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wingnutter Forever Learning 
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I was offline all day as I was working outdoors, but ome of my moderators posted this; "From about 11:57 til 15:27 today the site was unavailable - it was not just this site but the wow Ultra site as well." I didn't see any posts here about this so I'm wondering if it was just something at his end.
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Di Customer Service Rep. 
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Jim mentioned that people in England had a hard time accessing sites for a couple of hours today. I know Mag emailed and asked the same thing but we didnt have any problems at all today
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Mag License Holder 
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Hmm that is strange Steve. Myself and another coordinator in the UK couldn't access our site but it wasn't a problem for others. I came to the conclusion it was something this side of the pond as we are both with the same ISP, but then noticed that another UK member could get in ok. Most weird! Oops looks like I was posting at the same time as Di. Last edited on Wed Sep 24th, 2008 07:07 pm by Mag |
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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Yes I though it must have been something local as none of the US members had problems either here or at my forum, unless I missed it. Everything is fine at the moment.
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Jim Administrator 
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Servers were up, looks like there might have been a DNS snafu.
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Mag License Holder
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DNS snafu Can you explain that to the less technical minded please Jim LOL
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Devans License Holder 
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snafu --> hiccup, fart DNS --> Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an internet service that translates domain names into Ip addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they're easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name http://www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4. The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn't know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned. So basically the domain name server farted....  Last edited on Wed Sep 24th, 2008 08:55 pm by Devans |
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Mag License Holder
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So basically the domain name server farted.... Thanks for that information, Now I understand
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Devans License Holder
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Actually S.N.A.F.U. is a military acronym, meaning.... situation normally all ****ed up, but I was trying to be polite 
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Mag License Holder
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We learn something new every day 
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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Jim wrote: Servers were up, looks like there might have been a DNS snafu. Yes it was only that Jim, thanks.
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Jim Administrator
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When a server is having problems it exhibits symptoms just like when people are getting sick. It will have a higher load than it has been averaging, disks will become unusually full quickly, memory usage will climb rapidly.... our servers exhibited none of these symptoms. It looks like it was bottle necking at the name level which doesn't mean it wasn't Data 1's problem but meant it wasn't on the hosting servers. The sites hosted on our server where the name was held elsewhere did still work through most of the weirdness. It might not have been the name source either, it could have been one of about 20 routers in between the names and our servers. No telling really. I am sorry for the problems. Jim
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Mag License Holder
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The problem was short lived Jim, no worries
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