Quick Question About SBO Site Access

jssailem

jssailem

SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
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CAL 35 Cruiser #21 moored EVERETT WA
Could it be an Xfinity issue? I still get Portland, OR stalling out. The other sites work.
I would have first said it was a VPN issue, but when switching among VPN servers, they function.
 
Davidasailor26

Davidasailor26

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May 17, 2004
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Beneteau Oceanis 37 Havre de Grace
I haven’t had any problems with AT&T cellular, IQ Fiber, or Xfinity/Comcast landline or WiFi. So maybe it’s only some network segments or address ranges that are being blocked in one direction or another.
 
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...3TacksontheWater

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Sep 17, 2022
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Catalina 22 Oolagah
AT&T reaches the site finally after all week without access. Starlink still cannot access the site as of Friday May 29th @ 7:52 AM CDT. I'll have to download the Starlink app and play around with the router next week when I get up to the office.

George
 
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dLj

dLj

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Mar 23, 2017
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Belliure 41 Back in the Chesapeake
I just spent the day without SBO access running T-Mobile. As soon as I got back home and was on my wifi - not T-Mobile - I'm able to connect.

dj
 
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Dave

Forum Admin, Gen II
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Feb 1, 2023
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Mystery solved. Last weekend there was an update to the SBO servers which changed the IP address. The new address was propagated through the internet with some DNS servers getting up dated before others. If your DNS server was updated quickly, you saw little or no interruption in access. On the other hand if your server did not get updated quickly, then access was blocked until the DNS server was updated.
 
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colemj

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Jul 13, 2004
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Dolphin Catamaran Dolphin 460 Mystic, CT
dlochner said:
Change the DNS resolver in your system settings. Cloudfare's DNS resolver is 1.1.1.1 and Google's is 8.8.8.8
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This has solved many issues in the past for me. Now if I get a device, I just force everything through those two DNS addresses from the beginning.

Mark
 
kappykaplan

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May 1, 2011
5,434
Pearson 37 Lusby MD
Still having issues connecting through Comcast/Xfinity. Tried everything I can think of, as well as doing what Dave recommended.
 
Davidasailor26

Davidasailor26

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May 17, 2004
6,108
Beneteau Oceanis 37 Havre de Grace
kappykaplan said:
Still having issues connecting through Comcast/Xfinity. Tried everything I can think of, as well as doing what Dave recommended.
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Can you go to a command line and run nslookup forums.sailboatowners.com (or your platform’s equivalent? That should say the address your computer thinks SBO is at. If it’s 216.176.176.245 your computer is seeing the right address from DNS.
 
kappykaplan

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May 1, 2011
5,434
Pearson 37 Lusby MD
Davidasailor26 said:
Can you go to a command line and run nslookup forums.sailboatowners.com (or your platform’s equivalent? That should say the address your computer thinks SBO is at. If it’s 216.176.176.245 your computer is seeing the right address from DNS.
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Comes up as unknown. Shows ip address 2606:4700:4700:1112
 
BigEasy

BigEasy

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Jun 21, 2004
3,091
Beneteau 343 Slidell, LA
I can access SBO on my I pad using my Spectrum I phone as a hot spot; however, I can’t access when using my Spectrum wireless WIFI connection.
 
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colemj

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Jul 13, 2004
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Dolphin Catamaran Dolphin 460 Mystic, CT
I started having problems again two days ago connecting via Starlink. I am connected now through a VPN routed through Miami, but the site is very slow. I can't connect at all on Starlink.

Mark
 
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