Classic British Flight Sim

What youve got is a DNS problem. Your unable to resolve turksim.org or perhaps you ISP has blocked it (the later is unlikely). The IP address for the server is 204.14.108.250. If you pring up a command prompt (Tyme "cnd" in the run bar and press enter. Then in the pox type "ping flynet.turksim.org" and let us know what response you get.

If that doesn't work you could try typing "ping 204.14.108.250" Again, let us know what responses you get.

Thanks Ben I get the reply "ping request could not find flynet.turksim.org. Please check the name and try again ???

Any thoughts?

Cheers.

Hi Scott,

Try this link http://flynet.turksim.org/ which is the main site without a cookie/log-in just in case your favourite is different. Your FlyNET account looks like it was deleted early May due to inactivity on FlYNET. You might try deleting any 'turksim' cookies or temporary internet file.

Regards

John

Hi John

Thanks, tried that to no avail, yes I was aware my account would have been deleted as I wanted to sign up again (real world interruptions!!!). Can't think what is going on here???

Any other ideas gratefully recieved, thanks all.

Hi.

Do you get a reply if you ping the IP address? If so, you have a dns issue. If not let me know. ;-)

Hi Ben

Yes I do, too much to copy down but it talks about response time in milliseconds and % loss etc, but there is a definate reply.

You should get something like what I have below when you ping the IP address...
This indicates that the network can conect from your system to the server rubbing flynet without problems on a purely tcp/ip level.

However, the internet uses DNS which resolves names to IP addresses. Simply put this means you can type in "www.cbfsim.org" rather than our IP address. The way this works is that you type in the name. You computer sends the name to the DNS servers it is configured with, and the DNS servers tell your computer the IP address and of it goes.

Could you go to a command prompt and type in "IPCONFIG /ALL" then press enter and post here the result?
If I can workout what your DNS servers are I can run a query against them from here to see if they are functioning properly, or if its a problem with your PC.

Cheers

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
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C:\Users\Scott>IPCONFIG/ALL

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : fordfamily-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-19-DB-53-9A-AB
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 03 June 2008 09:22:42
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 04 June 2008 09:22:42
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

C:\Users\Scott>

Hi Ben hope that help, thanks..................

Don't know if this is in any way connected to the FlyNet issue but just in case.

From Avsim:

"VATSIM Suffers Outage, Now Partially Restored

Posted: Monday, June 2, 2008 - 18:38
From the VATSIM News Wire: "VATSIM suffered a major server outage this weekend and is still in the process of recovering services. Currently, the FSD network (the one you connect to fly and control) is fully functional. The data feeds for ServInfo, DLMN, vRoute, and VATSpy are operating again. Weather server has been recovered and weather is updating. We are still waiting for the SweatBox server to come back online. Unfortunately, the VATSIM forums are still down. The data server remained online during the incident and no stats data was lost."

Per theplanet.com, the Hosting provider for VATSIM, this outage was caused by a large-explosion in their Houston, TX Network Operations Center. (NOC) Those wishing to learn the whole scoop can visit theplanet.com update page for up to date information."

Hi Nigel,

We're talking FlyNET here :think:

Regards

John