Unable to reach a site behind router - not sure why?

[Bablos]

Hi There...

Up until a few days ago, I could access www.mygamercard.net just fine. I assumed the site was down, but checked on my phone today, and it's up. Tried again when I got home, still no joy. Tried pinging the site, 100% packet loss.

I'm connected to the cable modem via a Linksys WRT300N, and the PC is cabled to the modem. I can access all other sites fine that I'm used to visiting, and no problem with games, messaging, emails, the works.

If I connect the PC directly to the modem, I can access the website, and it pings fine.

No amount of power cycling and rebooting changes things, and I've made no amendments to my router settings in order to have created such an issue.

Any idea what I can do to resolve this?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Adz]

A lot of hosting providers will permanently lock out a user after $x number of login failures to prevent brute force attacks. This lockout often has to be manually disabled by the hosting provider. This could be the case.

Otherwise it could be a routing issue between your ISP and the provider hosting the site.

In any case, the hosting provider is probably your first port of call .

 

[Bablos]

Hi There...

I'm not trying to log into a hosting provider though - all I'm doing is trying to access a website. Surely if all works well when I bypass the router, then it's down to an issue with the router itself?

 

[Adz]

When you bypass the router it's possible your IP address changes. It's certainly worth investigating.

Are you using your router for DNS? Have you set up any static routes?

 

[Bablos]

Hi There...

No static routes set up. Router gets settings automatically from my ISP - it's obtained the DNS settings from there.

 

[tolien]

Router gets settings automatically from my ISP - it's obtained the DNS settings from there.

But your machine will get it's settings from the router, and it's not unknown for a router's DNS proxy to be broken.