Forum access
Forum access
Anyone else having issues accessing the forum? It has been sporadic for me the last couple of days.
I've caught my yearly case of pinewood fever and it is torture when I get an email notification of a post update and I can't read it.
I've caught my yearly case of pinewood fever and it is torture when I get an email notification of a post update and I can't read it.
- gpraceman
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Re: Forum access
Is that trouble logging in or just getting to the site?
Randy Lisano
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Re: Forum access
Getting to the site. All morning I kept getting something like site not found message. I was not able to get to grandprix-race-central.com either, but could get to grandprix-software-central.com
- gpraceman
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Derby Talk and GrandPrix Race Central have been moved to a new server. GrandPrix Software Central is on a separate server.sprntrcr wrote:Getting to the site. All morning I kept getting something like site not found message. I was not able to get to grandprix-race-central.com either, but could get to grandprix-software-central.com
I have not yet setup server monitoring on that new server. I'll get this setup, so I can get some stats on up time.
I personally have not been having any problems accessing this site. I check it several times a day.
Randy Lisano
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Re: Forum access
I've been having the same problem.sprntrcr wrote:Anyone else having issues accessing the forum? It has been sporadic for me the last couple of days.
I've caught my yearly case of pinewood fever and it is torture when I get an email notification of a post update and I can't read it.
Lucky 13
- gpraceman
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So far, 3 people have reported that problem. One called me and was able to get to the website using the IP address, so the site itself is not down (otherwise, I would not be posting this).Lucky13 wrote:I've been having the same problem.
If it happens again, please do the following:
1. Click on the Windows Start button
2. Select Run
3. Enter "cmd" (without the quotes)
4. Click on the OK button
5. Enter "tracert derbytalk.com" (again, without the quotes)
6. Hit the Enter key
See if the trace route indictates where the problem is. Then drop me an email at webmaster@derbytalk.com
Randy Lisano
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Re: Forum access
I have been on the site a lot the last couple of days and not had any problem at all.
- woodenshoe1
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Re: Forum access
I have had problems also.
Wooden Shoe
Wooden Shoe
Re: Forum access
Randy ,
I have also had the same problem daily on 2 or 3 different computers ever since the 1969 display episode...
PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED
It's almost to where I cannot hardly wait for 8:30 PM EST to visit the site ...
I only have success with visiting the site from around 8:00 PM EST to about 10:00 PM EST...
I will have to document your instructions and try it tommorrow for it's almost sure to show PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED
and if it shows page cannot be displayed then I will not be able to see the instructions you have described , if it does'nt work I'll send you an e-mail ...
I have also had the same problem daily on 2 or 3 different computers ever since the 1969 display episode...
PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED
It's almost to where I cannot hardly wait for 8:30 PM EST to visit the site ...
I only have success with visiting the site from around 8:00 PM EST to about 10:00 PM EST...
I will have to document your instructions and try it tommorrow for it's almost sure to show PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED
and if it shows page cannot be displayed then I will not be able to see the instructions you have described , if it does'nt work I'll send you an e-mail ...
- gpraceman
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Re: Forum access
Supposedly this has been fixed, but it can take 24 hours to ripple through the Internet world.
Randy Lisano
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
- Stan Pope
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Re: Forum access
Wow! a 17 hop path from here:gpraceman wrote: "tracert derbytalk.com"
Tracing route to derbytalk.com [64.20.44.24]
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 74-139-176-1.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.139.176.1]
3 9 ms 10 ms 11 ms 74-134-3-217.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.134.3.217]
4 11 ms 10 ms 12 ms 74-134-0-153.dhcp.insightbb.com [74.134.0.153]
5 12 ms 34 ms 13 ms 74.128.8.229
6 15 ms 17 ms 18 ms sl-gw37-chi-1-1-0.sprintlink.net [144.228.18.253]
7 16 ms 17 ms 15 ms sl-crs2-chi-0-4-0-3.sprintlink.net [144.232.10.19]
8 45 ms 47 ms 39 ms sl-crs2-nyc-0-12-0-3.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.163]
9 38 ms 39 ms 38 ms sl-bb26-nyc-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.7.37]
10 37 ms 36 ms 36 ms sl-gw40-nyc-15-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.13.48]
11 36 ms 37 ms 37 ms 204.251.166.46
12 39 ms 38 ms 36 ms core-01-teb1.us.njiix.net [64.20.32.174]
13 39 ms 36 ms 38 ms core-03-teb2.us.njiix.net [64.20.32.237]
14 39 ms 40 ms 37 ms edge-09-teb2.us.njiix.net [64.20.32.98]
15 39 ms 38 ms 37 ms edge1-110b.fbyne.com [209.250.226.70]
16 36 ms 38 ms 39 ms noptr.cpxserver.com [64.20.39.242]
17 39 ms 42 ms 42 ms lisanoenterprises.fbyne.com [64.20.44.24]
If some of the customers" are having failures, it could be a DNS out-of-whack too. If lookup in DNS fails, that should show up as a failure to translate the URL to the (numeric) IP address, i.e. the line "Tracing route to derbytalk.com [64.20.44.24]" could not show the "[64.20.44.24]" info!
I've had a few occasions where running the command
ipconfig /registerdns
seems to clear up such address translation problems. The cure is not instantaneous ... takes a few seconds (minutes?) for everything to get repaired. I think that this is effective at cleaning up "my end" of the translation, and not for fixing DNS propagation problems.
Stan
"If it's not for the boys, it's for the birds!"
"If it's not for the boys, it's for the birds!"
- gpraceman
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One site user got an "Unable to resolve target system name derbytalk.com" error when trying that traceroute.Stan Pope wrote:If some of the customers" are having failures, it could be a DNS out-of-whack too. If lookup in DNS fails, that should show up as a failure to translate the URL to the (numeric) IP address, i.e. the line "Tracing route to derbytalk.com [64.20.44.24]" could not show the "[64.20.44.24]" info!
I submitted a ticket to the server management company I use and they indicate this problem has been corrected. They didn't indicate what the root cause was though. According to the domain registrar, it was not a problem on their end, so I assume it was a problem with the nameserver setup.
Randy Lisano
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
- Go Bubba Go
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Re: Forum access
That "wooosh" sound you here is this entire topic going over my head.
I have had some issues with the "page not found" error, I believe on Tuesday and Wednesday, but nothing today.
Bubba
p.s. maybe I'll print this string out and sit down later with a nice warm cup of tea and try to learn something.
I have had some issues with the "page not found" error, I believe on Tuesday and Wednesday, but nothing today.
Bubba
p.s. maybe I'll print this string out and sit down later with a nice warm cup of tea and try to learn something.
"Who's Grandpa's neighbor?"... Phil Davis, Down and Derby
- Stan Pope
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Computers and the internet are "all magic", which is as much as most of the user population needs to know to be happy and fulfilled. Some of us just need more to reach that same level of happiness and fulfillment!Go Bubba Go wrote:That "wooosh" sound you here is this entire topic going over my head.
So trust your DNS and your DHCP (but not your IRS) and reboot once in a while and all will be well. I try to learn this other stuff cuz I hate to reboot! Once a month is too often. But those monthly M$oft patches seem to demand a reboot.
Stan
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- gpraceman
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Re: Forum access
At least one of the users having the problem yesterday is now able to access the site without a problem.
Randy Lisano
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.
Romans 5:8
Awana Grand Prix and Pinewood Derby racing - Where a child, an adult and a small block of wood combine for a lot of fun and memories.