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[Fluff]

Has anyone else been having difficulty accessing the forum? I've been getting 'site unavailable' on and off recently, and haven't been able to access from home for around 3 weeks. Similar at work on a completely different host. This in spite of refreshes etc. I was beginning to wonder ...

[Richard H]

No problems here. Could be your ISP? Anyone else got any problems?

[bmiller14]

I did for a few days but then it just started working again.

[Fluff]

Weird! The thing was this was both BT Internet AND Demon. I had heard that BT Internet often had problems leaving sites out of their DNS servers (and denying it), but I lost the forum for 2 weeks on Demon as well. Of course anyone having trouble wouldn't be reading this...

By the way Richard I also emailed you several days ago asking you the same question; I take it you didn't get that. In the email I hinted at something sinister going on. I'm still wondering!

[Richard H]

I got your e-mail, but forgot to reply

[Fluff]

No problem. :-)

[The_Djinn]

I have had the odd issue on and off for a while. Normally just out for a night then can get back in the next day.
My issue is not DNS as I can do a DNS lookup using nslookup and the name resolves to the IP address of the server and I can ping it. Just no HTTP communication to name or ip, almost as if the server or ISP hits a limit and wont allow any more connections.

Mark

[Phoenix]

I occasionally get a "The page cannot be displayed" type message when I try to access the forum home page. However, I sometimes find I am able to get on by picking another page of the forum (eg a topic) from my history folder, and going to that. If not, the problem usually sorts itself out within a few hours.

[spawned]

spmetimes i get 404 but i assumed it was just the server ???

[Fluff]

I am still unable to access via demon. I checked with a whois service today and got the following (more personal details omited):

Name servers listed in order:
ns1.sitehqdns.co.uk (unable to validate IP)
ns2.sitehqdns.co.uk (unable to validate IP)

WHOIS database last updated at 19:00:01 19-Jul-2004

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© Nominet UK 1996 - 2004

Now I don't know how significant the '(unable to validate IP)' is but on other sites that I tried it gave the correct IP address, whereas ukrocketry was not identified on any whois server I tried. (To be fair they were all quoting Nominet)

[Richard H]

I'll speak to my host and see if the problem is with them or with your ISP.

Cheers

[Richard H]

Right, I have changed the name servers at the advice of my host. It seems Nominet decided to drop them! Hopefully this should fix all problems within the next 24-48 hours.

Cheers all.

[Fluff]

Looking better already...

[Richard H]

The server was down tonight, but is back up now, sorry about that folks

[broadsword]

I have been having problems accessing for the last couple of days i get a message saying:

There appears to be an error with the database.
You can try to refresh the page by clicking here.

Error Returned

mySQL query error: SELECT m.id, m.name, m.mgroup, m.member_login_key, m.email, m.restrict_post, m.view_sigs, m.view_avs, m.view_pop, m.view_img, m.auto_track,
m.mod_posts, m.language, m.skin, m.new_msg, m.show_popup, m.msg_total, m.time_offset, m.posts, m.joined, m.last_post, m.subs_pkg_chosen,
m.ignored_users, m.login_anonymous, m.last_visit, m.last_activity, m.dst_in_use, m.view_prefs, m.org_perm_id, m.mgroup_others, m.temp_ban, m.sub_end,
m.has_blog
FROM ipb_members m
WHERE m.id=901

mySQL error: Unknown column 'm.has_blog' in 'field list'
mySQL error code:
Date: Wednesday 24th of November 2004 12:16:17 AM

We apologise for any inconvenience

I don't think its my end because i can access all other websites! ANy other people getting this?