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[Beelzebub]

After the recent moving of servers etc I'm, unable to access Blat on the old URL of http://www.blatchat.com/ & have been using http://213-04.com/. Is it finger trouble at my end or is the old address unavailable 🤔

 

Many thanks for all your efforts in keeping Blat alive & well. Regards Dave.

[Site Manager]

Hi Dave,

 

Assuming you're running some flavour of Windows, go to Start > Run, type cmd and then press enter; you will be presented with a command prompt or dos box. Type:

 

ping www.blatchat.com

 

you should get a message that says:

 

pinging www.blatchat.com [81.27.96.nnn]

 

if the nnn = 148 then there is a problem with the dns entry that your computer is seeing. First thing to do is find the hosts file:

 

Windows 95/98/Me c:windowshosts

 

Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:winntsystem32driversetchosts

 

Windows XP Home c:windowssystem32driversetchosts

 

Edit the file and look for anything that looks like it points to www.blatchat.com, if you find something, delete the whole line.

 

If you don't find anything then it sounds like the old dns entry has been cached, the options you have now are to ask you isp/IT people to refresh dns or add the following line to your hosts file:

81.27.96.69 www.blatchat.com

 

save it, and try www.blatchat.com once more

 

If this doesn't work, I'm stumped, and hopefully someone else may have some ideas.

[Beelzebub]

Well done that man I'm Blatting again on the previous URL. How good 🤔 🤔 🤔

 

Many thanks for the umpteenth time.

 

Kind regards Dave Gallacher.