avisynth.org down?

[krosswindz]

I am wondering if avisynth.org is down. I have been unable to access it over a week. Wondering if anyone else has noticed it.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I am wondering if avisynth.org is down. I have been unable to access it over a week. Wondering if anyone else has noticed it.

No problem for me. Might be a "local" problem on your side :confused:

[Sharc]

I am wondering if avisynth.org is down. I have been unable to access it over a week. Wondering if anyone else has noticed it.
I had problems as well for some time.
Now it's back at http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

[krosswindz]

It seems to be my ISP issue, wonder how do I get around this issue :confused:. Changing my DNS setting doesnt help.

[GrofLuigi]

It seems to be my ISP issue, wonder how do I get around this issue :confused:. Changing my DNS setting doesnt help.
OpenDNS (www.opendns.com) didn't help?

Google for a "free web proxy".

GL

[LoRd_MuldeR]

It seems to be my ISP issue, wonder how do I get around this issue :confused:. Changing my DNS setting doesnt help.

First of all you should check whether this is DNS problem or an actual connection problem.

In the first case switching your DNS server should be sufficient, in the latter case you'll need to use a proxy.

What happens if you try this from the command prompt:
ping avisynth.org

[krosswindz]

First of all you should check whether this is DNS problem or an actual connection problem.

In the first case switching your DNS server should be sufficient, in the latter case you'll need to use a proxy.

What happens if you try this from the command prompt:
ping avisynth.org

DNS isnt issue as I am able to resolve the IP correctly. I am unable to ping avisynth.org. I will try first contacting my ISP to figure out why I am unable to reach avisynth.org. If that doesnt resolve the issue then I will look towards using a proxy.

[casio7131]

maybe this site might be useful? http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

[codecdictionary]

It is actually facing some problems. But not permanent down.

Avisynth.org server troubles -- temporary page

Database-driven pages are still down. The main avisynth.org wiki and the new MediaWiki are not working at all.

Look here for updates on server status: http://status.leafyhost.com/

These pages should work:
Download Avisynth @ SourceForge
Avisynth Filter Collection
AvsP home page
stickboy's avisynth stuff
TSP's plugins
vcmohan's plugins
MeGUI auto-update

After a couple of seconds it redirects the page to http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

[krosswindz]

maybe this site might be useful? http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

This says its down for me :(

It is actually facing some problems. But not permanent down.

After a couple of seconds it redirects the page to http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

I dont event see the redirect page. I cant access mediawiki either. I am going to call my ISP over the weekend and yell at them.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I think the "redirect page" is how the Avisynth web-site currently looks (and it looks like this for quite some time now). The Wiki is working fine :)

[mel2000]

Has this issue been resolved? My non-connection to avisynth.org mirrors the OP exactly. My ISP is Comcast. I can reach the site thru the hidemyass.com anonymizer but not directly thru Firefox or IE9. This problem has been going on for months now.

[Midzuki]

avisynth.org.ru is (finally) back, after a "long and tenebrous winter"... :confused:
There's something very-wrong out there, apparently :-/

[ramicio]

It's always been down for me every time I visit it, for a year or so now.

[TheFluff]

Has this issue been resolved? My non-connection to avisynth.org mirrors the OP exactly. My ISP is Comcast. I can reach the site thru the hidemyass.com anonymizer but not directly thru Firefox or IE9. This problem has been going on for months now.

I have the same issue with Swedish ISP ComHem; it's been like that for a few months now. At the office (Telia) it works fine, and it also works fine if I use a proxy at home. No idea what's causing it though, it's not DNS related.

[ronnylov]

No problems for me with Swedish ComHem (but I am using google DNS right now).

[stoffal]

I can confirm that it looks still down from here (germany).
Are there any news what caused it and if the provider will fix it?
Chris

[r0lZ]

Almost 1 year later, it is still down for me. Ping seems to work just fine and downforeveryoneorjustme reports that it is up.
Someone knows how to solve this irritating issue? (My ISP is voo.be)

[mpucoder]

It works for me. Possibly blocked by your isp or a dns failure somewhere. Try changing your dns server or adding the following line to hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in Windows XP and later)

173.236.193.255 avisynth.org

Like many sites avisynth uses virtual hosting, so entering the IP address alone will not work.

If you are getting stopped at the "server troubles temporary page" go to http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page instead. The temporary page is supposed to redirect you there.

[r0lZ]

Hum, the modif of the host file doesn't work. Maybe I have to reboot first, but I can't for the moment (a long h264 encoding will still requires 10 hours or so before completing!)

The mediawiki page doesn't work either: The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

I'll try a free DNS tomorrow.

Anyway, thanks for the help!

[IanB]

From what you are saying, I suspect you have ISP filtering/proxy problems, rather than DNS/routing issues.

Try this :- From a CMD prompt do a "tracert avisynth.org"

You should get some output that looks like this :-C:\>tracert avisynth.org

Tracing route to avisynth.org [173.236.193.255]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

<censored>
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 1380 ms 740 ms 568 ms 203.208.192.201
7 514 ms 599 ms 849 ms 203.208.153.46
8 517 ms 599 ms 789 ms 38.104.210.174
9 641 ms 699 ms 629 ms ip-66-33-201-221.dreamhost.com [66.33.201.221]
10 575 ms 629 ms 610 ms apache2-pat.achird.dreamhost.com [173.236.193.255]

Trace complete.
This was a successful trace, it verifys that DNS and routing are working for me because the last line resolved to the correct target, i.e. apache2-pat.achird.dreamhost.com [173.236.193.255], avisynth.org's hosting service.

[IanB]

To further test your connectivity to avisynth.org you can use Wget (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm) with verbose debugging options.

Here is a successful fetch of the main index.html page :-C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>wget -v -d http://avisynth.org/
SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
syswgetrc = C:\Program Files\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.11.4 on Windows-MinGW.

--2012-02-29 09:10:12-- http://avisynth.org/
Resolving avisynth.org... seconds 0.00, 173.236.193.255
Caching avisynth.org => 173.236.193.255
Connecting to avisynth.org|173.236.193.255|:80... seconds 0.00, connected.
Created socket 1860.
Releasing 0x009c5bd0 (new refcount 1).

---request begin---
GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4
Accept: */*
Host: avisynth.org
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
---response begin---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:11:24 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:59:05 GMT
ETag: "6032260-412-47302482ed440"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1042
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

---response end---
200 OK
Registered socket 1860 for persistent reuse.
Length: 1042 (1.0K) [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'

100%[======================================>] 1,042 --.-K/s in 0s

2012-02-29 09:11:29 (10.2 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [1042/1042]
If your ISP is filtering you then the response section may be somewhat perverted if it works at all.

The meta refresh token is the yucky magic that pushes a normal browser into the mediawiki pages.
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>type index.html
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/">
<b>Avisynth.org server troubles -- temporary page</b>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Database-driven pages are still down. The <a href="/">main avisynth.org
wiki</a>
and <a href="/mediawiki">the new MediaWiki</a> are not working a
t all.
<br>
<br>
Look here for updates on server status: <a href="http://status.leafyhost
.com/">http://status.leafyhost.com/</a>
<br>
<br>
......

[r0lZ]

I got this:

C:\Users\rol>tracert avisynth.org

Tracing route to avisynth.org [173.236.193.255]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 326 ms 332 ms 309 ms 10.171.0.1
2 376 ms 239 ms 259 ms 78.129.125.65
3 140 ms 129 ms 167 ms 212.68.211.133
4 452 ms 450 ms 387 ms 195.219.227.5
5 398 ms 354 ms 364 ms 195.219.227.14
6 357 ms 248 ms 200 ms 195.219.228.26
7 197 ms 225 ms 249 ms if-0-3-1-0.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.49]
8 259 ms 319 ms 305 ms 195.219.243.22
9 269 ms 232 ms 341 ms Vlan581.icore1.NTO-NewYork.as6453.net [209.58.26.130]
10 289 ms 387 ms 355 ms pos-1-7-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.87.169]
11 354 ms 332 ms 278 ms pos-1-12-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.87.197]
12 338 ms 273 ms 296 ms pos-4-2-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.87.66]
13 393 ms 445 ms 375 ms pos-1-14-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.153]
14 388 ms 383 ms 338 ms pos-0-10-0-0-cr01.losangeles.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.217]
15 362 ms 324 ms 340 ms as26347.losangeles.ca.ibone.comcast.net [75.149.228.206]
16 532 ms * 515 ms ip-66-33-201-114.dreamhost.com [66.33.201.114]
17 353 ms 373 ms 423 ms rampart-0.hq.newdream.net [66.33.201.2]
18 358 ms 401 ms 446 ms avisynth.org [173.236.193.255]

Trace complete.

I don't have wget on my Win7 ultimate X64 SP1.

Avisinth still responds "The connection was reset".

[IanB]

Okay you do not have a DNS or routing issue. You successfully got to the target 173.236.193.255

To further test your connectivity to avisynth.org you can use Wget (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm) with verbose debugging options.I did include a link (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm) where you could get a copy.

[r0lZ]

Sorry, I was in a hurry yesterday. Furthermore, I had already wget installed, but it was not in the path.
Anyway, I've tried today, with this result:

C:\Users\rol>"C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\wget.exe" -v -d http://avisynth.org/
SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
syswgetrc = C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.11.4 on Windows-MinGW.

--2012-02-29 11:38:48-- http://avisynth.org/
Resolving avisynth.org... seconds 0.00, 173.236.193.255
Caching avisynth.org => 173.236.193.255
Connecting to avisynth.org|173.236.193.255|:80... seconds 0.00, connected.
Created socket 416.
Releasing 0x006c8000 (new refcount 1).

---request begin---
GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4
Accept: */*
Host: avisynth.org
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Closed fd 416
Retrying.

--2012-02-29 11:39:31-- (try: 2) http://avisynth.org/
Found avisynth.org in host_name_addresses_map (006C8000)
Connecting to avisynth.org|173.236.193.255|:80... seconds 0.00, connected.
Created socket 416.
Releasing 0x006c8000 (new refcount 1).

---request begin---
GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.11.4
Accept: */*
Host: avisynth.org
Connection: Keep-Alive

---request end---
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Closed fd 416
Retrying.
[...]

[IanB]

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer)Yep you are being filtered.

Next question is where and by whom.

Check your AntiVirus logs to make sure it is not "protecting" you from visiting this site (false positive). You could also retry the wget with your AV temporarily stopped.

And put your IP address in http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso (http://www.spamhaus.org/lookup.lasso) to see if you are accidentally on their blacklist.

And of course check with your ISP.

[ramicio]

Why can't they just get some real hosting in a country where IP addresses aren't banned by the block? It's not exactly a bandwidth-intense site.

[IanB]

@ramicio,

dreamhost.com is a real hosting company. And r0lZ is not ip block banned, he can trace route to the site and actually got connected but then got hung up on. That can happen from anywhere in the pipe, i.e. Local AV protection, transparent ISP proxy filtering, web host blacklist processing, etc.

AFAIK avisynth.org only filters wiki updates by blacklisting, not read access.

[r0lZ]

Thanks again.
I've tried to restore the initial (and minimal) HOST file (without the entries generated by SpyBot), and to turn off my Avast antivirus, but still no luck. Interestingly, when Avast is off, the problem is different. There are now timeouts when trying to connect.

SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
syswgetrc = C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.11.4 on Windows-MinGW.

--2012-03-01 00:44:23-- http://avisynth.org/
Resolving avisynth.org... seconds 0.00, 173.236.193.255
Caching avisynth.org => 173.236.193.255
Connecting to avisynth.org|173.236.193.255|:80... seconds 0.00, Closed fd 408
failed: Connection timed out.
Releasing 0x00798718 (new refcount 1).
Retrying.
[...]

Traceroute can still find its way to avisynth.org.

Too late to contact my isp today, but will do tomorrow.