Connection keeps getting reset when connecting to Torrentz.com

Hi everyone. I'm a Comcast HSI subscriber, and I'm unable to browse to torrentz.com. When I try to browse to it, it will sit there for about 2 minutes, then Firefox will eventually say that the connection has been reset, most likely because it was taking so long. I'm on OpenDNS as my DNS provider, but AFAIK, that shouldn't be affecting things. Here's my Trace route: (I've cut out some stuff for privacy)

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Tracing route to torrentz.com [209.44.114.225]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  ******* [192.168.1.1]

  2    *        *        *    Request timed out.

  3  163 ms  186 ms  206 ms  [REMOVED]

  4  242 ms  466 ms  271 ms  [REMOVED]

  5  107 ms    99 ms    81 ms  pos-2-8-0-0-cr01.mclean.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.105]

  6  353 ms  127 ms    40 ms  xe-11-2-0.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.79.231.13]

  7    86 ms    90 ms  150 ms  vlan79.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.17.126]

  8  103 ms    79 ms  235 ms  ae-72-72.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.149]

  9  321 ms  406 ms  244 ms  ae-3-3.ebr1.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.132.90]

 10  146 ms  146 ms  262 ms  ae-1-100.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.135.254]

 11  227 ms  263 ms  287 ms  ae-6-6.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.141.21]

 12  404 ms  150 ms    93 ms  ae-5-5.car1.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.141.5]

 13  205 ms  206 ms  193 ms  NHS.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.59.178.2]

 14  225 ms  216 ms  219 ms  209.44.125.17

 15  181 ms  187 ms  227 ms  64.15.64.63

 16  253 ms  231 ms  238 ms  209.44.114.225



Trace complete.

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P.S. If anyone knows why that second hop always times out for me, help there would be great, too.

I'm on OpenDNS here as well, and I can access the site without any problems. If you use a software firewall, make sure it's not blocking Torrentz for some reason. Same goes for your router, if applicable.

As for why there's a constant timeout on the second hop, I don't know. For me, that's always my ISP's gateway (same IP as me, but with a 1 as the final octet).

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

I'm on OpenDNS here as well, and I can access the site without any problems. If you use a software firewall, make sure it's not blocking Torrentz for some reason. Same goes for your router, if applicable.

As for why there's a constant timeout on the second hop, I don't know. For me, that's always my ISP's gateway (same IP as me, but with a 1 as the final octet).

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My router has never done that before, and although I know it's stupid, I'm not running any software firewalls on my PC :P I guess I think I'm safe enough.

I've never really understood that ISP gateway thing. Sometimes I remember seeing this Gateway adapter show up on my PC's network connections window, but other than that, odd. I tried doing a WHOIS on the last IP, and the only thing I got back was that it belonged to some sort of range, other than that, no information. Very strange.

So does anyone else know why I can't connect to torrentz.com?

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Originally Posted by GCI

I know it's stupid, I'm not running any software firewalls on my PC :P

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It's not as stupid as you'd think. The router should protect you from most incoming attacks if you only forward the ports you need, and if you're careful with what you run...

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I've never really understood that ISP gateway thing.

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If you feel like reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_gateway

As for your issue, can't you check if a friend or neighbor using Comcast also has problems to access Torrentz? This should give you as clue as to whether the issue is on your side or your provider's.

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

It's not as stupid as you'd think. The router should protect you from most incoming attacks if you only forward the ports you need, and if you're careful with what you run...

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I've never really understood that ISP gateway thing.

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If you feel like reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_gateway

As for your issue, can't you check if a friend or neighbor using Comcast also has problems to access Torrentz? This should give you as clue as to whether the issue is on your side or your provider's.

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I actually just learned the reason for the timeout on the second hop, it's because our modem most likely blocks ICMP requests. I asked a friend/neighbor who also uses Comcast to try it, and they reported that it works fine for them. So I guess either Comcast is blocking it for my account (possible?) or it's the router. The router, by the way, is a Linksys WRT54G v4 router, and I just upgraded the firmware to DD-WRT v24 Std 13064. Still same problem.

P.S. Does this site have post moderation on? I think all of these spam bot restrictions are a little too much. A simple RE-Captcha registration is all you need.

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Originally Posted by GCI

P.S. Does this site have post moderation on?

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Posts meeting certain requirements are automatically moderated.

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

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Originally Posted by GCI

P.S. Does this site have post moderation on?

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Posts meeting certain requirements are automatically moderated.

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Ahh, there it is. So what do you think?

Sorry, missed your other post!

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Originally Posted by GCI

either Comcast is blocking it for my account (possible?) or it's the router.

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Both are possible. If you're able to temporarily remove the router and get a direct connection, do so and try again. You'd discard one of them.

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

Sorry, missed your other post!

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Originally Posted by GCI

either Comcast is blocking it for my account (possible?) or it's the router.

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Both are possible. If you're able to temporarily remove the router and get a direct connection, do so and try again. You'd discard one of them.

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Dang it, it's the router. Other than a little hitch with grabbing an IP from the modem, my PC was able to painlessly browse to torrentz.com. So what in DD-WRT could possibly be blocking torrentz.com?

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Originally Posted by GCI

So what in DD-WRT could possibly be blocking torrentz.com?

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Never had one, so I couldn't tell. But you could search for info, this looks like a good place to start:
www.dd-wrt.com/wiki

If you're feeling adventurous, you could even reset all its settings and change them one by one to see what causes the problem.

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

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Originally Posted by GCI

So what in DD-WRT could possibly be blocking torrentz.com?

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Never had one, so I couldn't tell. But you could search for info, this looks like a good place to start:
www.dd-wrt.com/wiki

If you're feeling adventurous, you could even reset all its settings and change them one by one to see what causes the problem.

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Alright, thank you very much, for your time and patience. I'll be heading right over to their forums :)

Cool, hope you get it solved, and if so make sure you get back to us :)

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

Cool, hope you get it solved, and if so make sure you get back to us :)

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Alright, will do.

Well, I've gotten an update. Now I can partially connect, although it gives me an HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permenantly, then it tried to redirect me to http://209.44.114.225:6666/banned. Is it actually possible that I could be banned from torrentz.com? If so, how can I get unbanned?

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Originally Posted by GCI

If so, how can I get unbanned?

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Clear your cookies and change your IP. That should suffice unless they've banned your whole range.

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Originally Posted by anon-sbi

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Originally Posted by GCI

If so, how can I get unbanned?

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Clear your cookies and change your IP. That should suffice unless they've banned your whole range.

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Ok, will do. In the mean time though, that still doesn't make sense. I mean, I could access torrentz.com if I bypassed my DD-WRT router.

Well, still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas?

So, anyone else have any ideas?

So, anyone have any ideas at all? Or is there an official torrentz.com forum I should know about?

Torrentz.com has no forum that I know of. But you could contact them via e-mail as a last resort, I guess:

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torrentz - at - hush - dot - com

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Heh, never over the years of trying to contact them on that email, have I ever gotten a reply :P I think it's just some sort of trick to make us think that they care ;)