Virgin Media blocking Geocities?

[Yoda]

Anyone else on Virgin Media broadband?

If so, can you get onto Geocities (www.geocities.com) at all? Over the past 24 hours I can't access any of my geocities websites from any of the machines at home, but can from elsewhere. Makes me wonder if VM are blocking.

 

[Slowdown]

In my previous experience of virgin Media their DNS management is terrible. I found web sites came and went at random. So I found another DNS server pair to use

 

[johnnyh]

Hi Yoda - I'm on Virgin Media and can't open Geocities either

 

[Yoda]

Thanks guys.

Sounds like I need a long and meaningful chat with the Virgin techies.

That's something to look forward to. Not.

 

[wessie]

I was an NTL cable customer and now use their ADSL service via a BT line. They have had intermittent DNS problems at times.

Hence, I use OpenDNS in addition to the Virgin settings. Go to https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start and follow the instructions. It's free.

Your Geocities problem is nothing to do with Virgin though. Geocities is now part of Yahoo. The url, from a google search, is http://geocities.yahoo.com/ - it looks like Yahoo have not placed a redirect from the old domain as the new one works fine here.

 

[Yoda]

Your Geocities problem is nothing to do with Virgin though. Geocities is now part of Yahoo. The url, from a google search, is http://geocities.yahoo.com/ - it looks like Yahoo have not placed a redirect from the old domain as the new one works fine here.

Thanks Wessie.

I can get the www.geocities.com top-level site (and all my lower-level hosted websites) OK from work, but not from home, so it does point to being a VM issue. I think.

 

[Yoda]

Helpful techie at VM has confirmed that they've got routing issues at their end, affecting Geocities, Facebook and others. Ticket number 811124.

 

[wessie]

Helpful techie at VM has confirmed that they've got routing issues at their end, affecting Geocities, Facebook and others. Ticket number 811124.

In other words: "just like torrents, we are throttling connections to popular domains because we have inadequate infrastructure to cope with peak demand"

 

[Bonnieman]

all ok

Im with Virgin Media broadband and followed your link ,opened up with no problems. Hope thats of some use