Hey Josh, What is the particular website that is redirecting you?

Check if this site is present on your hosts file:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29#Location_in_the_file_system

If it's not there probably the site has DNS problem, let us know the site so we can check on our side.

Hello,

It is http://weaponscache.com .

It should redirect to the new site (server change) but instead of 209.124.82.xx it sends me to 71.194.xxx.xxx .

That last is my own IP address as seen by others!

Not sure what's going on. As I said, this is a FireFox-only problem.

Thanks,

Josh

If it's a Firefox only problem, Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.

(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)

• You can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
• Or open the Help menu and click on the Restart with Add-ons Disabled... menu item while Firefox is running.

Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"

If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article for that.

Nukeador,

It is indeed present.C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc as is normal.

It looks like it's in default form. Should it be?

Thanks,

Josh

Nukeador,

The problem is present is safe mode.

Regards,

Josh

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc should be empty by default, just with localhost.

Clean that, and scan your system with an anti-virus, probably you have something messing with your hosts file.

Microsoft says it should be present there...?

I don't get it?

weaponscache.com or any other domain should NOT be present by default on your hosts file, because the hosts file would change the ip of a domain, and that's the problem you are having.

OK, no, I misunderstood you. That's my bad.

The hosts file is how is shown by Microsoft by default.

There is NO Weaponscache or anything there. All it says is

Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost

Looks clean, do you concur?

Thanks,

Josh

That's weird.

If you go to Start → Run and type cmd.exe

You should be able to type:

nslookup weaponscache.com

And get what ip is returning and from what DNS server. Copy and paste the output of that command.

NS Lookup results:

Default server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1

>weaponscache.com Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer: Name: weaponscache.com Address: 209.124.82.26

Which the 192.168.1.1 is my NetGear wireless router.

Re-checking the router's firewall, but I'm still not sure what's going on.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Josh

This site seems to dislike Firefox 20 for some reason. I tried my default user agent string, IE8 and Firefox 36 (using the User Agent Switcher extension and Wireshark). Only the real one was redirected to my IP address.

Apologies for the length...

Fx20 in Win 7 x64

GET /forum/home.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.weaponscache.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 301 Permanently Moved
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:04:19 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.17 mod_perl/2.0.6 Perl/v5.8.8
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Set-Cookie: bbsessionhash=ae6eb6f1fbadf38ce9251106a790ee56; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: bblastvisit=1365717859; expires=Fri, 11-Apr-2014 22:04:19 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bblastactivity=0; expires=Fri, 11-Apr-2014 22:04:19 GMT; path=/
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
X-UA-Compatible: IE=7
Location: http://{my IP address}
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Fx 20 masquerading as IE8 on Win 7

GET /forum/home.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.weaponscache.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:06:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.17 mod_perl/2.0.6 Perl/v5.8.8
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Set-Cookie: bbsessionhash=9d01ee5b59cbcf37a91c335caa1eaaac; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: bblastvisit=1365717984; expires=Fri, 11-Apr-2014 22:06:24 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bblastactivity=0; expires=Fri, 11-Apr-2014 22:06:24 GMT; path=/
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
X-UA-Compatible: IE=7
Set-Cookie: vbseo_loggedin=deleted; expires=Wed, 11-Apr-2012 22:06:23 GMT; path=/
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 9114
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Fx 20 masquerading as Fx 3.6 on Win 7

GET /forum/home.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.weaponscache.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.21) Gecko/20110830 Firefox/3.6.21
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:09:05 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.17 mod_perl/2.0.6 Perl/v5.8.8
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Set-Cookie: bbsessionhash=3ff989d8a4b908b2642744f98b0bcda8; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: bblastvisit=1365718145; expires=Fri, 11-Apr-2014 22:09:05 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bblastactivity=0; expires=Fri, 11-Apr-2014 22:09:05 GMT; path=/
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
X-UA-Compatible: IE=7
Set-Cookie: vbseo_loggedin=deleted; expires=Wed, 11-Apr-2012 22:09:05 GMT; path=/
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 9114
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Probably is what jscher2000 mentiones, I get the frontpage but then an infinite redirect, nothing loads. Seems like a site problem.

Thanks folks.

The admin is looking into this now.

Regards,

Josh