Re: Automated Home Login Problems

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

They denied all knowledge/responsibility - despite me proving (to myself)
that it had to be down to their network.

My reasoning was:

If I create a VPN connection to the office (over the BT ADSL Line) - and
route all traffic via the office (office used a demon connection for
outbound) - then the problem disappeared.

If I routed traffic over an anonymous proxy, the problem disappeared.

if the forums that were problematic has an SSL option - this worked - only
HTTP was affected.

I captured traffic, showing "BT Squid - Error" - the IP of the
Squid was in
a range listed as "BT Infrastructure" or something similar - they
said this
was irelevant.

If anyone can suggest any other cause for this, I'd be interested to hear
your thoughts! :)


So, I used a proxy for a while - - and after about a month, went "back
to
normal" - and the problem had been resolved.

Still with BT - tied into contract

Good luck!!

Rob

On 09/11/2007, Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Thanks Rob, I'm with BT... :-/
> Did they ever fix it for you, or did you change ISP?
>
> Thanks, I'll investigate further.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
>
> On 11/8/07, Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxx
<rob.iles%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Tim,
> >
> > Does your (home) ISP implement a transparent proxy? I've had
issues with
> BT
> > in the past, one of the boxes in their transparent HTTP
Cache/Proxy farm
> > went wonky, and caused very bizarre issues with vBulletin (and
some
> other
> > forums).
> >
> > If possible, temporarily specify a Proxy server in IE/Firefox on
a port
> > other than 80 - - - google for IP's - there's are a number that
run on
> > TCP8080 etc.
> >
> > This might help, it did the job for me in the past. It may be
completely
> > irrelevant - so if any has other ideas, please shout out :)
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > On 08/11/2007, Tim Hawes
<timsyahoo@xxxxxxx<timsyahoo%40googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble logging into the Automated Home forums
from home.
> > > All is fine from work though. A-H uses vBulletin, as does AV
Forums,
> > > and I have no trouble at AVF...
> > >
> > > When I try to log in to A-H I get the redirect screen but I
don't
> > > appear to be logged in after that page disappears. It's the
same for
> > > both IE and Firefox, although I'm on IE 7 at home & 6 at
work. I also
> > > can't see the forum sponsor icons in either browser.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what could be wrong? Since it's common to
both IE &
> > > Firefox I think it's maybe pointing to a firewall-type issue
(?)
> > > rather than a browser problem but I'm happy to be proved
wrong. I'm
> > > using Norton Internet Security 2006 as the software
firewall. I've
> > > tried completely disabling this but the problems persist.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts? help!!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tim.
> > > p.s. I notice as the A-H pages finish loading that
kontera.com is
> > > referenced in the bar at the bottom of the screen. Whois
refers to
> > > networksolutions.com or similar. Is this kosher or are my
details
> > > being hived-off somewhere else?
>
>
>


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