Can Anyone Get The Imdb Website To Work?

[DamianMavis]

Dont know why but the last week I have not been able to access the Internet movie data base. Can anyone else?

http://www.imdb.com/

Damian

[Tywais]

No problem accessing it from Chiangmai.

[bino]

I did notice earlier in the week that imdb.com was extremely slow... taking minutes to load a page, but seems to be working OK now for me in BKK on True ADSL.

[Guest Reimar]

no problems from BKK on TRUE

[jdinasia]

opens fine for me in bkk/true

will check in Phuket later

[lomatopo]

Try

us.dd.imdb.com

or

72.21.211.32

invariably these "why can't I get to such and such website" posts, and there are hundreds, involve DNS issues at the serving ISP.

Firefox users can add a plug-in for IMDB, I use that quite often.

[A_Traveller]

Try us.dd.imdb.com or 72.21.211.32

invariably these "why can't I get to such and such website" posts, and there are hundreds, involve DNS issues at the serving ISP.

Firefox users can add a plug-in for IMDB, I use that quite often.

Sorry but that is not correct.

The issues are as you say within the ISP but are not DNS related. The DNS resolution occurs, either using the ISP's DNS or an external [OpenDNS for example] but the http based 'rendering' process is what is increasingly at fault, especially with True.

For example, DNS does not play any role in determining routes taken to the server once the IP address is correctly resolved from the domain name.

Regards

PS Tried both the variants herein and got the same response, that is quick resolution of address, page header data {as shown in tab} and then the long silence leading either to failure {time out or blank page} or the page sans styling.

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Edited June 15, 2007 by A_Traveller

[opalhort]

OK for me on TRUE ADSL BKK. pops up on the spot - no delay.

opalhort

[A_Traveller]

OK for me on TRUE ADSL BKK. pops up on the spot - no delay.

opalhort

Assuming I've read your address right, across the way from you in Silom it doesn't.

Regards

True ADSL BKK [silom/Sathorn]

[meadish_sweetball]

I cannot access www.imdb.com but http://72.21.211.32/ works fine. TT&T Chiang Mai.

[DamianMavis]

Still can't get it to work.

jdinasia! What a great guy! You dont have to fly down to Phuket to check for me but thanks! heh

I tired us.dd.imdb.com and I immediately got a message by firefox saying that it cant get the server... I mean immediately, it didnt even try to load, is something wrong with my firefox?

Damian

[lomatopo]

What version of Firefox are you using? If 2.0.0.4 then de-install Java and re-install it. 2.0.0.4 seems to suck vs. 1.5.n

Maybe try IE?

Or download the IMDB plug-in?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1348

No problems for me using www.imdb.com, the other addresses I provided or the plug -in (TOT/CSLoxInfo/Bangkok).

[DamianMavis]

Im using firefox 2.0.0.4. The addon for imdb doesnt work on that version. I tried IE, didnt work... I tried reinstalling java... didnt work. Geeze, wish I could figure this out.

Damian

[lomatopo]

I use the IMDB search engine add-on with Firefox 2.0.0.4

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4

Are there other websites you experience problems accessing, or just IMDB?

Maybe use http://search.hollywood.com/

[DamianMavis]

Alright, finally got the imdb search engine added to firefox from that page, but no it still wont go to the page heh. Hollywood page isn't what I need, when I did a serach there was no info on ME! Heh, or any other low level actors for that matter.

Damian

[opalhort]

OK for me on TRUE ADSL BKK. pops up on the spot - no delay.

opalhort

Assuming I've read your address right, across the way from you in Silom it doesn't.

Regards

True ADSL BKK [silom/Sathorn]

I guess you got our address wrong. Our Prachauthit Rd. is in Tungkruh, about 15Km south-west of Silom.

and Imdb still works for me.

opalhort

[LivinLOS]

imdb slow to not working on TOT in Phuket..

Thats both with the name and IP..

[DamianMavis]

Update! We changed isp's and now I can get IMDB again... but they blocked all my torrents so now I'm really unhappy. But why would changing isps bring back IMDB? Because it was too slow before with people downloading torrents?

Damian