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Title: Unstable site?
Post by: Razore on September 7, 2003 10:40 pm CDT
o.O EVERY DAY, The site is down for me, darwin tells me its up, but its never up for me, its a rarity I can get on the forums ><

Anyone know whats wrong?
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Post by: Darwin on September 7, 2003 10:41 pm CDT
Nah he tells me its down, and It'll be up for me.  Then it'll be up for him, and not up for me o.0
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Post by: -RPG-secretagnt on September 7, 2003 10:44 pm CDT
Always works for me. 0_o
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Post by: UnderGod on September 7, 2003 11:05 pm CDT
Its happening to a lot of people
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Post by: Pecker on September 7, 2003 11:33 pm CDT
Quote from: "-RPG-secretagnt"
Always works for me. 0_o
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Post by: Newbie on September 8, 2003 05:31 am CDT
I've never had a problem with it.
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Post by: Particle on September 8, 2003 06:35 am CDT
Me either.

It'd be nice to see a complete show of hands.
Title: Re: Unstable site?
Post by: FireWire on September 8, 2003 06:59 am CDT
Quote from: "Razore"
o.O EVERY DAY, The site is down for me, darwin tells me its up, but its never up for me, its a rarity I can get on the forums ><

Anyone know whats wrong?



LOL isnt that a blessing  :P...

Nothing personal i just like messing with ya raz its so fun... oh yeah site is never down for me... Must lub me to much eh.
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Post by: GE on September 8, 2003 07:27 am CDT
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Me either.

It'd be nice to see a complete show of hands.


It Happends to me every now and then, It seems like that happends when I keep refreshing/going back to diffrent Indexs, Like going from Assistance back to General Discussion. But Thats just what i have noticed.
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Post by: Jason_Xero on September 8, 2003 01:27 pm CDT
Works everytime I try to go here.
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Post by: Silvanoshei on September 8, 2003 05:22 pm CDT
The <forums.pcrpg.org> never worked for me, but everything else has been fine.
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Post by: Darwin on September 8, 2003 05:24 pm CDT
Why is it neccessary to type in (www.) before a website when on an intranet?
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Post by: Newbie on September 8, 2003 07:29 pm CDT
It's just always been like that..
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Post by: Jonah on September 8, 2003 08:38 pm CDT
Yea I have the same problem as Razore and Darwin.. It's down a lot of the time for me
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Post by: Hersh on September 8, 2003 09:08 pm CDT
When I try and get on to these forums through my AOL account it said I am banned, if I use IE it worked fine...Dunno why. Maybe something to look into?

Hersh

PS. I got this...
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Critical Information
 
You have been banned from this forum.
Please contact the webmaster or board administrator for more information.
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Post by: Particle on September 8, 2003 09:52 pm CDT
The site was down for a time this afternoon, but besides that I rarely see it down.
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Post by: Lidge Farkley on September 8, 2003 11:04 pm CDT
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Why is it neccessary to type in (www.) before a website when on an intranet?


Unless you were just kidding, the answer is that an intranet accesses items on the corporate network with the option of accessing the internet (if it has connection to the internet) where as a strictly internet connection will usually auto-direct to the right website with out the www.  It depends on how the intranet is set up for your business... at least, this is how the IIS book I have from 2 years a go dictates it.


Anyhow...

To answer the main question (why is the website sometimes down?):
The reason why it sometimes doesn't load is because either your intranet runs through a server (or 2 or 3 or 4 etc..) which process the data as it's being sent and recieved and then sends it to the specific machine you're using.  If you're using terminal based systems, like the hospital I work at, then you're more likely to run into delays which result in the "cannot connect" message, or network data collisions which result in the errors you described.  Network collision is a normal thing and happens on all networks, even the internet.  It usually shows up on a single home users machine as lag or a webpage timeout.  If you're on a large company intranet, you're likely to have more network collision with more people all trying to use the system at the same time, and not having enough servers or routers to handle all of the requests.

I hope that helped a little.  I got most of this information from the IIS book, a router manual and from a website I looked at a while back but no longer have the link to.

SoooOO!...... if you're accessing from an intranet (like I do sometimes) it's more likely to timeout or not connect during higher traffic times, and you can usually just hit "<ctrl> r" to refresh the page in a few seconds... possibly requiring a few refreshes.


Alllso, it could be the site you're trying to view getting too much information to process, but that is a lot less likely. :-)
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Post by: UnderGod on September 8, 2003 11:15 pm CDT
After doing numerous amounts of tests with several people, I have come to the conclusion that it is not the web site.

The errors everyone seems to be getting are DNS errors. It is however, not just on this web site.

Based on theory and evidence.. I believe there is a new virus that quite a few of us are getting..
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Post by: Lidge Farkley on September 8, 2003 11:19 pm CDT
Well, I don't get any errors from my home computer at all. :-)
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Post by: Darwin on September 8, 2003 11:24 pm CDT
Oh, but you will  :twisted:

Man, you are like a textbook dude...  So, can I buy your cliffnotes?

I was accessing these forums in my VB class earlier today, and was wondering about it...
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Post by: Particle on September 9, 2003 06:23 am CDT
Just a bit more on the specifics of a domain:
When you buy a domain, you're buying just blah.suffix.  You don't have to run a web server (www).  If you wanted to run just an ftp server (ftp), you'd have no http://www.blah.suffix (http://www.blah.suffix).  The prefixes just serve to redirect to the different services that you offer on your domain.  Not all websites will redirect blah.suffix to http://www.blah.suffix (http://www.blah.suffix), though most do.  Not specifying a prefix a sloppy habit that's becoming more and more common.
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Post by: Newbie on September 9, 2003 01:53 pm CDT
Quote from: "Hersh"
When I try and get on to these forums through my AOL account it said I am banned, if I use IE it worked fine...Dunno why. Maybe something to look into?


Maybe Particle banned AOL users =P

Nah, I used to have AOL, I hated it.  

When I finally got Cable I murdered all my AOL discs. :twisted:
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Post by: Jason_Xero on September 9, 2003 03:05 pm CDT
Anytime I see an AOL disc I murder it, whether it be one of those big giant revolving ones that probably have about 10,000 CDs.  That is when you know this world has gone to malarkey.
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Post by: Newbie on September 9, 2003 03:52 pm CDT
Yeah. When I see stores with free AOL cds for grabs, I always take a few and use them for weapons/frisbees.

Such a waste of a CD...      8)
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Post by: Razore on September 9, 2003 04:30 pm CDT
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Yeah. When I see stores with free AOL cds for grabs, I always take a few and use them for weapons/frisbees.

Such a waste of a CD...      8)


I thought I was the only one o.O
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Post by: Silvanoshei on September 9, 2003 04:53 pm CDT
Last year, one of my buddies had one or two hundred of those CD's in his locker. Literally. His entire top shelf was taken up with those things. Everyone would always grab a few and chuck them around for the day. It got so bad that the principal started issuing threats of suspension if he caught anyone throwing them. I swear, it was the latest fad.
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Post by: Particle on September 10, 2003 07:04 am CDT
Think of it as some sort of free disc launcher ammo, folks.
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Post by: -RPG-secretagnt on September 10, 2003 01:45 pm CDT
I think of it as time to use the best internet service and program around. =\
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Post by: Newbie on September 10, 2003 01:52 pm CDT
"Welcome to the world-wide-wow!"   :evil:
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Post by: Jason_Xero on September 13, 2003 02:32 pm CDT
What I like the most about their new spam 'real' mail, is they come in these big plastic DVD like boxes.  I love it, you can just take the cover out and use it as a big safe CD holder.  Or if you are into the whole "backing up of DVDs", throw em in there.

*note I just got one today  :D
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Post by: Darwin on September 13, 2003 04:06 pm CDT
I used to make stuff in art class from peices of AOL CD's.   One time me and my group made a really cool collage.
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Post by: Lidge Farkley on September 13, 2003 05:42 pm CDT
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Think of it as some sort of free disc launcher ammo, folks.


haha... we should paint stacks of them blue and leave them lying around in ammo boxes ;-D

//What's with the heartogram Darwin?  Isn't that... Him? Some of their stuff's good.
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Post by: Draak-DD on September 13, 2003 07:28 pm CDT
The site go down from time to time for me as well.

Dragus, Draak
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Post by: LastWish on September 15, 2003 07:22 am CDT
Quote from: "Razore"
Quote from: "Newbie"
Yeah. When I see stores with free AOL cds for grabs, I always take a few and use them for weapons/frisbees.

Such a waste of a CD...      8)

I thought I was the only one o.O


Haha!  I used to do that, too--they have those little "Try AOL Free!" things with like 60 CDs in it, I always took like 15 when I was leaving the store.  Then we would all get.. wasted.. and throw AOL cds..  *sigh*  I just realized how pathetic I used to be =x

Anyways...