Guild Wars 2

I often see links to http://gw2skills.net out there, yet I haven’t been able to access the site.

I saw some other posts that led me to believe the site went down over a year ago, however just today I’ve seen new builds posted using http://gw2skills.net as their link.

Can someone give me a clue? Is this site blocked by some ISPs or something?

The site works fine for me.

Totally weird.
Ok, guess it is time to start the traceroute process and see where it breaks down.

Well, I’m pretty sure comcast is blocking this site. sigh

I also have problems with that site, usually I need to refresh the page many times until it works, but it always end working.

So why dont you just use a proxy?

The root website (http://www.gw2skills.net) utilizes code that detects browser language and does a redirect to either the English or German versions of the site, so try one of these instead to get directly to the page:

http://en.gw2skills.net/ – English
http://de.gw2skills.net/ – German

If those work, there’s something in your browser that’s eating the language detection or the redirect (like perhaps an adblocker of some sort).

No, literally if I do a traceroute from my computer it dies immediately outside my home router.

It’s being blocked somewhere. Nothing is set in my router itself to block (and it does jump to the next connection point). Just Comcast isn’t providing any other route. It just halts on right on the next step out on my router.

http://5.9.105.114/

Well, that is the IP address of the site, but it isn’t configured to go anywhere so that was fruitless of me to find…

Maybe your DNS is out of date or something, try google dns servers and see if it works:
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Tracert is not entirely reliable, because it uses Pings on each IP address in the route, and many routers are designed to not respond to pings. The question is, when you do a Tracert, does it do a DNS Lookup correctly and apply the correct IP address? It should be returning 5.9.105.114 as the IP address assigned to gw2skills.net.

If you attempt go to directly to http://5.9.105.114/ do you get a webpage that says “Welcome to nginx!”?

If not, Comcast may indeed be blocking access to that IP; I found that APEWS has the entire Class B IP Range listed in their blacklist http://www.apews.org/ (5.8.X.X and 5.9.X.X) for some reason (which is not listed, but should be). If Comcast is blocking all IP Traffic to that IP range based on the APEWS list, that would be why you can’t reach it.

Alternately, you can try a free Proxy, such as the Cyberghost Proxy: https://cyberghostvpn.com/en_us/proxy – just type in the site name there, and you should be able to access the site with no problems.

Most of the proxy sites don’t work for this page. I don’t know why

Verbindung zu 5.9.105.114 Fehlgeschlagen.
Das System antwortete: (111) Connection refused
dont work with any proxy

I had access to the site until a day ago. Suddenly I can no longer access it. I also have Comcast. I’ll be following this thread in hopes someone more tech. savvy than I will lead me to a solution.

same for me, and the services that check if a site is down for “just me” or for everybody think it’s down as well.

It’s down as of now, not sure why.