Unable to connect to certain sites which are known working IP's

[Jim]

Whenever I attempt to connect to certain sites, like www.qrz.com or
some other sites related to Ham Radio, the browser just sits there and
eventually you get an error message saying the server has timed out,
or to try again later or my network is not working. None of these are
the problem.

I tried on 4 different computers on our home network, same response.

I went to the Ham Radio newsgroups for help, and all replies said the
sites are working just fine. One fellow replied, wondering if my HOST
file was "pooched".

I looked up HOST file in Google and mine looked normal just like the
defalut one, but I deleted it anyway by adding the extension "txt" as
suggested in the article, no change. I then deleted it altogether, no
change.

I then looked up the IP address of QRZ.COM, (199.245.125.1) and tried
to ping it. Well, it never did connect, saying the packets were lost.

Anyway, can anyone suggest what might be happening? I never
experienced this before.

Using Windows XP Pro, McAfee Internet Security (firewall is not
stopping anything as I turned it off, and the other computers on
network are not running firewalls).

Anyone have any suggestions on what I could try next?

THanks, Jim

 

[Jim]

After trying to PING and TRACERT to no avail, tried contacting the
site owner via E-Mail and guess what? Mysteriously things got fixed,
am now able to connect. I wonder what he did to make the ping and
trace packets disappear and get lost?

Oh well, guess I'll never know.

Jim