Posting during downtime

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Well, I've managed to figure out why SFN is down, with a bit of WHOIS fun.

 

I did a WHOIS search on SFN and found the original IP of it, after realizing the main problem was that the URL wasn't resolving to an IP. This brought me to a blank page. Knowing that most webhosts have the actual URL at http://ipaddress/~user, I tried a few usernames until I found the right one. Now I got the forums.

 

Of course, there were no images (the images were all linked to scienceforums.net, which timed out) and I couldn't log in (the form action lead to the nonfunctional domain name as well). So I copied the login page source to my computer, modified the form action= statement, and tried again.

It worked. So now we know it's the DNS and not the server itself that's the problem.

 

So here I am, posting in the middle of the downtime. I guess I get a star for trying, right?

 

edit: dang, vB looks ugly without images!

[AzurePhoenix]

yay for cyber-wizzes

[5614]

That's pretty neat... nice one

[RyanJ]

Nice job

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

[Dave]

Yeah, sorry for all of this downtime. I think some of it might be to do with the fact that our hosts are currently upgrading and migrating their servers over to a new data centre, and that's caused a few problems. Hopefully, it should all be sorted out now, but I guess we'll wait and see.

[Bio-Hazard]

I think the only thing I fear is that problem with AOL back in the day when you would get that screen that said there was a problem with your browser when there was just really a problem with AOL and you had a virus or something and you had to reformat.. ;_; those things strike fear in me, along with anger.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

dave:

 

I've peeked at the host's forums, and they claimed that there should have only been a few minutes of downtime, and that it was over with already (I think.).

They haven't had any outages there either, according to their network status section.

 

Hrm.

 

 

(Dare I also point out that the site is rather slow lately.)

[1veedo]

Of course, there were no images (the images were all linked to scienceforums.net, which timed out)

That's the exact thing that used to happen to me. I have a thread in feedback or something about it. It seems to work right now and has been for a while. Normally it works for a while and then the immages stop loading...

 

I've learned to cope.