Bizarreness

[graculus]

So, yesterday I couldn't get into livejournal at all, not on any browser, though I was reliably assured (waves to cycnus39) that it was working. I even uninstalled various things that I thought might be interfering with it, since the problem had started soon after I got an update on something but still no joy.

Then I had a brief email exchange with my ISP's 'help' people:

Me: Everything else is loading but not livejournal, in any browser, are you guys blocking it?

Them: No, it's your browser, here's how to tinker with it. If that doesn't work, talk to livejournal.

Me: No, I told you it's not my browser, but I tried your idiotic suggestions anyway and guess what, they didn't work. Livejournal is working, the problem is with you.

Them: ....

And this morning it's working. Except for danielpix, which I can post to but which won't load in Opera but it will in other browsers. And apparently my friends pages will load but I can't read comments on any posts in that browser either. Grrrrrr.

Comments

[cedara]

Have you tried traceroute to see where it gets cut off?

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Last night I was pinging livejournal and it just kept timing out...

[cedara]

*nods*

What I meant is that you could save the results of the traceroute and give them to your IP to show them. They'd have to let their brains work eventually if it shows that it's their fault. Or something.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I think they just have a bunch of standard replies, depending on what magic word appears in there - 'website not loading' = browser problem. ;)

[cedara]

Heh. Yeah, sounds like it. *g*

[dinahmt.livejournal.com]

Have you tried emptying the cache? I found doing that occasionally solves otherwise unexplainable problems.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that. ;)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

You probably don't want to hear this but ... the above Comm works perfectly for me and I too use Opera. And I can read comments on your friends' page.

Hopefully you can too by now.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes, it all seems to be working now (till next time)!

[temaris.livejournal.com]

If it's any comfort, there's been a fwe people with inexplicable inability to access lj the last couple of days. I couldn't access anything on Wednesday night; Beren couldn't get in all yesterday morning, adn when she did, someeone commented on her LJ that they'd had a similar problem. It's probably neither you nor your isp, but LJ having random attacks of weirdness.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

But it was much more fun to send snotty (and still unresponded to) emails to BT! :P