AOL problems connecting to SOG sites

[Mike McCarty]

Nope. Windows XP, AOL 9.0 Security (newest)

[Cynthia Daniel]

Mike,

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

St. Louis Internet's Greg Chatten just signed up for AOL and had no problem getting to the site.

[Michele Rushworth]

So, does this mean that all my clients and prospective clients who use AOL would have a problem when they tried to access my SOG site?

I just did a 2,000 piece mailing and a good portion of those people will be using AOL. I hope this doesn't mean that, if any of them should be interested in commissioning me and try to pull up my website to look at, that they'd be unable to do so.

[Cynthia Daniel]

Not necessarily. You posted at the same time as me, so you didn't see in my post just prior where I said that Greg Chatten, owner of St. Louis Internet where my sites are hosted, signed up for AOL and he had no problems with accessing Stroke of Genius. A few months ago, I also signed up for their 30 day free trial and during 30 days, only once did I have a problem accessing the site.

Rest assured, this is not a problem with the hosting company - it lies either with AOL or a route along the way.

[Steven Sweeney]

Just to add my experience:

I've just tried both the usual URL and the numeric alternative. Neither accessed SOG through AOL (the browser for which is Mozilla, I believe), but both did so through Internet Explorer.

[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