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Dear Sir, Cancer,

I have just been on the telephone to my personal ISP and they have told me after doing a diagnostic of your website from Australia that your DNS will not allow Australia to enter vampire rave.

Your DNS for Australia is 72.51.43.246 and my server tell me that you have blocked it from your end.

I have just been guided through by my ISP to change my own DNS so that I can log into vampire rave.

Can you please check this on the website to ensure that others from Australia can log in too?

Does anyone else have members of their coven or mentorships that have not been online for the past few days? If you have then this could be the reason why.

If people from Australia type in that DNS then they should be able to log in to vampire rave from there until Cancer can fix the problem.

Karawan, I was told to do something similar and now I am able to log in. Thank you for sharing this information as it will help others in their attempts to log in.

For all coven masters, if you have any Australian members and you are in contact with them through other means, like messengers or emails etc. please let them know how to log into VR.

I have a few friends on my list which haven't been on in a few days, however this is the only form of communication that I have with them. Thanks for the information, I wish I could do more to help with others, however I can't.

This issue is being worked on- but a lot of people in Australia are logging in without issue... so it's not a 'country-wide' thing at all.

G'day. I am in WestAustralia and I do use iinet. I think it was yesterday that I tried to log into VR and it seems asif there was no VR to log into. I kepted on trying, and until the afternoon I was then able to log into VR.

It has taken me personally over 3 days to log into VR. Every time I tried it came up with webpage not available error. So I too contacted my local ISP and they guided me through in changing my own DNS settings so that I could log into VR.

My ISP informed me that VR's DNS is 72.51.43.246 and if you type this into your url address bar, (where you would normallyl just type in www.vampirerave.com) that you should be able to gain access that way. I'm not entirely sure though if this would work for all countries, but as I'm in Australia it worked for me.

To change your personal DNS settings you will need some knowledge of IT and/or get guided through by your own ISP. It's accessible via your control panel, then internet connections and so forth.

I hope that when/if Cancer does the next update, that it will not happen again. It was just way too stressful this time.

I have just had contact with Posion from the Coven of Dragonsblood and he too can't log into VR.

He is in Illinois and his internet provider is Xanadoo, so it seems NOT to be only an Australian issue, but indeed an issue with VR itself.

Does anyone else have any complaints in regards to others not being able to log into VR?

Anyone that has emailed you privately or IM'd you to tell you that they can't log in either? If so, please place their location and their server provider in this thread so Cancer or Administrations can hopefully fix the situation.

Thanks people.

Sent out by Cancer earlier today:

"If there is an issue with Australian members unable to reach Vampire Rave, there is nothing I can do about it. I don't control the Internet. Sometimes major nodes go down and certain parts of the Internet are cut off from one another.

I am closing this thread.