For some reason I can't log onto my ISP's FTP server; having done so in the past, I now keep getting a 'connect failure' notice. However with the same user ID and password settings I can log on to other FTP sites no problem but not my ISP's. I've spent an entire afternoon trying to figure this out, including numerous and expensive calls to India (where my ISP has outsourced its call centre to).
I was wondering if the 127.0.0.1 host loop-back trick might be the problem, my ISP is www.tiscali.co.uk as I have a few 'tiscali' entries in my host file simillar to the ones below:
127.0.0.1 adsweb.tiscali.cz
127.0.0.1 adsweb.tiscali.de
127.0.0.1 adsweb.tiscali.it
127.0.0.1 js.tiscali.fr
127.0.0.1 tiscali.weborama.fr
127.0.0.1 tiscaliplus.weborama.fr
127.0.0.1 ad.tiscali.com
127.0.0.1 ad.tiscali.com
As you can see, none of them match 'www.tiscali.co.uk' Do they need to identical for the host to block them, or is having tiscali in the name sufficient to cause the host to block?
I was wondering if the 127.0.0.1 host loop-back trick might be the problem, my ISP is www.tiscali.co.uk as I have a few 'tiscali' entries in my host file simillar to the ones below:
127.0.0.1 adsweb.tiscali.cz
127.0.0.1 adsweb.tiscali.de
127.0.0.1 adsweb.tiscali.it
127.0.0.1 js.tiscali.fr
127.0.0.1 tiscali.weborama.fr
127.0.0.1 tiscaliplus.weborama.fr
127.0.0.1 ad.tiscali.com
127.0.0.1 ad.tiscali.com
As you can see, none of them match 'www.tiscali.co.uk' Do they need to identical for the host to block them, or is having tiscali in the name sufficient to cause the host to block?