of the tracert.


Gord

It would appear that it has, as suspected, gotten dropped out of some DNSs.
I just opened a command window and attempted to do a tracert to
www.exceltip.com and was promptly informed that the name could not be
resolved. That basically means that my DNS has 'never heard of'
www.exceltip.com -

Now, if someone has the actual IP of the site available, you could try a
tracert or ping to the IP to see if the site is alive and all that's happened
is that there has become a DNS issue with its domain name.

Gord, since it's working for you (not for me), could you go to a command
window and try
Ping www.exceltip.com[Enter]
or
tracert www.exceltip.com
and see what is reported as the IP for the site? Then we others can try
going direct without DNS to see if it is only a DNS problem or if somehow our
routing to the site has become interrupted.

This is a recent development - I just double-checked by clicking a link to
their site in one of their 'news letters' which usually works just fine, only
to find it's dead in the water - confirming the DNS part of the problem at
least.

And this is a case pretty much at the DNS level - the error is "cannot
resolve name" rather than server not found.

That would be my guess but I'm a little shaky on such matters.


Gord

 

[Guest]

Seems the DNS has gotten itself straightened out -- link now works directly
for me, using either the URL of www.exceltip.com or IP of 208.69.121.221 - so
nothing can really be tested by me now, doggon it.

I guess all's well that ends up connecting.

 

[Sandy Mann]

IP's, DNS, Ping, Tracert, URL's ....... This computing suff is complicated
isn't it? <g>

--

Sandy
In Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland
and the crowning place of kings

(e-mail address removed)
(e-mail address removed) with @tiscali.co.uk

 

[Guest]

Next time your DSL acts up, tell your ISP that a tracert to your gateway
shows 100% packet loss and that pings aren't being echoed and that latency is
infinite. Scares the b'jezuz out of Level I techs and you get to talk to
Level 2 right away.
Sometimes it's not what you know, but what you say <g>