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Roxas_XIII
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11 Oct 2009, 5:47 pm

Ok, I tried to get on WP late last night. I cant remember exactly when, but I'm pretty sure it was between 0200 and 0300 Mountain Daylight Time (about 0800 to 0900 GMT), because I had just finished watching Bleach on CNAS here. Every time I tried to access the site, it would pull up a web search from my ISP. This included typing the URL into the address bar, using a link from my Favorites, and using links from my browsing history.

Now it's working fine, but I'm just curious... what the hell happened?


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11 Oct 2009, 6:28 pm

Roxas_XIII wrote:
... Every time I tried to access the site, it would pull up a web search from my ISP. ...

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

It might be that your ISP's domain name servers were down at the time?

You could try just a "ping www.wrongplanet.net", if it happens again.


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11 Oct 2009, 11:40 pm

Your ISP may have been acting up. I know my ISP does some weird things that mess up Firefox's smart location bar and redirect me to a useless Yahoo search.


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12 Oct 2009, 1:54 am

It was slow or inaccessible from my location too at the same time