Cannot reach popular website
Hello, I use a popular website hrca.net (Hornby Railways Collectors Association). Since about 12th February this year attempted access just times out saying the site is busy or down. I get the same problem using other browsers. Firefox flags a certificate/name/address error warning which can be bypassed but not very convenient and possibly unsafe. The owner of the website asked me to try the IP address as a test and it works perfectly. Why is Firefox suddenly flagging this problem after 6 years of using this site without any issues? The website owner says no other users have reported any problems. There are 2000+ users. I have tried clearing the cache, disabling add-ons and resetting Firefox. Using CMD tracert I have discovered the IP address called by hrca.net on my laptop is not the same as the one supplied by website owner. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Vic Mumby
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Right, can you do this?
Open up the command prompt (In Windows, you can use WINDOWS KEY+R to open Run dialogue box and type cmd) ... To see your current DNS settings, type ipconfig /displaydns and press Enter.
You can also set 80.82.119.4 hrca.net in your host file and this should fix the dns issue.
https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-hosts-file/
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Does it make a difference if you use the wwww. prefixed version: https://www.hrca.net/
Thank you all for replies. Yes, 80.82.119.4 is the correct IP address and the connection works if I use https://80.82.119.4.
However, if I use https://www.hrca.net/ the connection fails. The website hosting provider is suggesting that somehow the DNS resolver is somehow bypassed by an issue with a 'host' driver in my machine and connecting me to 81.130.111.239 which is not one of their IP addresses.
The investigation continues.........
Many thanks
Vic
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Right, can you do this?
Open up the command prompt (In Windows, you can use WINDOWS KEY+R to open Run dialogue box and type cmd) ... To see your current DNS settings, type ipconfig /displaydns and press Enter.
You can also set 80.82.119.4 hrca.net in your host file and this should fix the dns issue.
I use this to block ad sites back in the day.
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I'm still curious to know who your dns provider is. ;-)) It may also help your surfing of the interwebs if you changed your provider. I was using opendns, but get better performance from cloudflare.
https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
Just a tip. ;-))
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You can also try to DNS Lookup tool on the about:networking page to check the resolution.
Are you using DoH (DNS over HTTPS) in Firefox ?