What happened to ProjectWestern?

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DARTrider

Goofy Fictional RR Owner

• Jul 31, 2021

• #1

Hello all.

I tried to download the ProjectWestern Northern Pacific F7A's (I wanted to upload a YT video with them) from their site, and when I pressed "Download" I got this error from Firefox:

Unable to connect

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at (IP Address)

It does not work on Edge either, something seems off. Anyone know what happened?
Thank you!

 

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hert

Screenshot Creator

• Jul 31, 2021

• #2

Looks like the mediafire links no longer work.

 

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evilcrow

Well-known member

• Jul 31, 2021

• #3

It's been like that for over two years.

Cheers, evilcrow

 

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DARTrider

Goofy Fictional RR Owner

• Jul 31, 2021

• #4

Weird, it worked for me a while ago. Maybe we could contact the devs there and have them help us out?

 

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JAGG

Well-known member

• Aug 1, 2021

• #5

It is weird to put IPs into the mediafire links but once all the rubbish on the left from the 2nd (or 4th respectively) slash is replaced by "http://www.mediafire.com/file", links start to work again ;-)

 

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DARTrider

Goofy Fictional RR Owner

• Aug 1, 2021

• #6

JAGG said:

It is weird to put IPs into the mediafire links but once all the rubbish on the left from the 2nd (or 4th respectively) slash is replaced by "http://www.mediafire.com/file", links start to work again ;-)

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That worked, thank you!

 

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JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003

• Aug 1, 2021

• #7

This sounds as if there's something wrong with a DNS server somewhere. The IP address will find the website directly, but a direct name-search using the http://, or www naming will not.

Logging directly into Mediafire, since I have an account, shows that this isn't an issue with Mediafire and something to do with the user's website.

 

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JAGG

Well-known member

• Aug 2, 2021

• #8

Not really, I tried to replace IPs in the links with appropriate DNS names with no success. It rather seems that mediafire moved internally the files on other servers.

 

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JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003

• Aug 3, 2021

• #9

JAGG said:

Not really, I tried to replace IPs in the links with appropriate DNS names with no success. It rather seems that mediafire moved internally the files on other servers.

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That can also cause a DNS issue if the DNS servers haven't cached the new location. I remember having that problem when I moved an MS Exchange server to another service. It took a day or so for the server to be found directly in the outside world, but we could get there by pointing directly to it via the IP address. After a day or so, things settled down and everything was back to normal.