What the hell?

[Jason Allen]

I can't get on TNL. The site, the forums, nothing. What could the problem be?
Thanks.

[Joe Redifer]

What is TNL? Seriously. "The Naked Lady"? There are plenty of other porn sites out there, you perv.

[Obviously]

*Zing*

[Melf]

I get in just fine. Maybe it's a browser issue?

[Jason Allen]

I guess so. I Recently got DSL, and ever since then I haven't been able to get on TNL. I I called up customer support and went through all sorts of troubleshooting, and still nothing. Wacky.

[Jason Allen]

Still no luck. Any interweb smarty=pants out there have any advice?

[Joe Redifer]

It might help if I knew what TNL was. I went to www.tnl.com and I couldn't find any forums, so that must not be what you are talking about.

Try searching for it on Google. It will come up. Try getting in with the link from Google. Also try the cached link. Does it just hang with your browser saying "looking up tnl.com..." or whatever. What does our browser say?

[Jason Allen]

http://the-nextlevel.com is the URL. I get a "page cannot be found" message.

[Joe Redifer]

What does http://67.19.121.90 give you?

[Jason Allen]

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/1.3.33 Server at main.the-nextlevel.net Port 80

[Joe Redifer]

Well that is the IP address of the site and I get the same page as you. Now it's time to ask some stupid questions, but I gotta:

1. Have you tried a different browser?

2. Are you using a router (this would not be your cable or DSL modem)?

3. Have you tried resetting the DSL connection (unplugging the modem for a few seconds, plugging it back in, etc)?

4. Have you tried from a different computer at your location?

5. Have you removed Adware recently? If not, download and try AdAware (Google it).

6. Have you had an argument with your computer recently? Maybe you should apologize.

[Jason Allen]

I have done all of the above. A friend of mine said it could be a firewall issue. I don't know what that means.

[Joe Redifer]

Well if you have a software firewall, you'll need to add it to your trusted zones or something like that.

If you have an Internet Security program (such as Norton Internet Security) installed in your system, please try to disable "Browser Privacy".

Example for Norton Internet Security 2003:

1. Open the Norton Internet Security Control Panel

2. Click on "Privacy Control", choose "Configure".

3. If you have "Turn on Privacy Control" checked, click on "Custom Level".

4. In the "Customize Privacy Settings" page, uncheck "Enable Browser Privacy".

5. Click OK and accept the settings.


Example for Zone Alarm:

1. Open the Zone Alarm Control Panel

2. Click on "Firewall", choose the "Zones" tab.

3. Add a new site, set Zone to "Trusted", and enter "http://the-nextlevel.com" as the host name.

[Jason Allen]

Well, I'm completely lost here. If it helps at all, I'm on WinMe.

[Lhadatt]

Steps to your solution:

1) Upgrade to WinXP. Seriously.
2) Search for a file on the PC called "HOSTS". It should be under \windows\system32\drivers\etc, but it may not be there under WinME. Follow the syntax in the file to add TNL's server IP and the domain name (both "the-nextlevel.com" and "www.the-nextlevel.com") in the HOSTS file. Save, try it.

[Jason Allen]

You think Morphix will just buy me a new computer? This one is pretty old and lacks RAM. Oh, this shit didn't start until AFTER I got DSL. THere's a whole list of other post DSL upgrade issues that are going on too, like my PC resets frequently for no reason, blue screen of death more often than ever, etc.

[David J.]

I don't think it's the DSL that's screwing up your computer. When my computer shit the bed a few years back and I used an old PC with WinME while it was getting fixed, it would crash every five seconds.

Then I once heard people say broadband slowed down their computer. I once used broadband on an old P2 266MHz and even slower computers, and everything was fine.

[Jason Allen]

Oddly enough, I did nothing to correct the issue, but decided to just try to log on to TNL tonight, and sure as shit. It worked just fine.

[Joe Redifer]

My guess is that you had too much porn on your computer. When you started to download a bit less porn each day, it started to heal. Once the porn to non-porn ratio was fixed, TNL worked. That is the ONLY logical explanation.