Problems with the server?

[ceegee{Benz}]

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

[annie]

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...*

[_ID_]

yesterday and today in the mornings is been down. I assume for weekend maintenance?

[ceegee{Benz}]

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

[gagged_Louise]

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.

[ceegee{Benz}]

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.

[Warbaby1943]

Not only down but now I have experience it logging me out in the middle of a post.

[angelic.zest]

Sighzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[ceegee{Benz}]

Not only down but now I have experience it logging me out in the middle of a post.

lolol me too

[Rhabbi]

I have seen it crash in the midddle of a post, but so far I stay logged in.

*keeps fingers crossed*

*knocks on wood*

[MajesticFae]

I've had problems with it today too... yuck.

[nk_lion]

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

[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*

Nope actually logged me out and I had to log back in to continue.

[Clevernick]

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

[Rabbit1]

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

[nk_lion]

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.

[MajesticFae]

If the server stays fixed, Rabbit and Tiger both get cookies. *giggles*

[ceegee{Benz}]

welllllll.... is currently 9am london gmt...and i have been able to get in...YAY
but not counting my chickens before they hatch tho

[Rabbit1]

Thanks for fixing it.

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

[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.

[annie]

boo boo?... hmmmmm *passes out the band aids.. being the good mommy type person i am.... *

[caligirl{Rob}]

giggles at annie and slips in a box of chocolate covered carrots and tiger sized cat nip!

smiles

[js207]

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.

[Tiger]

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.

All looks good according to:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsrep...dsmlibrary.com

[isabeau6]

was there a bit of a problem today? or was it my damn computer again?? i so want to smash this computer at times....

[Warbaby1943]

was there a bit of a problem today? or was it my damn computer again?? i so want to smash this computer at times....

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.

[js207]

Can you give me more information on this error. I was not able to see any problem with the DNS servers.

All looks good according to:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsrep...dsmlibrary.com

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:

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!

[bthest]

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.

[Clevernick]

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?

[Clevernick]

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.