does anyone know if some ISP's would block deals.woot.com for any reason, I am on time warner in santa clarita, and I have never been able to get to deals.woot.com ever on any computer on my network. yet I can get the fine through my cel phone, and daves proxy. but never.

DNS gives non-authoritive answer of 174.129.241.0
I think that is the corrct DNS but still I cannot route there ever on my network without proxy.

kernelsandirs wrote:does anyone know if some ISP's would block dals.woot.com for any reason, I am on time warner in santa clarita, and I have never been able to get to deals.woot.com ever on any computer on my network. yet I can get the fine through my cel phone, and daves proxy. but never.

DNS gives non-authoritive answer of 174.129.241.0
I think that is the corrct DNS but still I cannot route there ever on my network without proxy.

I've answered this before, elsewhere, but might as well do it here, again.

Long, long ago, during a time when IP addresses were considered to have CLASS, and everyone KNEW that this would never change, certain things were also known, with just as great a certainty. One of those was that (and this is VASTLY simpligied) anything ending in zero, or 255, implied some pretty specific things, and those addresses were not used.

The reasons for this disappeared long ago, as did the method of having "classful" networks.

It isn't Time Warner itself that's causing you this heartburn, it's whatever crappy hardware that they've got between you and the real world. It might just be the crappy cable modem, but it could also be something else out of your control.

Here's a brief Wikipedia page about Classful Routing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful_network

What you should do is to start complaining, and tell the help desk that they've broken the Internet.

Thanks, been a while since my CCNA expired(like almost 10 years) thought mainly we did not use the zero or 255 in the case of a single /24 block so the zero in this case I assumed was part of a larger block and a lower range was the wire address and a higher one, the broadcast, in any case, I think I see where the issue lies, I will have to most likely have to just proxy in as TW will never fix their stuff.

shrdlu wrote:I've answered this before, elsewhere, but might as well do it here, again.

Long, long ago, during a time when IP addresses were considered to have CLASS, and everyone KNEW that this would never change, certain things were also known, with just as great a certainty. One of those was that (and this is VASTLY simpligied) anything ending in zero, or 255, implied some pretty specific things, and those addresses were not used.

I was able to access deals.woot.com easily until I went to check today and it wasn't there - nothing shows up - no error message or anything - just a blank page.

I'm not sure why Charter would all of a sudden change and make the site, alone of all the woot sites, not show up

and now it shows up once I went through a cached Google page

kernelsandirs wrote:does anyone know if some ISP's would block deals.woot.com for any reason, I am on time warner in santa clarita, and I have never been able to get to deals.woot.com ever on any computer on my network. yet I can get the fine through my cel phone, and daves proxy. but never.

DNS gives non-authoritive answer of 174.129.241.0
I think that is the corrct DNS but still I cannot route there ever on my network without proxy.

We recently made some changes in an attempt to fix this for you. Curious to find out if our changes solved the problem.

shawnmiller wrote:We recently made some changes in an attempt to fix this for you. Curious to find out if our changes solved the problem.

Considering the "change" you made, I would expect almost anyone who was having difficulty in reaching deals.woot.com to have that now corrected. If you have had Deals suddenly disappear, you will want to follow the directions below as well. For those of you following along:

Please, whichever browser you're using, clear the cache. You might need to clear your cookies as well. Close the browser. Open the browser again, and click on the link:

http://deals.woot.com/

I'd personally be fascinated to know whether anyone who was having trouble is now successful, and also the alternative. I'm flat positive that the Deals team would be interested as well.