TheTVDB.com down

[rbrian]

TheTVDB.com seems to be the only source for TV meta data - but it's been down for two weeks, even though they say it's been up for ten days. www.downornot.com says it's up, but I still can't get to it! Subler times out, Safari times out, Chrome times out. Everyone says it's up so how come I can't get to it? Is there any alternative?

 

[roidy]

thetvdb.com is not down, and has not been down for 2 weeks! I use it almost daily and it works fine.

If it's down for you then I'd contact your ISP and see if it's a problem with them.

 

[rbrian]

Thanks for the confirmation, looks like it is just me then.

My ISP is BT - I could understand them blocking the pirate bay, but that works fine!

Is there anything in my settings that could be causing a problem? Where should I look?

 

[roidy]

Try clearing your browser history and DNS cache, failing that try a different DNS, I use openDNS.

 

[rbrian]

It works! All I had to do was turn my router off and then back on again, and I didn't even have to spend three hours arguing with someone who can't understand me to get that advice.

Strange though, how come just this one site didn't work? Could it have been cached somewhere?

 

[EmmEff]

I find the command dscacheutil -flushcache is sometimes useful for fixing issues like this. Sometimes the DNS cache gets stuffed and sites that work everyday are no longer accessible.

 

[roidy]

Yep flushing the DNS cache can help with a lot of problems like that, but on under OSX the command is different depending on which version you're running:-

OSX 10.4 or lower

lookupd -flushcache

OSX 10.5 or higher

dscacheutil -flushcache

Any version of Windows

ipconfig /flushdns