Web Mail Problem

[jimmm33]

I use fastmail.fm for email. I has worked great for about 2 years now. About month ago I started having the problem.

After logging in, about every 3rd click wont work. The browser just says "waiting for fastmail.fm... after about 5 minutes I get page cannot be displayed. However if i hit the Stop button on the browser and click again, it works instantly.

It happens on both machines in my house. One XP Pro with Firefox and One with Win2K and IE6. No other pages are having a problem. It has never happened on any machine outside of my home network.

I suspect DNS. I am running Windows 2000 Server as the domain controller. The clients DNS point to the server. Everything else works fine.

Is there a way I can manually add fastmail.fm to some DNS setting somewhere?

This has been driving me crazy.

[3fingersalute]

Try adding the actual DNS server addresses your ISP uses to your local computers network settings .

[jimmm33]

I tried that, no change. I have no errors in the DNS event viewer. I guess I'm not really certain it's a DNS problem.

It's just odd that it does not occur when I try it on a machine outside of my network.

[Green_Eyed]

If it was a DNS issue, you'd either not get the page at all, or you'd not be able to get on the Internet. To rule out DNS try pinging (from a command line) www.fastmail.fm. If you get the actual web address and the IP address, your DNS is fine. (For example, when I ping www.google.com, the response is: pinging www.google.akadns.net [66.7.102.99] and then the ping results. You should see something similar.

What about accessing other Internet sites on your network? Do you have similar results or are they behaving normally?

It almost sounds like something caching between your server and the workstation.

[jimmm33]

Thanks for the replies.

I think I am getting it figured out. I swapped out my Westell DSL/modem for an older Zyxel 645r I had laying around. No problems yet. It seems to be the Westell. I'm going to leave the Zyxel in for a couple days then switch back to be certain.

[Green_Eyed]

That sounds like a more likely culprit. Here's hoping you find out...