Trying to get my computer back...

[Jon Lawton]

Originally posted by evulish
well...usfirst.org isn't in any DNS records (available to outsiders.) So you need to ping www.usfirst.org or newton.usfirst.org.

For some reason, there is still no ping response (even though their servers are obviously...) Not sure why pings would be blocked...Possibly to limit DOS attacks.

Blocking ICMP packets (ping) is actually a pretty common practice. If you are using DSL, and if you are cursed with PPPoE (Point-To-Point Protocol over Ethernet) make sure your MTU is set to a sane value... 1490 ought to do it.

[Ashley Weed]

Thanks everyone for all of your help. After trying everything, I was able to give information to my ISP on what I could do and what my PC wouldn't do. They were then able to create a patch for my computer. Come to find out it was a conflict within my IP address and my new OS (XP). I don't know to much more about it , but it works now, and I can get into usfirst.org again! Thanks again for all of your help!