Comments on: Clogged Tubes

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:26:10 +0000

I had no trouble getting to you this morning (Friday 2/1/08 @ 8:23 am ET) but I've been having trouble getting to Shakesville from my office for two days now. All other sites load fine, it's just that one, and only from this computer. (Shh.) It loads fine and fast at home over Bellsouth DSL. Curioser and curioser.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:02:47 +0000

It has to be the .us server, because I can get here though the direct link behind the .us alias. It is getting better, which probably indicates they have discovered they have a problem and are fixing it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:10:01 +0000

Still problematical Friday just after midnight…

Aside to Badtux: I have the same web host as Bryan, and it’s not happening to my site as far as I can tell.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:21:14 +0000

And just in time for us to gripe about it, it started working again :-). I just sat in a loop doing host lookups at both of your DNS servers and had nary a failure. I then telnet’ed to port 80 of all three of the hosts reported by your DNS server and found that each was a fully functioning Squid server. If the problem was that the Squid server could not look up the data on your actual server, we’d get a Squid error, not a DNS error. So it looks like something got fixed somewhere… and yes, I had the same problem connecting to your site earlier today.

That’s one reason I’m glad I’m on Blogspot now (and have my DNS divided between two different ISP’s), Google is pretty good at that “run a big massive webfarm” thingy :-).

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:39:19 +0000

Thanks all. It’s definitely a DNS problem, so I wonder if it’s with the .us registry and not my ISP.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:18:48 +0000

More info I forgot to post: the delay and failure are apparently in looking up the domain.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:16:43 +0000

FWIW, Bryan, it must be close to home on your end, because I have no trouble seeing any of the other sites you named… only yours. Sometimes it takes me two or three tries to get your site to load.

I suppose now that DHS will have to initiate a program to detect and prevent terrorism by evil fishing boat anchors…

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:11:37 +0000

cat power must be working in my favor, because i’ve had very few problems connecting to your site, and none at all connecting to bark bark woof woof or the yellow doggerelist.

offshoring though is a sore point, including the fact that my ‘real’ email is having problems [again] and the tech support people don’t live anywhere near here.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:02:45 +0000

I thought something strange was happening, and wondered if someone was playing silly-buggers with your site. I get a lot of timeouts and no connects also.

We had a problem some years ago with our brand new undersea cable that our wonderful (LMAO) Telstra lay on the ocean floor where it should have been safe and snug. Except a section floated to the surface and got sliced by a fishing trawler! Typical.

Cutting corners to increase profits just works so well doesn’t it?

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:50:49 +0000

Info: still clogged as of 1651 Thursday. It took me three tries to get here just now.