I’m having a weird connection issue.

Yesterday I noticed my little blog here was down for a few hours in the morning/early afternoon. I contacted the hosting provider and confirmed there was a small issue that would be fixed shortly. No biggie, I forgot about it.

Then I tried to access this site again (lordgonchar.com) and it was still not working for me. Contacted the host again and was assured that all was well and it certainly had to be on my end. I did everything I know how to do and still had no resolution. So I called a friend using a different ISP than me and had them check – my blog was working just fine.

Now I was jacked. I did a million and one things that I’d rather not list here and have the issue narrowed down to the following facts:

1. I cannot access my blog (lordgonchar.com) through my router.
2. If I go straight from the cable modem to the PC (by passing the router) I can access it.
3. If I go through the router and use an online proxy server (any number of those ‘surf anonymously’ sites) it works just fine.

What the hell is that about!?

It appears that for whatever reason I can’t get to my blog through the router and I can’t seem to find an answer to the issue anywhere.

UPDATE – So it gets even weirder. After I posted the above entry, the site hung on me and when I tried to reconnect, it wouldn’t let me – even using the cable modem straight to the PC. On a whim, I released my IP, rebooted the cable modem and scored a new IP.

It let me back on!

It’s acting almost as if the site (or WordPress) is banning my IP after I login to my account on the blog. I’ll be anxious to see what happens after I post this little update.