yoyo52
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Registered: 05/25/01
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Yesterday I couldn't get on the forum pages for a couple of hours. I figured it was the cyber-boyd version of a transient ischemic attack, and when I tried again yesterday evening, everything was ok. But then the same thing just happened. I couldn't get on for a couple of hours. Is it my ISP acting up, a problem with the forums, or a problem in the intertubes?
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It definitely appears to be a DNS issue. At certain times doing a lookup for this site comes back as a host not found. So, if you haven't been here for a bit and your DNS cache has expired then you can't get to the site. If you still have it cached, then you can.
I don't have access to the DNS servers, but I did send an email to Neil to inform him.
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yoyo52
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Thanks, Rick. I had it happen for a little bit this morning again. The odd thing is that I come here pretty frequently, and the access problem has happened only after I have been on the site, usually just a few minutes before the problem occurs.
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yoyo52
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Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 28875
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It's almost impossible to get on the forums this afternoon. Even when I do get on, the page does not fully load. Here's what I see.
An incidentally, when I post a comment, I have to quit the page-load and go back to the top page of the forums, which I can get to only after stopping and starting the loading several times.
edit: Ok, so now all the problems have stopped and the page loads without a hitch.
Edited by yoyo52 (08/03/1009:37 AM)
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I think it's more than what I originally had thought. When/if you have trouble accessing here again, can you also try AppleCentral.com and MacTech.com It's definitely DNS related, but trying to figure out the extent of it so I can give Neil the best information to get it fixed.
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