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Safari can’t open BlogSpot hosted sites!

Since this morning I can't view mine or any other BlogSpot hosted sites! The following error message keeps being displayed:

Safari can’t open the page http://johnhood.blogspot.com/. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005)

Blogger's Status page suggests no problems (at present) and Windows users have been able to view my site sans problems.

I have sent a bug report to Apple. However, I'd be most grateful if someone would please check to see whether or not my site loads OK? Thank you.

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz, 1GB, 250GB, 20"W TFT, SuperDrive, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 28, 2007 1:23 PM

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John Hood Author

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Mar 2, 2007 11:13 AM in response to Hawaiian_Starman

Joseph,

Really appreciate your help with this matter. And thank you for confirming - with the screenshot - that the problem appears to be specific to my ISP and/or Blogger.

Best,

John

Mar 2, 2007 12:01 PM in response to John Hood

You're welcome John. Glad to help.

Thanks for the

and Aloha from Big Island.

carol UK

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Mar 3, 2007 2:34 AM in response to John Hood

Hi John, do you have email address for blogger? I couldn't find it on the web - could get to the blogger home page - but no further. thought i would add my voice although I don't have a website myself.
thanks, carol

andyBall_uk

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Mar 3, 2007 4:52 AM in response to carol UK

Hi Carol & John

In your cable modem/router ( dunno what you use?) there might be a setting for dns numbers in addition to those you've seen in OSX network settings.

If there are, it's worth setting/changing those to something other than the off-the-shelf Virgin ones.

Some UK based dns# for you

Plusnet/Force9 212.159.13.50 212.159.6.9

?? I forget whose these are 194.74.65.68 194.74.65.69

many routers/modems are set up by entering 192.168.1.1 into a browser - but hopefully Virgin give some info on this.

Andy

andyBall_uk

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Mar 3, 2007 4:58 AM in response to andyBall_uk

also try entering 66.102.15.100 into your browser address bar - this should go direct to blogspot, and then get routed to blogger.com

Have you tried using Network Utility ( in Utilities folder ) to Ping "blogspot.com", if no results, use 66.102.15.100 too.

carol UK

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Mar 3, 2007 9:15 AM in response to andyBall_uk

Hi - I used the 194 alternate DNS on the router and didn't work. I will try the 212 when I get back later just dashing out. used the 66 address to get onto Blogger but when i used to go from there to Belmont Club - bang back to the same old error.

tried pinging it - according to data pings were sent and received. here is the data below. I am not a technial person but a long time mac user - I have racked my common sense databank and come up empty - I don't recall altering anything on my settings but and had been connecting to the sites for months and in one case years with no problem.... have same problem with Firefox as with safari - have same problem with my laptop (Intel) and emac and imac (Power pc). happens with any site that has blogspot in its title. wierd. The ISP says it has nothing to do with them.. I dunno...thanks for yr efforts.
PING blogspot.com (66.102.15.100): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=156.206 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=160.785 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=148.453 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=148.312 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=147.731 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=153.593 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=6 ttl=243 time=146.845 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=7 ttl=243 time=151.779 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=8 ttl=243 time=153.482 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.15.100: icmp_seq=9 ttl=243 time=153.219 ms

--- blogspot.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 146.845/152.041/160.785/4.148 ms

John Hood Author

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Mar 3, 2007 11:58 AM in response to andyBall_uk

Hi Andy and Carol,

Andy. Appreciate your feedback. I too have tried the DNS addresses to no avail! I'm using a Motorola modem and, like Carol, have not made any changes to my modem settings prior to this week's apparent issues with BlogSpot servers. I have posted a thread on Google Groups where another Mac User, also using Virgin Media, has exactly the same issue that Carol and myself are facing!

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_frm/thread/f7087 e130dcf6942/c29ebf36114b7190#c29ebf36114b7190

I have noted that modem configuration is reporting the following update failure:

2007-03-03 14:47:16 4-Error E107.0 SW upgrade Failed after download - Incompatible SW file

2007-03-03 14:47:15 6-Notice E102.0 SW Download INIT - Via Config file cm-2148-256

Also, I've noticed that the modem's lights are often flickering out of sink and connection has been lost. Guessing there's some network fragility!

Thanks for all your help.

John

carol UK

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Mar 4, 2007 4:51 AM in response to John Hood

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/1a 704a6b9376c677

Dear John, went to thread you linked and becasue i had to create a google account didn't go back to yr page but went to this one instead. Same problem! I am going to alert them to the other thread so perhasp with joined voices we can find a solution. I hope so.
carol

carol UK

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Mar 4, 2007 4:53 AM in response to John Hood

forgot to mention that they are windows users on that thread.. so def not just a mac problem...
c

John Hood Author

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Mar 4, 2007 10:36 AM in response to carol UK

Carol,

Just tried viewing BlogSpot sites this evening. And they're now loading OK.

Thanks for your help with this matter. Shame I can't say the same about Virgin Media, but then they've got more to worry about then some pesky Mac Users! HEE HEE

Best Wishes,

John

Mar 4, 2007 6:12 PM in response to John Hood

Just tried viewing BlogSpot sites this evening. And they're now loading OK.

Glad you sorted this out John.
Aloha from Big Island.

carol UK

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Mar 5, 2007 3:34 AM in response to John Hood

yeah mine loads as well...hurrah! but still would be nice to know what happened!
supposedly bogger got on it.. so they may be the culprit not VM.
best wishes to you and thanks to those who tried to help..
carol

Mar 9, 2007 9:30 AM in response to carol UK

Still not working totally here, for me.

www.blogger.com won;t work but buzz.blogger.com will

Safari can’t open BlogSpot hosted sites!