Neopets down for all Aussies - sorted out, please lock.

[mercurius]

if you use adblock in firefox make sure you didn't accidently block neopets. I accidently blocked gmail once trying to get rid of the text ads. I couldn't access it for days and finally I figured out why!

[ahron]

You see where it says type the URL in to translate? I typed in neopets.com and yea. I only did it to see if it was my problem or Neopets problem and it seems to be theirs. So don't log in or anything.

By any chance are you with Optus?

[Daze]

Just to let everyone know - it was nothing that I had done.

For what ever reason, I can know access Neopets. It is 12.00pm Sunday.

I couldn't access Neo for all of Saturday.

[Shoyru_Lover]

Seems fine for me.

[Daze]

Seems fine for me.

Yes, I have already said it is working now.

[shapu]

For future reference, the next time Neopets fails, it could be one of several things that are unrelated to your browser.

1) It could be that Neopets had attempted to block certain game types - gambling games, hint hint - for your region and engaged in overkill. Change your country to something less restrictive, such as the United States, the Czech Republic, or Antarctica (I think that's where I am, according to Neopets records).

2) Some script kiddie might be attempting some sort of attack on Neopets servers, or perhaps a particularly persistent scammer is operating on the same ISP as you are. In that case, Neopets might have an automated system to temporarily block all access attempts from your ISP (which would explain why some Aussies can access it and others can't).

3) Your own ISP might be reacting to some sort of attack originating on its network towards Neopets, and just blocking all Neopets access until it localizes the problem.

[Daze]

For future reference, the next time Neopets fails, it could be one of several things that are unrelated to your browser.

1) It could be that Neopets had attempted to block certain game types - gambling games, hint hint - for your region and engaged in overkill. Change your country to something less restrictive, such as the United States, the Czech Republic, or Antarctica (I think that's where I am, according to Neopets records).

2) Some script kiddie might be attempting some sort of attack on Neopets servers, or perhaps a particularly persistent scammer is operating on the same ISP as you are. In that case, Neopets might have an automated system to temporarily block all access attempts from your ISP (which would explain why some Aussies can access it and others can't).

3) Your own ISP might be reacting to some sort of attack originating on its network towards Neopets, and just blocking all Neopets access until it localizes the problem.

I thankyou for your reply, but the information doesn't really help work out what the problem was.

After I ran every conceivable test to prove it wasn't my computer, it was obviously a 3rd party problem. As anything outside my computer is out of my control, all I could do was wait for it to clear up.

If I still had problems 24 hrs later, I could have contacted my internet provider to see if it was something their end.