Problems in accessing avinashtech forum and blog by some members, port 80 problem

[Avinash]

One of the members informed me about problems he faced while trying to access avinashtech forum and blog with the error message telling connection refused at port 80. I just checked it out on server end and everything seems OK.

If someone is still having some problem, please provide some details. Here's what I got as reply from my webhost.

There are no issues with the domain avinashtech.com. It is resolving properly. The issue might be due to the firewall. If your customers are still having problems while accessing the domain, let us know their local IPs so that we can check the firewall for any blocks. Also ask them to provide a traceroute to the server while the issue is there so that we can check for any external network problems. You can take the trace-route result as follows:

In Windows, select Start > Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
Enter the word tracert, followed by a space, then the domain name.
eg. tracert avinashtech.com

In Linux, take a shell and type
traceroute avinashtech.com

In Mac,
Open Finder, Applications, Utilities.
Launch the Terminal Application.
Type 'traceroute avinashtech.com' and press enter.

[Ashwin]

Try the following to resolve port problems:

1. The port 80 is not allowing connections. check it here

http://www.canyouseeme.org/

2. Click on Start > Run, type "firewall.cpl",(without the quotes) and hit Enter. Go to the Exceptions tab, click Add Port, and enter the following information:
Name: Give any name you want
Port Number: 80
Type: TCP

3. Routers block ports too, visit

http://portforward.com/

to see if it helps and also read this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308127

[Grr]

Thanks for this info guys. I'm lucky to have things working fine for me.

[hakah]

Thanks for the information!