isp blocking Gayheaven? IMPORTANT NOTICE ADDED

[vb2000]

It's nice to see the site still exists. Welcome back to my computer I've missed you for the past couple of days and I hope you'll now stay for many a day, month, nay, year.

 

[serlud]

It seems that everything is back to normal, I'm really happy.

 

[gb2000ie]

FOR MAC Users :

.....

Thanks for taking the time to post these instructions, but your Mac instructions are needlessly long and complicated, and make needless changes to the Finder settings. I put up MUCH shorter and simpler instructions that work on all versions of OS X earlier in this thread - to re-cap:

Mac users will find the file in the standard Linux/Unix location of /etc/hosts, but they won't see the file in the Finder because it's hidden, and even if they navigate to it using the Go → Go to Folder ... menu item they won't be able to save it because they won't have permission to edit the file.

Don't fear though, you can still edit it if you really want to, and if you are logged in with an admin account, it will require you to open a Terminal window though and copy and paste in this command:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

You'll be asked for a password, this is your regular login password on the Mac. The command will open a terminal based text editor where you can make what ever changes you want before hitting ctrl+x to exit (and hitting y when prompted to save your changes).

 

[gb2000ie]

It seems that everything is back to normal, I'm really happy.

Not here in Ireland - I just lost it here this evening. I put a hosts entry for the site onto my router, so now all the computers in my house will always get the right answer from DNS.

B.

 

[serlud]

I had the same problem this morning, yesterday was also disappeared from google search results, there are others who still have problems, but what I noticed is that I get notifications of replies to topics.

 

[tigerpad]

This is strange have be blocked from another homosexual site before so used a proxy and then a month later everything came right.
I edited my host file but still won't work, so am using a fast proxy haven't notice much difference in performace so far. I can ping the web site fine and nslookup fine but still am blocked, can see it on google. Am thinking it could be blocked from the application level but can't be bothered as its working just as fast through the proxy.

 

[ryan_holtz]

I wasn't able to login here for about two or three days and whenever i type the site's url, OpenDNS (the DNS serve that I am using) says that the server where GH is hosted won't respond. I hope that everything will be back to normal for good now.

 

[BHcolin]

So happy I can get back onto the site. It came up the same thing about the server - I thought I'd lost GayHeaven forever. Thank goodness it's back!!! I love this site too much for it to just vanish

 

[XMan101]

We're still here , but, as the announcement says, you may need to try a few times to get in. Nothing is blocked, we have tech problems that I hope will be solved soon, but in the meantime just keep trying

I don't think changing settings will make much difference, the problem is with our server.

 

[Jamiex96]

I have just experienced this as well and I am in Australia.

There are some very odd things to relate:

1) According to my PC, www.gayheaven.org does not exist. This was after checking the following nameservers: localhost.localdomain, my ISP, and openDNS.
2) I was on Recon at the time and a user in the UK reported that he was able to access the site no probs.
3) I logged on to my workplace and it recognised www.gayheaven,org and returned the IP address. I don't know what nameservers it checks, probably a large number.
4) Further experimentation revealed that gayheaven.org (without the www) was recognised, but this was no help to me because when I enter that in the browser address field the www is inserted automatically.
5) I tried logging on via anonymouse.org and was unsuccessful the first time, but successful on the second try.

I eventually seem to have fixed the problem by putting the following line in my /etc/hosts file:

80.179.154.41 www.gayheaven.org

With this in place, Firefox gets the IP address directly from this file without having to go to my ISP or elsewhere.

This is on a Linux system. I don't know what the corresponding file is under Windows but it will be something similar.

Hope this helps. Glad to see it wasn't just me getting a problem.

Thanks, this worked

 

[yoyo888]

Just thought I would do some screen caps for people who are struggling their their HOSTS file.

Goto Windows Explorer and go to the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc folder as shown in the pic below



You will see a few files in this folder. Double click the hosts file name. Since there is no extension to this file you will be prompted with what to open it with. Select Notepad and click the OK button



At the bottom is where you type in the entries.

You might have other entries there. Just type these two at the bottom (or copy and paste them from this)

80.179.154.41 www.gayheaven.org
80.179.154.41 gayheaven.org



The other entries I have there for info are to stop pages loading from pop ups!!!

Save the file and quit it.

If you are still having issue, another way is to use a different DNS server like Googles Open DNS Server.

Open up the properties of your network card

Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and where it says "Use the following DNS server addresses" and type in 8.8.8.8 as the Preferred and 8.8.4.4 as the Alternative address as shown in the pic below (The pic below only shows the Preferred)



once you have done that click OK until you get out of those screens.

Hope this helps

 

[Behrluvr]

Proxy servers failed for me today-no access. Only working sporadically. Went to modifying the hosts list instead, thats working.

 

[dngerboy33]

As many people have mentioned, this is very clearly a DNS issue, as resolving the IP via DNS is returning the various "cannot find" pages.

I tried using a different DNS (my ISP's) versus using Google's, that didn't work.

However, as soon as I put the sites IP address and name in my Hosts file, I've had NO issues at all reaching the website.

I haven't had any of the logging in issues - Just not being able to reach the site at all until I was able to put the info in my Hosts file.



Dngerboy

 

[gsway69]

I'm in UK too and found it being blocked as well if using IE8 but am now able to read posts using Mozilla

 

[serlud]

However, it is still impossible to read the post notifications will be automatically redirected to the home page.

 

[tomba]

We're still here , but, as the announcement says, you may need to try a few times to get in. Nothing is blocked, we have tech problems that I hope will be solved soon, but in the meantime just keep trying

I don't think changing settings will make much difference, the problem is with our server.

This makes most sense. I have few problems getting in. Most of the connection problems I have, only start once I'm here.

If I refresh the page or open a link in a new tab/window, I get cut off with the usual error message flashed up by Firefox about site not found.

 

[iryhousen]

I was unable to connect for five days, just got the site back today. It's good to know Gayheaven still exists. I guess a lot of people still had the site working, because it says there have been 4,416 posts since I logged in last. I kept Firefox couldn't find the server. Thanks for all the information.

 

[JonnyFantastico]

I'm able to pop on through Anonymouse, but that doesn't always work and if it does, I'm usually booted after a bit.

Come on, guys... fix it already! LOL (Obviously, I'm teasing.)

 

[turkeyboy]

Thanks Yoyo and ALL for your helpful advice,
However, I'm still having trouble logging in FROM MY HOME COMPUTER. I have done all the suggested changes.
I am able to log in from my work computer. I'm located in Australia.
I have tried and tried to log in on numerous and different times, but alas "NO GO".
Should I do anything else to correct my problem ?

 

[thekerry]

I'm betting it's a DNS issue

Doesn't hurt to double check the settings