[Bug] Unable to access Halforums without proxy... again.

Simfers · Feb 5, 2015

Yeah, and it's back now, Everything seems to be going fine. I guess I'll never understand the vagaries of computer thingamajigs.

GasBandit · Feb 5, 2015

Simfers said:
Yeah, and it's back now, Everything seems to be going fine. I guess I'll never understand the vagaries of computer thingamajigs.

Just out of curiosity, are you running your blackberry off your wifi, or its own cellular data connection?

Simfers · Feb 5, 2015

No wi-fi, just the cell signal.

GasBandit · Feb 5, 2015

Simfers said:
No wi-fi, just the cell signal.

Then it's my opinion your ISP's DNS is fooking with you. If you change your DNS to Google's DNS, I bet you won't have this problem so much.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Simfers · Feb 5, 2015

Thank you Mr. Bandit! :thumbsup:

AshburnerX · Feb 5, 2015

That was exactly my problem before.

PatrThom · Feb 5, 2015

So far, it seems to be DNS-related every time this thread gets a bump.

--Patrick

Simfers · Feb 5, 2015

Welp, just tried it and so far so good, we'll see if it sticks. Precedent seems to be on my side anyway.

Thanks for your help, guys!

DarkAudit · Feb 26, 2015

This one was weird. I tried to log in while connected to a VPN while at work. Got a "This Account Has Been Suspended" page. Went in with Safari on my iPad, which was on hotel wi-fi. Nothing wrong. Disconnect from the VPN, and I get here fine.

Well here's the problem. Tracerts going to different destinations.

Tracert with VPN on:

Tracert with VPN off:

AshburnerX · Feb 26, 2015

I had the same problem. I just exited out to the Halforums homepage, then came in the forums from there.

Still weird though.

DarkAudit · Feb 26, 2015

Connected to the VPN again and it's fine. Hrm. :confused:

Dave · Feb 26, 2015

There was a server that took a shit. The backup apparently denied the requests for connection. Host had to physically go to the server farm and hot swap.

PatrThom · Feb 26, 2015

Dave said:
There was a server that took a shit. The backup apparently denied the requests for connection. Host had to physically go to the server farm and hot swap.

That explains why time wound back a bit there.
I noticed this morning that some of the posts I read last night were marked as unread again this morning and figured something like that had to have happened.

--Patrick

DarkAudit · Feb 26, 2015

TIL HF supports pastebin.