What the hell?

[Ergot]

Stop being difficult! You know what he means :-P

I know what he thinks he means, but I don't think he knows what I mean! :)

I meant that both ways.  I think he's just being difficult :P

I prefer you use the word HARD instead of difficult :P
I'm only being difficult because Sidoh is hiding on my Buddy List :(

[Sidoh]

I prefer you use the word HARD instead of difficult :P
I'm only being difficult because Sidoh is hiding on my Buddy List :(

Haha.  That sounds like your problem, then! :)

[Sidoh]

GAH HA!!

I found what caused this issue.  Fucking MSN Messenger.  It's been overloaded with so much junk.  Back to gaim, I guess! :)

MSN has this "troubleshooting" tool which automatically launches when it can't figure out how to connect; oddly enough, windows messneger/gaim had no problems connecting!

I was looking more closely at it and it had a list of things it was checking up on, including "DNS", "Connection" and "Hosts File".  Once I saw that (this was after having fixed this problem already through the re-installation of TCP/IP on windows), I wondered if it was causing my problem.

Sure enough:

C:\>ping www.sidoh.org

Pinging sidoh.org [66.28.80.30] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.28.80.30: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 66.28.80.30: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 66.28.80.30: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 66.28.80.30: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 66.28.80.30:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Code Select Expand

127.0.0.1 localhost
10.0.0.15 sidoh.org
10.0.0.15 www.sidoh.org
10.0.0.15 sidoh.no-ip.org

Lession learned:  Don't use MSN Messenger. ;D