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Airport Extreme preventing me from getting to a website

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Kadath

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May 28, 2006
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I am having an infuriating issue with my Airport Extreme, since updating the firmware it will not let me get to the web site for my gaming group,
The Valiant Crusaders

The site is perfectly accessible nationwide and if I remove my AeBS and have my machines directly connect to my cable modem, they can get to that site just fine. It's as if my base station has decided to cut off that website and nothing I do will get around that. I even went and did a hard reset on the base station and renamed it etc but it still will not let me get to this site. I can get to every other site I care about with no issues.

As far as I know the firewall in the hardware shouldnt be able to be set to do that, any ideas?

Sam
 
Sounds like a DNS problem.
Go to System Prefs > network > Show Airport (or Built-in ethernet), and add at least one DNS server.
One often listed here is OpenDNS - 208.67.220.220
But you could also look up your ISP's DNS servers (google ISP's name +DNS) and enter one of them.
 
NO F'IN WAY.

Okay - did this just start for you??

My Airport Extreme just freaked out on me last night. If I connect directly to my cable modem everything works fine. With the AEBS in place, I can not get to MANY websites like yahoo or facebook.

I've put my Airport Express in place and it works fine.
I've also reset the AEBS to defaults and started fresh, same problem.
 
Yes. it just started this week.

Adding an additional DNS server did not fix it. It resolves a host from the default DNS server.
 
Mine appears to have been a bad power supply. I bought a new AEBS this morning and tried the power supply from it and the old unit worked.

However, I've already bought the new one, and I don't trust the old one.

So you may want to try a new power supply first.
 
Why would a faulty power supply not allow you to get to one website and yet allow others?
 
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