Donald Lancaster wrote in news:OW0Kg.12228$r61.7769
@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

There's plenty going on now, 11 vessels, so I imagine the site was down.


Or your path to the site might have been interrupted. Boot the "command
prompt" (dare we say DOS 5.2?) and enter:

ping aisliverpool.org.uk

and see if you can ping the server. If it never makes it there, that's why
you don't have data. Mine looks like:

C:\ping aisliverpool.org.uk

Pinging aisliverpool.org.uk [194.154.164.82] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 194.154.164.82: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=48
Reply from 194.154.164.82: bytes=32 time=141ms TTL=48
Reply from 194.154.164.82: bytes=32 time=147ms TTL=48
Reply from 194.154.164.82: bytes=32 time=171ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 194.154.164.82:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 141ms, Maximum = 171ms, Average = 154ms

(I would have suggested tracert, the traceroute command, but many ISPs,
including mine, no longer allow traceroutes from their users because of
abuses we just can't seem to keep from doing.)

If, when the site is unreachable...and you don't get the IP above...it
means your ISP's DNS lookup server isn't taking the domain name and
resolving it to an IP. The internet has no idea where aisliverpool.org.uk
is located. You can also use http://194.154.164.82/ and try it directly,
but the other pages you want to go to all require DNS resolving to IP to
find so that won't help much. DNS failures are awful on some ISP systems.

You can put in your own DNS to your networking setup in Windoze, if you
like. The bigshot server is 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 for the whole internet.
It's open and anyone can use it to resolve addresses, bypassing the hosed
DNS at your cheapskate ISP...(c;

From my ping, I'd say it's about 150ms from Charleston, SC, to Atlanta, GA
to England and on to Liverpool......and back. Not bad at the speed of
light!

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