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Dot.tk Address Connections

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Does anyone else have a really hard time connecting to .tk addresses? This is not just local, but over my whole network. I've tried using Google DNS servers, but that didn't help either. Once in a while I can connect to them, but most of the time it just attempts to load until it times out.

This doesn't happen with any other addresses that I can think of, but just about every .tk address. I know the servers ain't down too, since I can hop on someone elses server and download a file from the address.

I was just curious if anyone else has had a problem with this, and if they've found a solution. It's starting to become a bit of a pain now that they're being used so often around here.
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Re: Dot.tk Address Connections

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Takes a bit of time to respond, but nothing more than a few seconds. Maybe your ISP is having routing issues?
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delinquent wrote:Takes a bit of time to respond, but nothing more than a few seconds. Maybe your ISP is having routing issues?
It's been like this for quite a long time though, and it's only with them. I assume it's something with my ISP, but not quite sure what. I use their DNS servers, but even switching to Google's was no help. When this problem occurs, I can't even ping the address.

Just the first .tk address I have here .. speedoflightclan.tk I can ping it fine on a friend's VPS, but when I attempt it on a local server, I get no response at all.

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tom@kubuntu:~$ ping speedoflightclan.tk
PING speedoflightclan.tk (31.170.162.246) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- speedoflightclan.tk ping statistics ---
128 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 126999ms
But, maybe my focus is wrong by pointing the finger at .tk. Since it returns the IP, it seems they are doing their job. When I try connecting to that IP directly, it still turns out the same.

In the past, if I've tried enough times I would eventually get it to load, and then it would be fine for a while. Eventually it would do it again, but just switch back 'n forth between working and not.
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A little "yay" for Durf, whether he knows he was helpful or not.
Durf wrote:Subject: Dot.tk Address Connections


How very curious...it seems to be working fine for me.
Though the IP address you pinged is 000webhost without the specific website.
you can try 000webhost.com and see if that is the problem.

Else you can try http://durf.tk/ my tk domain
Or my subdomain directly: http://durf.bugs3.com/
For more testing.

Very weird, I wasn't able to reproduce any of the same errors..
Good luck! Lemme know if I can do anything more to help ;)
So, let's take a quick look ..

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tom@kubuntu:~$ ping durf.tk
PING durf.tk (31.170.163.217) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- durf.tk ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3022ms

tom@kubuntu:~$ ping durf.bugs3.com
PING durf.bugs3.com (31.170.163.217) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- durf.bugs3.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4032ms

tom@kubuntu:~$ ping speedoflightclan.tk
PING speedoflightclan.tk (31.170.162.246) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- speedoflightclan.tk ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2014ms
All of the servers I'm having trouble contacting are on the same host. 000webhost seems to be my problem. I can connect to their site, but it appears to be hosted on a different server, which I would have expected.

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tom@kubuntu:~$ ping 000webhost.com
PING 000webhost.com (212.1.209.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 212.1.209.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=47.7 ms
64 bytes from 212.1.209.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=40.7 ms
64 bytes from 212.1.209.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=46.7 ms
64 bytes from 212.1.209.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=39.2 ms
64 bytes from 212.1.209.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=41.9 ms
^C64 bytes from 212.1.209.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=51 time=41.0 ms

--- 000webhost.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 25468ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 39.261/42.915/47.790/3.189 ms
I've tried clearing DNS cache as some sort of small effort, but I really have no ideas on what may be wrong. So, if anyone else does? :P
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