cabelas.com

today i tryed to get on cabelas.com, but it just brought me to another site. so i thought maybe i typed it wrong, but when i got my fly fishing magazine out of cabelas, and copied it letter for letter it said error.
Can anyone tell me why?
thanks

I just tried it -- it's temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance.

They're up now... 11:58AM EASTERN.

i think its you, JC. i got the site with no problem.

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Everyone dies. Only the lucky ever truly Live. Take your time.

Chris-Bishop, CA, USA

I just pulled it up too. You caching it somewhere JC?

Don

Sometimes you can get a cookie that acts like a virus. When you type the name of the site you want to visit, it re-directs you to a different site. I had this happen when I tried to look something up on Lowe's web page. I was told about this and was told that I had to clear out my cookies out. Worked, but a PITA to have to remember all the passwords to log into the different sites I access.

Hopefully not the case for anyone here, but something to be aware of.

Paul

It works for me.

Jc i live in south west washington state, and got it to go now, its 10:41 am pacific

JC,

Not everyone sees a website through the same route.

When the request is sent out from your computer it goes through a series of routers and nameservers. If one of them along your route is down or has incorrect information you will not get through.

This is a temporary situation and is usually cleared up soon.

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Joe

JC, as long as you have not installed any software from Earthlink on your computer you shouldn't have cache problems.

Many ISP's give out software that is supposed to speed up Internet access. This software uses caching to give the illusion of speed.

While you can tweek you computer to optimal performance settings, no software can increase the speed that the data is being sent to you.

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Joe

sometimes your ISP actually connects you to their cached files. if earthlink is connecting you to files cached in their server, there is nothing you can do until they update their cache. shouldnt take long.

the only way to know this is to connect via a different provider. if it pulls up through a new ISP, contact earthlink, and inform them of their caching problem.

AOL is infamous for this. it allows them to "connect" more people at a time, and to do it faster. it also lowers their bandwidth transfer. it happens alot with larger providers such as AOL, earthlink, people PC, netzero, etc.

hope this helps...

by the way, software on your computer is not necessary for this to happen. no matter the software or browser you use, you have no control over where the provider actually connects you to.

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Everyone dies. Only the lucky ever truly Live. Take your time.

Chris-Bishop, CA, USA

[This message has been edited by tyflier (edited 15 July 2005).]

Hey, JC. Open a Command promt and type:

tracert [url=http://www.cabelas.com:cdbbb]www.cabelas.com[/url:cdbbb]

When I do that it dies after a couple of hops and I am just accross the state, so I don't know. I can still get to the website however.

Maybe they are just blocking you since you have had threads full of complainers about them on your site. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/wink.gif

Don

JC, Earthlink does not totaly cache busy sites like cabelas. Even aol, the worst at this, does not cache busy sites for very long.

The problem you are having might be caused by Cabelas changing their IP address. and the route your access is taking has not updated.

Try typing this IP address into your browser and see if you get Cabelas:
216.251.246.203

tyflier, the software supplied by some ISP's for speeding Internet access establishes an additional cache on your computer. Has nothing to do with server cache.



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Joe

I'm on Earthlink. Couldn't get to Cabelas last night, but fine now.

If it's a nameserver in your route then the name can't resolve to be redirected.

I had a similar problem with one of my sites a few years back. Some people in Washington couldn't get the site. It turned out to be a problem nameserver in Seattle.

I did a trace and my route arrives at their host, Navisite, Inc in Andover, MA. From there the trace is blocked by their firewall but my browser resolves to the site.

I'm sure the problem will be fixed soon, in the meantime if anyone needs to get to Cabelas they can use this link:
[url=http://216.251.246.203:330ba]http://216.251.246.203[/url:330ba]

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Joe

Just came up for me but there have been a bunch of sites that seem to have been haywire for the past 24 hours or so. None of the weather sites have been updated here since last night, and I had to log on a cauple of times to get to ANYTHING last night and just now. I expect, somewhere on the west coast, is a major node that is down for some reason or another.

Dennis

Hey all,
no probs here and I placed a small order in the midst of this thread...while not even knowing anything of this.....

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"I've often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before" A.K.Best

"Wish ya great fishing"

Bill