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Sir Ralph
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Long live teh Schwampel!
Dec 2001
time: 06:35
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Since about four weeks, I have very rare (at most 5% of the cases) access to Apolyton from my computer at home, while my access from work is near 100%. I did some research on this matter, but could not find a reason. I don't have any trouble to access other websites and internet fora.
The problem is, the http requests time out with no response whatsoever.
First I thought, that it is a firewall issue, since some of the spam ad banners use ports other than 80 or 443, which I have allowed for HTTP traffic (all others being blocked). But this can not be the reason, since the problem persists, when I turn my firewall off. Besides, I don't have any troubles with other forum sites with banner ads.
It can't be a popup blocker issue either, since it doesn't matter, if I use the Internet Explorer 6 (no blocker) or Mozilla Firefox (has blocker, but I didn't touch the default setting, so I don't even know if it's on or off).
Finally, it can't be a DNS issue, since all other domain names are resolved properly. I run my own name server and never had trouble resolving addresses.
My guess is now, that a large part of the address range my provider uses, is blocked by Apolyton itself. I have a dynamical IP address at home, as opposed to work, where my address is fixed. My question is, can this be the reason? I can't think of another one. It's the same, every day. I access from work at 5:30pm - Apolyton is there. I access from home ten minutes later - Apolyton is gone.
Please? 
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17-08-2004 12:49
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