hk@gg

Do you have 1&1 as provider too? Did you tried to delete the hosts-entry for geocaching.com? May be the best solution for you. If it doesn't work, try the hosts-entry as described some posts before and pleaseremember to delete it in a few days/weeks... Hubertus

I can certainly understand your frustration, but unfortunately, this isn't a Groundspeak issue. With the exception of a very small handful of users posting in this thread, this transition was completely seamless and no downtime was experienced. This issue is a direct result of your ISP overriding and breaking the standard functionality of DNS. As I indicated in my previous post, we'll see if there's something we can do on our end to work around this problem. Elias Hi Elias, thank you for your answer. I have understand that the problem is to find at my isp, in this case the german provider 1&1. I don't know, whether the other peoples with this problem also have 1&1 as provider. Therefore i think, it would be better to announce such updates/maintenance or whatoever to avoid such frustration. I couldn't recognize this issue as a provider-problem, because another laptop in my home-network (with Vista) and my pda (windows-mobile) doesn't have any problem to access geocaching.com. But what's about the other users with this problem outside Germany, who have other providers like me? Sorry if you feel affected, it wasn't my intention. Happy caching from Klein-Gerau/Germany Hubertus (hk@gg)

Thank's a lot to the Groundspeak-staff for their accuracy maintaining the servers. Wouldn't it be better to advertise such important server-maintenance? I'm a premium menber and i feel me left out in the rain...

Its not ... the current result for geocaching.com (no www.) gives the following ip-adresses: 66.150.167.131, 66.150.167.132 nslookup for www.geocaching.com sometimes gives another ip-adress as the abovementioned, like: 66.150.167.171 Looks like it's a DNS or load balancing issue. I added a hosts entry of 66.150.167.131 and the site comes up fine now. Thanks all. Anyone else having troubles might also want to check their DNS. This isn't the first time I've had stale DNS info from my ISP. Yes, it works now. Thank you very much for the workaround!

Not only with XP and Firefox, with Internet-Explorer too. tracert works properly. Trying another PC (Vista)in my Home-Network, i have no Problems to connect to geocaching.com, also with my PDA (Windows mobile). I tried to switch of my wireless networkadapter and using a network-cable, same result. Also i tried using mobile Internet-connection... doesn't work too. Strange problem, which i described on geoclub.de-forum at the 'wiese'