Is True Blocking Parts Of Thaivisa?

[GreenSnapper]

All pics/gifs etc disappear from the Thaivisa Forums since I have TrueInternet.

For example: http://static.thaivisa.com/forum/style_ima...877/newpost.gif

gets

The page cannot found/Error 404

For assistance, contact your network support team.

I also cannot browse to Blogspot, same error message.

Other sites show ok so far.

[Pib]

I don't have True but the kind of problem you describe is usually caused by firewall settings or the security setting on your browser.

[george]

You are probably using OpenDNS or similar, and True doesn't like that. Change back to True DNS settings and you should be fine.

[welo]

You are probably using OpenDNS or similar, and True doesn't like that. Change back to True DNS settings and you should be fine.

Really, true doesn't allow me to use the DNS of my choice?

How exactly are the restrictions implemented? It is obviously no simple IP based block, otherwise the DNS service would not work at all?

welo

[welo]

Did you check whether it's a cache problem? You could copy the URL to your browser's address bar and hit CTRL-F5. This will re-fetch the image from the server. A 404 is rather unusual for a cache problem though.

Open the command line (Start Menu / Run / 'cmd') and type

 nslookup static.thaivisa.com

It should look somehow like this, the second paragraph being the important one.

 C:\Users\welo>nslookup static.thaivisa.com
 Server:  dsldevice.lan
 Address:  192.168.1.254

 Non-authoritative answer:
 Name:	static.thaivisa.com
 Address:  202.170.126.89

It might also be some browser setting or browser plugin (security, ad blocker,..) or a personal firewall (other than windows firewall) on your PC that disallows loading images from other domains than the website's original domain. I guess even a subdomain is considered a different domain.

I thought Firefox had a feature like that but looking at my Firefox 3.5.5 installation I cannot find it anymore.

welo

welo

Edited December 30, 2009 by welo

[shriah]

Its a known problem with True, OpenDNS and Thaivisa.com . You can't do much about it except to change your DNS servers if you want to use a functional thaivisa.com . To my knowledge Thaivisa.com and Sfcinemacity.co.th are the only site that doesn't work with OpenDNS in True.

[filingaccount]

using the True proxy allows thaivisa to load 100% with any DNS.

proxy.trueinternet.co.th port 8080

sfcinemacity.co.th works fine without proxy.