Digital Spy website down?

icefall

Its working for me atm.

limecurry

I can't get on at all.

Got on for about 10 minutes this morning at work, 10 minutes last night at home.

When will it be back to normal?
I don't want to do Bex's suggestion as I don't have a clue what I'm doing!

superscaper

limecurry wrote: »

When will it be back to normal?

How long's a piece of string? Depends on how often your ISP refreshes their DNS lists.

Rowan126

Both forums and the main site have been down for me all day.

wherediditallgo

BexTech wrote: »

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=24041943&postcount=4

Hi,

We are aware of this issue.

There was a problem with one of the DNS servers used by one of our suppliers. It was giving out invalid information and until your PC, ISP or corporate DNS cache refreshes you may be unable to access Digital Spy. We are sorry about this but it is unfortunately beyond our control. One thing you could do is use a different DNS cache through a service provider like OpenDNS.

OpenDNS is a free service which offers 'Easy Setup' instructions for most operating systems and network set-ups at http://www.opendns.com/start/.

Making use of this service might help in this case and if not we have found it still to be a very reliable, fast and enhanced DNS service. Please note that if you are using Sky Broadband with a router you can not modify router settings. Instead, just alter the DNS settings on your PC to get the effect you need as outlined on OpenDNS.com.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for posting this. I've managed to get back on there using the OpenDNS settings on my computer - it's not flowing as smoothly as usual, but at least I can see the thing now.

I-LOV-MONEY

zounds wrote: »

I'm using http://zend2.com online proxy myself
http://www.freeproxyserver.net was also mentioned earlier in the thread.

With DS being down again, I found this thread, and these two work for me.

BexTech

I-LOV-MONEY wrote: »

With DS being down again, I found this thread, and these two work for me.

Found you can change .co.uk to .tv and it should work OK.

However you have to keep altering the .co.uk on your links, so is easier to use Open DNS.

You can use proxy servers, though these can be slow.

I-LOV-MONEY

BexTech wrote: »

Found you can change .co.uk to .tv and it should work OK.

Unfortunately not. I am okay with the proxy servers for the moment.

petestan

BexTech wrote: »

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=24041943&postcount=4

Hi,

We are aware of this issue.

There was a problem with one of the DNS servers used by one of our suppliers. It was giving out invalid information and until your PC, ISP or corporate DNS cache refreshes you may be unable to access Digital Spy. We are sorry about this but it is unfortunately beyond our control. One thing you could do is use a different DNS cache through a service provider like OpenDNS.

Hi bextech, they have had this problem previously can they not fix it or is it nothing to do with them?

BexTech

petestan wrote: »

Hi bextech, they have had this problem previously can they not fix it or is it nothing to do with them?

Yeah, they've had this problem before, it's to do with the named servers used by the hosting company.