Logging On

[Shawnie]

Hi all! im wondering if any of you that are able to log on now, are using vista as an operating system?
The reason im asking is we have some members/mods who still arent able to log on and the common demoniator seems to be vista is their OS ....thanks a bunch! lets hope everyone can get back soon!!

[Nate McFin]

I am using Vista and was able to get on night before last. Welcome back Shawnie we saved all of the water changes for you!

[Shawnie]

Originally Posted by Nate McFin

I am using Vista and was able to get on night before last. Welcome back Shawnie we saved all of the water changes for you!

your such a brat nate!~ you know how I just ~ADORE~ water changes

did you have to do anything or any cleaning out of your pc to log on nate? grrrrr I am lost now if you have vista LOL but thats nothing new

[Nate McFin]

I didnt have to do anything at all thankfully or I would have been terribly lost as well!

[Lucy]

Well Nate, you blew my theory out the window! lol
I thought for sure it was something to do with Vista.
My daughter can log in fine on her desktop running xp.
I still can't log on with my laptop running vista.

Ted was kind enough to try and help. He says I probably have to wait it out.
Makes me wonder how many existing/new members think the forum is still gone.

[Shawnie]

blew my theory also....hmmm did vista just have an update recently?

[Lucy]

Yes, but it was after I had problems logging in.

[mathas]

For those of you who have Vista issues or are communicating with someone who has Vista issues, do you get a reply if you ping the site by IP address?

1. Hold down the windows key on the keyboard and press R to bring up the Run box
2. Type cmd and press enter
3. Type ping 174.123.200.146 and press enter

You should hopefully see four lines that look similar to

Reply from 174.123.200.146: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=51

If so, then it would appear at first glance to be a DNS issue (meaning your ISP likely doesn't yet know that "www.fishlore.com" is supposed to direct you to 174.123.200.146). You can either wait for your ISP to update (which usually only takes 48-72 hours), or you could try switching DNS servers to something like OpenDNS. I've used OpenDNS for years, and I can attest that they are resolving the new server address correctly.

https://www.opendns.com/start/
https://www.opendns.com/start/device/windows-vista

[Lucy]

Thank Mathas.
I haven't tried your suggestion yet, but my daughter can bring up the forum. We're on the same wireless network, same ISP.
She's running xp on a desk top, I'm running vista on a laptop.

Wouldn't that mean our ISP does indeed know it's supposed to direct me here?

[mathas]

Originally Posted by Lucy

Thank Mathas.
I haven't tried your suggestion yet, but my daughter can bring up the forum. We're on the same wireless network, same ISP.
She's running xp on a desk top, I'm running vista on a laptop.

Wouldn't that mean our ISP does indeed know it's supposed to direct me here?

Most likely it would! I should have worded my post to say "either your ISP or your computer doesn't know...". While your ISP will have a cache of domain name/ip address relationships, your computer likely does too.

Have you tried flushing your local DNS cache? If not:

1. Hold down the windows key on the keyboard and press R to bring up the Run box
2. Type cmd and press enter
3. Type ipconfig /flushdns and press enter

Does that do any good for getting you logged in?

[Lucy]

I sent you a pm about the instructions you gave me and the reply I received.

I tried the flush thing last night (Ted gave instructions for that)
It said it was successful, but didn't help with the log in.

[mathas]

It's been a while since I've used Vista, and forgot to ask a key question... do you know if your user account has administrative privileges?

[Lucy]

Yes it does

[mathas]

Originally Posted by Lucy

Yes it does

Well, there goes that theory What happens when you do this:

1. Hold down the windows key on the keyboard and press R to bring up the Run box
2. Type cmd and press enter
3. Type nslookup and press enter
4. Type www.fishlore.com and press enter
5. Press CTRL+C to exit nslookup

The screen should look somewhat similar to this, though I blurred my DNS server name since I'm at work and using their servers with proprietary server/domain names.

[Lifesabeach]

Sorry I've come in so late on this one. I might appear as though I'm logged into FL, but I was actually asleep in front of the telly! I will be absolutely no help and also say that I have Vista, and was able to get onto FL when I arrived home from work yesterday.
This morning, I was able to get onto FL from my office PC, and that has Window 2000? I think! I didn't have to go through any process from either location.

[Lucy]

It says:
Default server: Unknown
Address:

> www.fishlore.com
Server Unknown
Address:

***Unknown can't find www.fishlore.com: Server failed


I left out the IP address. I don't think it's mine and It's not FL's
If it's important, I'll pm it to you.

[mathas]

Originally Posted by Lucy

I left out the IP address. I don't think it's mine and It's not FL's
If it's important, I'll pm it to you.

It's not important. Let's try a different route:

1. Hold down the windows key on the keyboard and press R to bring up the Run box
2. Type cmd and press enter
3. Type ipconfig /all and press enter

Take note of the values by 'DNS Servers'. Can you either follow the same steps on your daughter's computer or ask her to? I'd be curious to know if you're both using the same DNS servers... I can't see why you wouldn't be, but stranger things have happened.

[Lucy]

Ummmm....ok
Something to note on the differences between to the computers:
Mine has built in wireless. Her's I had to hook up an adapter to pick up the wireless.

Any way
My DNS server is the address I left out in my previous post.
Hers is different and doesn't look like an IP address with all the numbers. Just single numbers separated by a . (dot)