Curious as to why a TL-R600VPN v4.0 router would deny access to an external domain
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- Router in service for about a year with no issues
- laptop running W7Pro64 (no recent updates)
- Laptop connects fine to other url's and has been connecting to this blocked url fine up until today
- today after resuming from Sleep, found no connection to Email and Webservices from a Domain I look after for a non profit club I belong to
- was able to connect via another machine at a different location .
- rebooted the Laptop and still nothing
- Pinging both the url and IP returned an immediate response from the TL-R600 that the host was unreachable
- logged in to the TL R600 and was able to ping url from the Router
- was able to ping and log in to this url from another PC on the LAN SIDE of this Router
- Only after rebooting the Router was I able to reestablish connection to the Site url
- After the dust settled, I also noticed that there was a new update for this device, so, have updated the Firmware
- Looking at the Router logs, there is no indication of a fault or reason for this URL BLOCKAGE
Questions:
1) Does one just chock this up as a glitch in the Router?
OR
2) Are there other diags and or areas of the configuration that can be run/checked to ensure the router isn't showing signs of early issues?
3) Why would a Router selectively BLOCK requests to one URL?
4) One aspect of my Laptop use is that; I do travel to this Club's Site and do access this URL from that location (different Router & ISP) ... the last resume from Sleep would have had to renegotiate with the TL-600 so perhaps there was some confusion with credentials for this particular URL due to having just been on site?