Brief Hiccup in Service

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

Paris Love said:
Still out for me. A brief outage in internet land is less than 15 minutes. Almost 7 hours and counting now. When talking about outages, think of it like Freeway closures. Waiting 15 minutes for construction on the highway is irritation. When traffic is stopped for more than an hour, it is a major issue. Same for websites. .

Get a better ISP. Your ISP controls DNS propagation. Not us. Not our Host. Not our server.

Based on your IP, your Host is on a 16 hour schedule for non Premium consumer customers.

Because of the mirror, we were never actually offline. I'm so glad you're enjoying the mirror; aren't you lucky we went to the extra effort to set one up?

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

Chrissy said:
I couldn't either--all day--and then I tried restarting my computer, and it works now! If that helps anyone.

Restarting flushed your local DNS cache and make your computer actually check for the IP.

Parametric · May 20, 2013

Alas, the required spell has not yet been cast to make the .com version magically reappear for me. But I can wait. We ninjas lurk silently in the darkness.

bearilou · May 20, 2013

Parametric said:
Alas, the required spell has not yet been cast to make the .com version magically reappear for me. But I can wait. We ninjas lurk silently in the darkness.

Did you remember a goat? I had to remember a goat. Once I did, all was well again.

Parametric · May 20, 2013

bearilou said:
Did you remember a goat? I had to remember a goat. Once I did, all was well again.

That must be the problem. I can barely remember my own name, much less a goat.

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

Parametric said:
Alas, the required spell has not yet been cast to make the .com version magically reappear for me. But I can wait. We ninjas lurk silently in the darkness.

It's actually the same site. We simply changed the traffic route by changing the DNS.

benbradley · May 20, 2013

dpaterso said:
Dammit I'm able to link to everything without any problems, as usual, not that this helps anyone else!

If you're still having problems, as JustKia suggested above you might try clearing your browser cache, there's a FAQ for this if you need step-by-step instructions:

FAQ: Emptying Your Browser's Cache, History, and Deleting Cookies

-Derek

That link doesn't help me, as it goes to the .com page that I can't get to. Fortunately, I have Mad URL Editing Skillz, and THIS link goes to the .net page:
http://absolutewrite.net/forums/showthread.php?t=248935

Medievalist said:
It's propagated to about 88%.

At this point, if you're not having luck with .com, try emptying your browser history, purging your cache and *shutting down your browser/closing all windows*

Cookies won't matter on this --

I haven't tried clearing anything yet to see if that fixes the .com site. I'm happy with .net so far. How long will .net work?

I hear there's an Interstate highway shut down in Oklahoma, maybe someone should call the Governor.

milkweed · May 20, 2013

Medievalist said:
Restarting flushed your local DNS cache and make your computer actually check for the IP.

I restarted mine several times, have cleaned the cookies, history, etc., and nada.

Parametric · May 20, 2013

Medievalist said:
It's actually the same site. We simply changed the traffic route by changing the DNS.

With my lack of technical knowhow, all I'm hearing is, "We dug up the road and built a different one to the same place."

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

benbradley said:
I'm happy with .net so far. How long will .net work?

We set it up in 2009, and it's been working since then

Any AW URL will work exactly the same if you change .com to .net.

There are five images that are misbehaving, three tiny icons on the Advanced Post form, and two ads, for a reason that I haven't fully figured out.

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

Parametric said:
With my lack of technical knowhow, all I'm hearing is, "We dug up the road and built a different one to the same place."

We're diverting traffic from first street to second street, but you can still get to the library.

amergina · May 20, 2013

Still can't get to .com from home. Have rebooted the mac. (Also discovered my time capsule and router were in a double NAT. Fixed that...)

I have Verizon FiOS as my provider. :-/ Have not actually rebooted the router, but it's pretty dumb, so I doubt that'll help.

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

amergina said:
Still can't get to .com from home. Have rebooted the mac. (Also discovered my time capsule and router were in a double NAT. Fixed that...)

I have Verizon FiOS as my provider. :-/ Have not actually rebooted the router, but it's pretty dumb, so I doubt that'll help.

Reboot the router; your router has a DNS cache of sites you visit. Just power cycle it, wait about 45 seconds and turn it back on.

FluffBunny · May 20, 2013

Medievalist said:
Get a better ISP. Your ISP controls DNS propagation. Not us. Not our Host. Not our server.

I'd love to. *sighs* I live in a no-person's-land between a small city and a tiny little town served by the wee sma' phone company of said TLT. My only other choice is Comcast...err...Xfinity, provided I pay for them to bring service to my area. I'd rather hack off my right arm with a rusty spork. Or a foon.

There isn't any cell coverage here, either. It's...peaceful. Serene. Miserable for online gaming and DNS propagation. But stand assured that I do appreciate all the voodoo that you do so well.

amergina · May 20, 2013

Medievalist said:
Reboot the router; your router has a DNS cache of sites you visit. Just power cycle it, wait about 45 seconds and turn it back on.

Still no go. Rebooted the router (well, pulled the power, waited a minute and plugged it in). Flushed my dns (via the command line). No .com for me.

I'm grateful for the .net site!

I'm sure things here will pick it up eventually.

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

amergina said:
Still no go. Rebooted the router (well, pulled the power, waited a minute and plugged it in). Flushed my dns (via the command line). No .com for me.

I'm grateful for the .net site!

I'm sure things here will pick it up eventually.

We're actually affected more by the problems in Texas and Oklahoma. One of the major hosting complexes/server farms in Texas is completely offline. It's the hub for about a third of the U.S. traffic.

Plus the ongoing malware attacks on Apache, WordPress, and Joomla are causing major headaches.

Chumplet · May 20, 2013

stormie said:
Someone was excited to see AW back up and running.

Damn sausage fingers...

JSSchley · May 20, 2013

My outage lasted a super long time, too.

But you know what? I figured I'd actually WRITE for a change instead of procrastinating. I actually unconsciously kept typing in "abso" and having it autocomplete, tell me the DNS lookup failed, and then going, "Ah well. Guess that means I should keep going." Got almost 2K on my WIP yesterday. Thanks, guys!

Paris Love · May 20, 2013

Medievalist said:
Get a better ISP. Your ISP controls DNS propagation. Not us. Not our Host. Not our server.

Based on your IP, your Host is on a 16 hour schedule for non Premium consumer customers.

Because of the mirror, we were never actually offline. I'm so glad you're enjoying the mirror; aren't you lucky we went to the extra effort to set one up?

Whoa. Got it. Hasta.

jjdebenedictis · May 20, 2013

Oh, hey guys, you're back! (Or rather, if I'm understanding the techspeak correctly, I'm back.)

I'm so glad you're/I'm back! I missed you, guys! <<*smooch*>>

amergina · May 20, 2013

I added google's public DNS servers to my DNS list and *like magic* I can reach .com again. Huzzah!

Deleted member 42 · May 20, 2013

amergina said:
I added google's public DNS servers to my DNS list and *like magic* I can reach .com again. Huzzah!

Just remember that you've done that if later Google has an outage; they're a top-tier DNS so they can essentially out shout any others.

BenPanced · May 20, 2013

There's a dot net option?

milkweed · May 20, 2013

.com came up once after restarting... now only .net will come up

milkweed · May 20, 2013

Medievalist said:
We're actually affected more by the problems in Texas and Oklahoma. One of the major hosting complexes/server farms in Texas is completely offline. It's the hub for about a third of the U.S. traffic.

Plus the ongoing malware attacks on Apache, WordPress, and Joomla are causing major headaches.

And this is why I use the "server" service that I use for my web pages, they have a half dozen sites around the globe to redirect from so they are not held prisoner by the weather.

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