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Title: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: solidteezme on March 30, 2010, 02:53:24 am

As title explains, im on aol in the uk and recently have been unable to go onto any of the byoac sites (wiki, forum etc) :hissy: i read somewere else about the same problem but no imformation was given. so im just seeing if anyone knows anything? I have a project im itching to post but can't!! ???
Solid,

Title: Re: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: Franco B on March 30, 2010, 03:53:15 am

I'm also in the UK and I have the same problem when trying to access byoac through aol when I'm visiting the GFs family.

I did manage to get onto byoac by using a proxy server. Probably not ideal but it worked for the access I need.

Title: Re: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: solidteezme on March 30, 2010, 04:50:27 am

Ill have to try that then, ent going to be ideal tho. bet it takes hours to post thru one of those. :banghead:
Solid,

Title: Re: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: Malenko on March 30, 2010, 08:22:24 am

Quote from: solidteezme on March 30, 2010, 04:50:27 am

Ill have to try that then, ent going to be ideal tho. bet it takes an extra few seconds to post thru one of those. :banghead:
Solid,

fixt.

Title: Re: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: Franco B on March 30, 2010, 08:27:35 am

Ya. It's the only time I have used a proxy to be honest and I can't really say I noticed much difference.

Title: Re: Can\'t access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: solidteezme on March 30, 2010, 01:29:05 pm

Works for text, but not for posting pictures. just times out.

Title: Re: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: saint on March 30, 2010, 01:59:21 pm

It's likely a DNS issue of some weird kind.

Try this -- drop to a command prompt, and ping forum.arcadecontrols.com. If it returns an IP address then we can verify it's the right IP address. If it has no IP address then that's a problem too.

It should resolve to 74.208.166.36 ... If it doesn't, you can put this entry in your C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file (note - not hosts.sam or hosts.txt, just "hosts") which should fix it. I helped another person using AOL UK with this issue and this was the resolution.

The entry:

74.208.166.36    arcadecontrols.com forum.arcadecontrols.com wiki.arcadecontrols.com files.arcadecontrols.com byoac.com

save the file then try again.

Title: Re: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: Malenko on March 30, 2010, 03:10:33 pm

or try open DNS

Title: Re: Can't access BYOAC forum at home.
Post by: solidteezme on April 01, 2010, 03:41:04 am

Ill try your suggestions when i get home, cheers guys. ;)

Solid,