projecteq website down?

[John Adams]

Hey, as long as this is turning into a PC Tech suggestion thread, here's mine...

Do what they suggest, eliminate all connection points between the PC and cable modem, and ipconfig /flushdns and ipconfig /registerdns again. Check that there are no other servers but localhost with ipconfig /displaydns.

Then, hop on up to www.grc.com and run his Shields Up! profiler. It's horribly enlightening and scarey (not that you are affected, but you never know). Do this with and without your router.

The only other thing that I can imagine is something is intercepting the DNS lookups. Can you hard-code your ISP DNS servers on the connection profile?

I've honestly never heard of this - and I've run virusscanner/adware free for 10 years on the internet, and never been infected. Strange that so many people are.

[Teppen]

Ok, what Ive used on it so far in terms of anti spyware, and anti virus/trojan:
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ad-aware
ewido
spybot s&d
spysweeper
spyhunter
trojanhunter
trojanremover
ccleaner
superantispyware
fprot
a-squared anti-malware
anti vir pe
norton av
xoftspy
ms defender
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all these above came back nothing found. also used these projrams:

hijackthis
autoruns
winsock xp fix

these ran only things that hijack & autoruns picked up were the stuff from dell and norton av, and a few other misc programs that I had bought with run on startup. I ran winsock xp fix, it rebooted machine, but didnt fix problem.
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also visited www.grc.com went through several tests and according to that site my pc is its wet dreams come true. posted exact outputs of each test from that site below:

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file sharing tab results

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.

Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.
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common ports tab results

Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet

[Angelox]

Well, a good trojan will arrive through the firewall via email or java off a web page. But at this point , it doesn't seem to be that.
I know it's a pain, but it's a "checklist" you have to go through and make sure. did you check for hidden partitions?

[eq4me]

I would recommend to give it a try with another Computer/Notebook or Instant Linux CD. If you still get the phenomenon it might be your providers nameservers.
Did you check what your default nameserver thinks the IP of www.projecteq.net is?

If you dont have any problems under Linux or with another Computer you should look into the 'hosts' file see if you find any static entries. If there are none set one for www.projecteq.net to the right IP(66.28.184.13) and see what happens.

[Angelox]

Here's something else you can try and will help even if it's not the problem
tcp optimizer;
http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/sho...7&postcount=25

Also, rojadruid mentioned you had spyware maybe because the ping was too slow?
maybe it's just not resolving fast enough, and comes back with that error?
try this;
go to you hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
edit with notepad and add the domains;

66.28.184.13 www.projecteq.net
66.28.184.13 projecteq.net

that should speed things up

[Teppen]

After reading everyones replies I tried Angelox's host insertions and it works now, able to login, post, etc, and able to visit all parts of projecteq.net through address bar.

I update my host file religiously, use this site because they update frequently:
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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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but I always have this as is, as downloaded so all entries are:
127.0.0.1 somesite
etc....
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I guess for some reason my pc was still trying to load up the old ip address instead of the new one. opened HOSTS file and did a find www.projecteq.net but it didnt find any string that matched in there, however adding those two lines to the HOSTS file fixed my problem.

Anyways all I want to say is....

Woot! I scream, you scream, we all scream Woot!

[eq4me]

Originally Posted by Teppen

I update my host file religiously, use this site because they update frequently:
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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

I am really sorry to say but this is ... very unwise. Go and get rid of all host entrys that are not in your orivate network. That is what DNS is for!
If you have problems with the DNS service of your provider go and complain about it. Putting official IPs into the host file can only be a temporary measure.

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by eq4me

I am really sorry to say but this is ... very unwise. Go and get rid of all host entrys that are not in your orivate network. That is what DNS is for!

Host file works fine, you just have to remember to update it if the site-ip changes, and not use for dynamic-ip sites.

[Angelox]

Heh! , I was starting to get worried there ...
Even if you didn't need it, it still will make things go faster,as it has no need to resolve.

If you had just www.projecteq.net in the host, and no ip, then that was your delay in the ping. What might have been happening is, windows first tried the host file, and since it was null, might have tried an ip of "0" first. then went and resolved elsewhere.