AD Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Thanks in advance.... I first ran into this problem last year - When I try to view the Ottawa Folk Festival's website from my home connection it shows me the pre-announcement webpage from 2009. When I go to the artists page it shows me the 2009 info at the 2007 link. http://www.ottawafolk.org/2007/generalinfo.html It's all messed up. I just wanna look at the current version of the webpage. It shows up normally on my iphone and from my work computer so wouldn't expect the problem to be on their end. Any ideas what the issue could be? My computer is up to date, defragged, maintained regularly for normal computer health things, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Photogeek Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Total shot in the dark here, but try hitting ctrl F5 That should refresh your page and clear your cache...I am wondering if your browser is maybe using a cached version of the page... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Nope, cache / temp / history is cleared every day. Registry is cleaned every day. Defrag done monthly. System cleaned and free space overwritten many times daily. Virus checker / spybot / ad-aware runs daily.I cleared the cache just now to try your suggestion anyways, and no change. Thanks though, I'll try any and all good ideas. Makes me wonder if there are other sites that I look at or that I will look at where I won't be seeing the most up to date version... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Aside from Chrome, have you tried firefox, IE, safari, or Opera?If you're still seeing the internet from 2009, start checking for wormholes, and rips in the time-space continuum. How many gigawatts are you running? 1.21 is too much and will throw your computer in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Page loads the same on Chrome, Firefox and IE. I don't have any other browsers on my system to try. But since those 3 agree I'm guessing it's not the browser's fault.My gigawatts are out of control, now that you mention it. Hmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 I'm not sure what the problem could be (or was perhaps) but when I click the link in your original post this is what I get. Are you still getting the page you posted? The only link from the above pic that seems to work for me is "Home". That link takes me to the site homepage and from there the other options seem to work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 I'm not sure what the problem could be (or was perhaps) but when I click the link in your original post this is what I get.me too. I don't understand why http://www.ottawafolk.org/ would redirect you anywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 It's all messed up. I just wanna look at the current version of the webpage. It shows up normally on my iphone and from my work computer so wouldn't expect the problem to be on their end.It might be that the problem is with your ISP. That would be another difference between your work and home computers. Might have something to do with their DNS name servers. Or not. Can't hurt to send them an e-mail either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 ottawafolk.org pseudocode:if (user = "AD") then displayoldsite()else displaynewsite()endif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Esau and Bouche: Still messed up. When I click that link in my first post (It's the "Summer Festival" link from the homepage, the first screenshot I posted) this is the page that comes up. I'll send an email to my ISP to see about that DNS thingamajig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basher Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 I wonder if you have some weird entry in your hosts file. Do you recall ever making a change there?Do a search for a file called "hosts" and open it in notepad. Post any lines that don't start with # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Here's my hosts file:# Copyright © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.## This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.## This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one# space.## Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.## For example:## 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host127.0.0.1 localhost::1 localhostThere was also a hosts.msn file but it was identical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basher Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Okay, the line below is suspect although I doubt it is causing your trouble:::1 localhostPut a # in front of that line (i.e. # ::1 localhost), then save the file. When you save it, click save as, and make sure you change the file type from txt file to all files, because that file has no extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_rawk Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 ::1 is the IPv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1 as I understand it. Shouldn't be causing any issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 It seems I don't have the proper administrative rights to change things on my own computer, so I can't edit the hosts file right now. But, I did search out that ::1 thing and found that ::1 is the ipv6 notation of 127.0.0.1, so removing it won't make any difference in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Can someone post a screenshot of what the ottawafolk homepage should look like please? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_rawk Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 (edited) Edited May 13, 2010 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 thank you sir...... email sent to ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basher Posted May 14, 2010 Report Share Posted May 14, 2010 AD, at this point I would have to 100% concur that the issue appears to lie in your ISP's DNS server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted May 14, 2010 Report Share Posted May 14, 2010 or your ATI drivers. ... sorry, is that an old and unrelated joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAlphaNerd Posted May 14, 2010 Report Share Posted May 14, 2010 is there a file called win32.dll on your computer? J/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted June 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 Well, after 5 phone calls and lots of emails, the problem has been solved. Something to do with a Rogers cache not being cleared somewhere along the way from somewhere to my modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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