I haven’t been able to connect to the main http://www.chiffandfipple.com site all day. Is anyone else having problems or is it just me?
I’ve been able to connect to it just fine.
My guess would be a routing issue with your service provider… I have similar problems sometimes with mine.
Experience with several service providers over the years has taught me that they all like to do their repair and maintainence work on Sundays.
I wouldn’t advise calling them to complain about it though… some poor dumb tech support worker will just tell you to reboot your PC and re-install windows if that doesn’t solve the problem.
I’m serious… it’s never THEIR fault. 
[ This Message was edited by: raindog1970 on 2001-11-04 16:23 ]
One can use a program called “traceroute” to find out where the blockage is. It’s a unix program, but there is a similarly named port of it for Windows. It looks at the route between your box and the remote site, and gives the travel times to each node in between. When things go dead, there’s your problem.
Do a Google search on “traceroute” and you should find out more about it than you really want to know.
TraceRoute measures traces the path between your computer and the server with which you are try to connect. It also measures the “hop” times between each successive path node. TraceRoute is a useful tool for identifying Internet connection or performance problems. Under WinDoze try this:
(1) Click the START button and then click RUN to open the RUN window.
(2) In the OPEN text box type “tracert http://www.chiffandfipple.com” (without the quotation marks) and then click the OK button.
(3) Watch tracert run in a command window.
Another useful and related program is called “ping” which gives less information but will quickly determine whether an Internet site is available. Its syntax is basically the same as tracrt. For example, in RUN window OPEN box type “ping http://www.chiffandfipple.com” 