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Avcom Problem

Postby ICEMAN » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:08 pm

Is anyone else having problems logging into AVCOM? :? :? I cant get in directly, i just get error messages- they only way i can access it is by using any one of the posted links on Microlighters to get into an avcom topic and then select the option to go to their from page :? :? ........ its been like this for about three days now?.......
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Postby Morph » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:17 pm

Strange a number of the guys from Jhb have been able to get into Avcom and not here :?
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Postby Aerosan » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:26 am

No Problem from my side, as a matter of fact I can now use Firefox to browse AVCOM in the past it would say connection lost etc.....
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Postby jpage » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:15 am

I had the same problem for a week, then cleared all the cookies etc. from my computer using the clear private data function on firefox. Worked after that.
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Postby ICEMAN » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:33 am

The webpage cannot be found
HTTP 404
Most likely causes:
There might be a typing error in the address.
If you clicked on a link, it may be out of date.

What you can try:
Retype the address.

Go back to the previous page.

Go to and look for the information you want.

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This error (HTTP 404 Not Found) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but the page you wanted was not found. It's possible that the webpage is temporarily unavailable. Alternatively, the website might have changed or removed the webpage.

For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.

Nope- still no joy- guess i will have to keep using the back door! :?
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Postby skybound® » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:09 am

Iceman - that looks like you have the wrong URL (web address). Manually type in www.avcom.co.za into your browser and see if that works iso using your favorite/shortcut.

If you check the properties of your favorite it is possible you have an old link - that directly referenced the old version of the software like www.avcom.co.za/phpBB2/forum=f1.......... then that will not work.
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Postby ICEMAN » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:36 am

Skybound- nope have tripple checked the correct webpage address...... have manually typed it in and also tried via the "my favorites" (which is saved as www.avcom.co.za )route which worked until approx 3 days ago.
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Postby Woody » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:51 am

Morning Stan
Ja it shows you,you got caught in the cookie jar :lol:
You better get that link restored and come home with good news
OR ELSE :wink:
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Postby ICEMAN » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:14 pm

You better get that link restored and come home with good news
OR ELSE
........................ :lol: ........ dont sweaty woody, its coming together.... :lol:
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Postby skybound® » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:06 pm

sounds really weird iceman. when you typed in manually did you put the http:// prefix in? That would be about the only diffs from clicking a link and just typing it in from the www
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Postby ICEMAN » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:30 pm

And- any ideas? Cant be user or IP blocked coz i can still get in from posted links....... :evil: [/img]
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Postby skybound® » Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:57 pm

Perhaps an Mweb customer? Have had endless amounts of issues with them with their aggressive cacheing of sites. At one stage whilst I was still a subscriber of theirs, made a change to a site from work network and it took 3 days before I saw the change via a Mweb connection. That was even after clearing my own cache etc. Even tried from a mates machine on mweb and still no luck.
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Postby ICEMAN » Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:07 pm

Nope not Mweb- running through the company server ......... from my Office V-Sat to Cabinda then to Aberdeen .... it was fine until a few days ago......... guess i will just keep using the avcom "backdoor" route for now :evil:
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Postby Gadget » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:13 pm

Hi.
Morph and me did some extensive testing and it seems the problem is with doing dns lookups on international dns servers (Domain Name Servers)

I have created custom dns records on one of my hosting servers for the microlighters.co.za domain and tested it and it works fine. I cannot do this for avcom however, not without their permission. If you are having problems surfing the microlighters site you can change your dns server settings to point to my dns server and you should be fine. PM me if you are still stuck and I wil help.

The problem is localized in johannesburg and is mostly due to either SAIX or ISP lookups being faulty. Morph will discuss this with demon and we will try to move the records locally.
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Postby Tailspin » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:57 am

I know SIAX has problems with their DNS servers on a regular basis.
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