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Router blocking one domain
This is the oddest thing I've ever encountered. My Nighthawk X4 AC2350 blocks beckwithmansion.com (which I own). I've eleminated it being a website, hosting, ISP or computer problem. It all points...
It went away as mysteriously as it happened.
I have a theory... My theory is it had nothing to do with the router, and everything to do with my ISP and HTTP'ing to my webhost.
Hi dbwalton,
Let me check on this with and will get back to you.
Hi dbwalton,
Does it still work?
It went away as mysteriously as it happened.
I have a theory... My theory is it had nothing to do with the router, and everything to do with my ISP and HTTP'ing to my webhost.
> [...] My theory is it had nothing to do with the router, and
> everything to do with my ISP and HTTP'ing to my webhost.
I couldn't see how the router could cause this problem, but there was
this:
> If I move my cable directy to the cable modem (bypassing the router) I
> can access beckwithmansion.com just fine.
At that point I was mystified (and remain so). Unless somehow
someone was blocking your IP address, and it toggled in synchrony with
your inserting/removing the router. Or something like that. Didn't
seem likely. Definitely mysterious.I spent 22 years working as a TCP/IP engineer at AT&T, and this had me baffled. Of course, process of elimination demonstrated that it ONLY happened with this specfic router AND it only happened with port 80. (I could traceroute, ftp, telnet, etc. I just couldn't connect with http.) Now, if it were https, I would have suspected a certificate issue, but that wasn't the case. It didn't matter what device was trying to http to that site; the only commonality was the router.
It will remain a mystery.