why I'm not posting

[OldReno]

Why I'm not posting

Dear friends,
I have been absent from NLG lately, and it's not because I want to be.
Some weeks ago I was doing a lot of posting here, and then suddenly my internet service, Charter, must have put some kind of block on me.
Every time I try it reads "could not connect to newlifegames.net.  I have also tried on our other computer, with the same message, so it's not just my laptop that is the problem.
And, with their computer answering service (no people to talk to apparently) it is impossible to let them know we cannot connect.
Any suggestions will be helpful, I am missing my daily NLG experience, and am Jonesing pretty bad.
So, am writing this letter at home, and will take my laptop over to a friends to see if I can get online with his service.
If that works, then maybe once a week or so I can take the laptop to his place and catch up on things here.
Miss you guys, but those rat bastards are next to impossible to contact to resolve this problem.
Hope all are well, and I cannot even get personal messages from you, since I cannot even get to the page.
This really sucks.
If you need to reach me, try cobergland AT yahoo dot com with a PM, and I'll get back to you.
Yours,
OldReno

[brichter]

Are you using Mac or Windows?

From either the command prompt in Windows or a terminal prompt on Mac, type the command:

nslookup newlifegames.net

and paste the output here.

[OldReno]

Using windows.  Am here at our makerspace place where they DON'T use Charter as a provider, and NO problems getting on.  Will try your suggestion when I get home and see what comes up.  Thank you Brichter for the tip, I'm jonesing really bad not being on here.....

[cowboygames]

Maybe a firewall issue?

[brichter]

 Most likely a DNS issue. nslookup will verify that, and there's a workaround... 

[OldReno]

Well, holy crap, after coming home from Makerspace today, just for giggles I tried to log on, and by golly, it worked.
Don't know what that was all about.  Maybe one of you gurus fixed it on your end...?
Any way, if it ever happens again, I'll log on from another server again.
Wow.

[brichter]

Cool!

If it does happen again, post up the output from nslookup and we can go from there.

[OldReno]

thanks Brichter!