hi
just wondering if there is a massive problem with the servers?
for the last 2 days it has been really hard to get in.....the site was down for over 6 hrs yesterday....and again today
cg
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hi
just wondering if there is a massive problem with the servers?
for the last 2 days it has been really hard to get in.....the site was down for over 6 hrs yesterday....and again today
cg
cg... i don't know about yesterday but i do know it was down this morning. Several of us tried to get in and i know for once it wasn't just me! lol.
Not sure what is going on though...
*waits for the answer as well...*
yesterday and today in the mornings is been down. I assume for weekend maintenance?
well i woke yesterday and logged into the forums at 10.30am london time and they was down then.......finally got back in at 5pm
today.....i was up early and they was down at 8am london time right thru to 7pm with a 10 min open window at 1pm (just enough time to see the forum working then it went down again)
if thats any help.
for most on the boards u guys were sleeping LMAO
I agree, it's been the same here, I've seen a few long breaks since friday and monday it was down almost all day (although not to everyone it seems). I really think Tiger should talk a bit with the owners of the server hosting this place.
grrrrr yet another day of server probs...sighssssssss
7am GMT to about 5 mins ago...with a 5 min window about 3pm.
thats 12 hrs the site has been down again today.
Not only down but now I have experience it logging me out in the middle of a post.
Sighzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
lolol me tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Warbaby1943
I have seen it crash in the midddle of a post, but so far I stay logged in.
*keeps fingers crossed*
*knocks on wood*
I've had problems with it today too... yuck.
Well, the longer the server goes down, the more work I get done at work. Unless that is once my own boss decides to stop sneaking out and leaving me with everything.
But it seems that the server goes down from the morning (Eastern Standard Time) to early afternoon
Nope actually logged me out and I had to log back in to continue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhabbi
From the London (GMT) time zone, it's been down every morning and early afternoon for the last 3 days, doesn't show up until dinnertime.
Probably for the best though :)
Tiger fixed a problem with some disappearing stories and messed up some settings in the process ---it should be fixed now---as I was out of town yesterday I did not find the problem until I checked my email this morning and had a report of the site being down
Thanks for fixing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rabbit1
If the server stays fixed, Rabbit and Tiger both get cookies. *giggles*
welllllll.... is currently 9am london gmt...and i have been able to get in...YAY
but not counting my chickens before they hatch tho
Quote:
Originally Posted by nk_lion
well I do not want to lead you to believe I fixed it ---lol but I did contact Tiger after I did the tech support people and had him look into it ---he found he made a boo boo ---lol
I could not log in either ---so I could not have fixed it even if I knew what the problem was
Well, thanks for calling the right people to fix it, either way, my boss is out and this forum beats work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rabbit1
boo boo?... hmmmmm *passes out the band aids.. being the good mommy type person i am.... *
giggles at annie and slips in a box of chocolate covered carrots and tiger sized cat nip!
smiles
There's another long-standing problem: one of the two DNS servers responsible for the bdsmlibrary.com library (ns14.guihosting.com) isn't doing its job, just returning errors instead. The other server, ns13.guihosting.com, is working - but this means people will keep getting errors accessing the site, even though the web server itself is fine.
Can you give me more information on this error. I was not able to see any problem with the DNS servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by js207
All looks good according to:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsrep...dsmlibrary.com
was there a bit of a problem today? or was it my damn computer again?? i so want to smash this computer at times....:pu
There was a problem and we have another thread going called Rabbit or Tiger where we are letting them know of these problems so hopefully they can track them down.Quote:
Originally Posted by isabeau6
I think that link only checks *one* of the DNS servers; this version checks all of them, and the results don't look so good:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiger
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/traver...ary.com&type=A
Right now, guihosting.com's own name servers (ns and ns2 .guihosting.com) are both reporting that ns13.guihosting.com simply doesn't exist - that seems to be why I couldn't get any answer from ns13: I couldn't get to ns13 in the first place!
I can't access BDSM library at all for days on end. "Server not Found" etc. Then for a day or two it works perfectly (such as today) then goes back to "server not found" for about another week.
I think the warnings that appear in http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsrep...dsmlibrary.com may all be worth fixing.
An open DNS server is just asking to be overloaded or attacked.
Having both your DNS servers in the same place is unreliable.
This one's particularly unreliable:
ERROR: Although you have at least 2 NS records, they both point to the same server, resulting in a single point of failure. You are required to have at least 2 nameservers per RFC 1035 section 2.2.
And your extra-long timeouts will mean slow recovery from DNS problems. Note that a DNS problem may affect some users and not others, and have no obvious effect locally at the server. Similar to what people are complaining about. So it's worth looking into these!
I think all of these are easily corrected and if they are, will result in improved reliability for the site.
Do you know that you can rent a second nameserver/DNS server offsite from a place like enom.com for a miniscule annual fee?
Hello admins!
If you're wondering where I and perhaps some proportion of your readers have gone, bdsmlibrary.com has been invisible to my browser for the last three days!
I'm in here through a web proxy now!!! When I come in with my regular IP address, this site doesn't exist.
I am assuming my IP address has not been banned (I hope) so my guess is that there's a problem with your DNS servers. If some people can reach the site and others can't it's usually that some DNS servers have an invalid or out-of-date address for you.
I notice that your DNSstuff analysis mentions a few possible problems of this type (as I detailed in my last post) so that might be it.
But it's real, and a few people really are being blocked out by it. And now it's me.
Please reply, admins!
Thanks,
Clevernick.
The problem is your IP not updating DNS addresses --it has happened to me before ----and I called my IP and they fixed it ---
If that is it, Rabbit1, then reducing the DNS timeouts on your server will help me and others when it happens.
See the warnings on your DNSStuff report. Other servers will follow those very long timeouts and won't update their DNS addresses for a long time.
If I call my ISP and ask them to update, they will tell me to ask you to reduce your timeout.
Unless there is some unusual reason why they should be so long...
Just FYI --
Tonight I'm locked out again, and using a web proxy.
This morning and for the last day and a half, I've been ok logging in normally.
For three days before that, I was locked out.
I still think you could reduce your server DNS timeouts to help fix this, in case it's a problem for others besides me.
the forums are extremely slow to load right now.
any idea why? cause I got no problems with other sites atm
I used to have this slow loading problem a lot, so I went and changed the defaults in the options so that I only load 10 post per page instead of the forum default 30 and that helped a lot. It all but eliminated it. Also, using Firefox the forum loads faster, not sure why, maybe there is a setting in IE that can be tweaked for this but I have no idea what it is.
Having very slow or stalled loading of pages tonight, both on Explorer and on Firefox. There hasn't been any total break of contact though, so I guess the trouble may not be with the server but somewhere along the web.
glad I wasnt the only one with that problem yesterday Louise.
Seems to load just fine today though.
I don't know if this is the same problem, but I occasionally have trouble getting to the server. I will get error messages saying that the server can't be found. I get the messages in Firefox and in IE, on two different computers, so I don't think it's my system. I suppose it could be my ISP, but I don't get this with any other sites, just this one. I can be surfing through the forums and suddenly get the error when I click on a link. After a minute or two, whether I keep trying or not, I get back in. This is the ONLY site where I've experienced this, and it happens with the Forums and with the stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiger
It's been very bad today, Saturday. Very frustrating. I can access other sites, either using a different browser or a separate tab in this one, but this site does not want to cooperate!
Actually, even the link quoted by Tiger doesn't look so good: It shows two red "FAIL" points and 7 warnings, all of which look worth fixing to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by js207
I am still wondering why Tiger thinks it all looks good.
The slow loading problems people had the other day are probably unrelated - that sounds like a database overload which can happen for lots of spurious reasons. But the people unable to get in at all, when the site is actually up, could easily be due to those DNS warnings.
Both the DNS servers on which bdsmlibrary.com relies are currently DEAD (or rather, their own DNS entries have disappeared, rendering them unreachable), and have been for a few hours at least.
Since the main webserver here is running Linux, it seems odd to rely on guihosting.com's clearly inadequate service when installing tinydns and configuring upstream glue would give a far more reliable service to us all - in exchange for half an hour's admin time to set up, plus a few megabytes of space. That way, the domain can only be down when the webserver itself is down anyway - much better all round!