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Bumping to demonstrate that GHPC is alive and well

someone has just hijacked the DNS...

to get round this you need to navigate to

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

open in notepad

add

208.67.212.131 forum.globalhousepricecrash.com

the save...

you should then be able to get to the site.

Dear GHPC'ers and sustainablers, please excuse the wordiness- the following only takes abour 1 minute- just wanted to keep it simple (attribution to Sean- I just added a bit- nothing tekkie- just things that might help).

If using Vista (and maybe XP too- dunno):

(keep this at a minimised but viewable level when doing the following or the “start” will disappear):

1) Go to “Start” -> All Programs -> Accessories
2) Right click "Notepad" and select "Run as administrator"
3) Click "Continue" on the UAC prompt (windows needs your permission...” etc)
4) Click File -> Open (leave this open now and do the following)
5) Go to the “Start” thing again. In “search” paste in the following: "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts” (without the quote marks)
6) A little box called “hosts” will show up. Click on it. An “open with” will come up. Click on notepad. An empty box will come up- or if it has writing in it, wipe it all and type in the following:
208.67.212.131 forum.globalhousepricecrash.com
The above should be the only thing in the box.
7) Then go to “file” at the top and clock on “save” or “save as” and get rid of the “Text documents” default and make it "All Files (*.*)" Save it.
Restart your computer. When it comes back on, go to: forum.globalhousepricecrash.com from your browser. Ta da!

i'm back - sort of.

i followed all the instructions to change hosts file. rebooted several times, cleared history. tried firefox, ie and safari but still get the site not available, does not exist message

i've managed to get in through http://cust11047.ipsdns.com/index.php?showtopic=56955 i can then sign in and navigate about.

perhaps i'm running through a proxy? how can i tell? when i go to tools>options>advanced>network>settings (in firefox) it says i'm not going through a proxy. would it have anything to do with settings on the wireless router?

any help appreciated. thanks

I'm having similar problems at work. Using your work around, this is how I navigate ... albeit very slowly:

to open a link, I have to:

1. Copy the shortcut to notepad,

2. Replace everything up to the '?' in the URL with 'http://cust11047.ipsdns.com/index.php'. S0 for example:
http://forum.globalhousepricecrash.com/ ... 0&start=50
becomes http://cust11047.ipsdns.com/index.php?s ... 0&start=50

3. Paste the new URL into the browser's address bar.

The main forum link is effectively http://cust11047.ipsdns.com/index.php?s ... howforum=9

7) Then go to “file” at the top and clock on “save” or “save as” and get rid of the “Text documents” default and make it "All Files (*.*)" Save it.

wulfgar wrote:help!