what happened to vanillia forums?

maxxmann · #1 (**permalink**) 12-30-2007, 08:53 PM

Was a good source fro software, but has been down for days anyone know if its coming back up?

**Essential Clix** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-30-2007, 09:01 PM

You mean vanillashare.com?

It still works fine for me.

maxxmann · #3 (**permalink**) 12-30-2007, 11:07 PM

yes thats the site I am talking about. I keepgetting an error page, for me its down.

**groverinri** · #4 (**permalink**) 12-30-2007, 11:30 PM

It is up and people have been posting..

maxxmann · #5 (**permalink**) 12-30-2007, 11:33 PM

hmm this is strange , I am getting a HTTP-error 406. I dont quite understand this

maxxmann · #6 (**permalink**) 12-30-2007, 11:41 PM

ok now this is getting weird. When I go in over a proxy all is ok, but if I type direct I get error page?? any ideas?

**Olly** · #7 (**permalink**) 12-30-2007, 11:48 PM

Working fine for me. Try using a proxy to see if it's a problem with your IP connecting to it.

www.hidemyass.com

**sinewave** · #8 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007, 02:25 AM

vanillashare is up for me too. no issues.

Best,
Sine

**andygabon** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007, 03:52 AM

yup dude. it's still up. I just post a few replies there...

**kase** · #10 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007, 06:39 AM

www.VanillaShare.com < I think you spelt it wrong...? you said Van-ill-ia

**Essential Clix** · #11 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007, 06:44 AM

If you can't get in with your own IP, perhaps your IP was banned? Have you been a bad boy?

maxxmann · #12 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007, 09:16 AM

seems my ip has been banned. Dont know what that was far. hell I onlya joined a while back. Oh well have to try proxy more often. Thanks for help guys

maxxmann · #13 (**permalink**) 12-31-2007, 02:49 PM

kingdom seo; yes I am a member and yes I know how to type in a url.
looks like either my norton is blocking it or they have for some reason blocked the ip. I have not done anything so I suspect its norton somehow? will post when I get it figured out.

sai · #14 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 02:44 PM

www.vanillashare.com change to http://www.cwalls.com/ ???

down or shut down??

why?

gurispopis · #15 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 02:58 PM

yea, redirect cwalls...

finalanswer · #16 (**permalink**) 04-29-2008, 03:37 PM

Here's another possibility, your ISP is blocking/blacklisted that site. I've seen it done on other sharing forums.

Or your ISP's upstream DNS tables are corrupted and don't have an entry for the forum you want to access.

In order to know if your IP address has been banned by the forum, you need to get a new IP address from your ISP.

Or you could use an alternate name server like 4.2.2.1 (as opposed to the one your ISP gave you.

And if you find more and more of the sharing sites are blacklisted from your ISP then, either get a new ISP or get a $9/month VPN service (where your traffic is encrypted end to end - this is also away of avoiding some detection methods of bandwidth shaping). If your ISP can't read the data stream, they may not shape your bandwidth.

finalanswer