Unable to access stackexchange sites from this system
- by Sandeepan Nath
Earlier, I was not able to access most of the stackexchange sites like stackoverflow, programmers.SE etc. on my home Windows XP system. I was able to access only a few like http://meta.stackexchange.com and not even http://www.meta.stackexchange.com (note the www). I tried many other sites like http://www.stackoverflow.com, http://area51.stackexchange.com/ but was getting page not found errors on all browsers. Even pinging from terminal was saying destination host unreachable. I did not check recently but may be all SE sites are unreachable now.
I was clueless about what could be the issue. I thought some firewall issue? So, I stopped AVG antivirus's firewall, then completely uninstalled it and even turned of windows firewall.
But still not reachable even after fresh installation of Windows 7.
Then I noticed a "Too many requests" notice on google. This page -
http://www.google.co.in/sorry/?continue=http://www.google.co.in/#
I don't know why this appeared but I guess somehow too many requests might have been sent to these sites and they blocked me. But in that case, SE would be smart enough to show a captcha like google.
So, how to confirm the problem and fix it. Similar questions like these don't look solved yet -
Unable to access certain websites
Unable to Access Certain Websites
I have lately started actively participating in lots of SE sites. There are new new questions popping up in my mind every time and I am not able to ask them. Please help!
Thanks
