AOL problems connecting to SOG sites

[Steven Sweeney]

And one for the road:

While on through Explorer, I successfully accessed all sites in the "asopa et al" list. Then I went to AOL and was able to do the same . . . AND when I tried SOG through AOL, it was able to get there (having refused to do so -- "Website not found" -- only a few minutes ago.)

I suspect a squirrel.

[Mike McCarty]

Could you please confirm that you are able to bring them up using Internet Explorer, even tho you couldn't get them in AOL.

Cynthia,

I just tried each of the sites you listed above using Internet Explorer and each came up straight away.

[Cynthia Daniel]

Mike,

Try the following in AOL and then in IE and please report the results:

www.johnhowardsanden.com
www.jhsanden.com
www.danielgreeneartist.com
www.portraitinstitute.com
www.portraitclubs.com

Interestingly, St. Louis Internet hosts the site for newground.com, but does not provide the DNS service for them. Based on that, I'm beginning to suspect it's a routing problem as opposed to DNS problem.

[Mike McCarty]

All were unsuccessful in AOL. All were successful through the Internet Explorer.

[Cynthia Daniel]

This was found on a website and perhaps sheds a bit of light, but not a solution: http://www.digitalpoint.com/lists/19237.html

[Steven Sweeney]

Not to belabor this, but any little clue can be interesting to you computer savants out there.

This is the heading on the error page that AOL returns:

AOL Search
Advanced Search | Main | Help

*
* Web
* Images
* Audio/Video
* Shopping
* News
* In Your Area
* People

Can't Find the Web Site forum.portraitartist.com
500 Unknown Host

* The site may no longer exist or it may have moved.
* Double-check for any misspellings, punctuation errors, or extra spaces.
* If these suggestions do not work, try restarting your computer.

As of about a quarter past 7 this evening (Monday), AOL won't access SOG, but IE does fine.

I mention the text above simply in case the "500" error code might be useful to someone.

[Cynthia Daniel]

According to a web search, it means:

Internal Error 500: The server was unable to send the html document to you due to an internal (server software) error.

It's a pretty generic message, unfortunately.

[Mike McCarty]

I've also noticed (not every time) that the screen that you describe above seems to cover up the title "Portrait Artist Forum - Powered by eBulletin" for example, of the site you are trying to find. This happens almost instantaneously. That's always been a curious thing to me. It's like it's saying -- here it is, oops, never mind.