Reasons why you may be having access problems

This site's primary references for web access and e-mail are via my top level domain, gregorie.org and this is what should be in your e-mail address book and saved in your web browser's bookmark list. This will ensure that you can find me and my web site no matter who my ISP is in future or which country I'm living in. You can always contact me via the details on this website to discuss problems with it.

Contact details for Martin Gregorie

My website is hosted separately from my domain name: gregorie.org is independent of any ISP and of where I'm living. The principal consequence of this arrangement are that the web site may announce itself as www.gregorie.c3487738.myzen.co.uk instead of www.gregorie.org

The rest of this page describes the known problems that this has caused people and how to overcome them:

AOL users can access my web site as www.gregorie.org if it is typed into the URL box on screen but not if the URL is saved as a bookmark.

I don't use bookmarks because each web browser stores them in a proprietary format on its local hard disk. On top of that they can't be easily backed up or shared because of the odd places that different browsers hide them. Finally, my home LAN consists of two Linux systems and a dual boot Linux/Windows PC which all need to access the same set of bookmarks. Instead of using bookmarks, one of my Linux systems runs a web server which provides a common home page and reference information for every browser on my network. Its home page links to my public web site as www.gregorie.org. I've got quite a range of browsers here: IE 5.0, Opera and Lynx for Windows and Opera, Lynx, Firefox 1.5 and Links for Linux. All these can find my public web site from the reference in my private home page. In other words, I can't reproduce this problem, but here are some possible work-rounds:

learn a little HTML and store your links as a web page on your hard disk. You can use it as your home page or make it your one and only bookmark. Its easy to split it into a set of pages as it gets too big for easy use.
Try using another browser. If you use Windows you'll find that Firefox is a lot better than IE and Opera is better still. Both are free, too: download them and give them a try!
use www.gregorie.c3487738.myzen.co.uk as the link to my web site but be aware that it could become invalid, in which case you'll need to search for it or follow the links from the Free Flight Web Ring.
Bookmark the Web Ring and the Free Flight Web Ring. You should do this anyway. You can use the latter to access my web site.

Elementary trouble shooting

See if you can ping my web site using both names. Running ping in a DOS window should show the following results:

C:\>ping www.gregorie.org
PING www.gregorie.org (82.71.205.14) 56(84) bytes of data:
64 bytes from www.gregorie.org (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=1
ttl=53 time=30.9 ms
64 bytes from www.gregorie.org (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=2
ttl=53 time=31.9 ms
64 bytes from www.gregorie.org (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=3
ttl=53 time=31.7 ms
64 bytes from www.gregorie.org (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=4
ttl=53 time=32.2 ms


C:\>ping www.gregorie.c3487738.myzen.co.uk
PING www.gregorie.c3487738.myzen.co.uk (82.71.205.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from shcp17.hosting.zen.net.uk (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=1
ttl=53 time=30.9 ms
64 bytes from shcp17.hosting.zen.net.uk (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=2
ttl=53 time=31.9 ms
64 bytes from shcp17.hosting.zen.net.uk (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=3
ttl=53 time=31.7 ms
64 bytes from shcp17.hosting.zen.net.uk (82.71.205.14): icmp_seq=4
ttl=53 time=32.2 ms

If you're still having trouble and don't understand what ping is telling you, e-mail me with the results and I'll try to help.