Forum was down today

[Psychlist1972]

It's entirely up to everyone's PCs, routers, and ISPs to get the DNS stuff down. For windows users, use the command I posted above. For Mac users, umm, I dunno but I'm sure there's a very clever and absolutely beautiful way to do it

Pete

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Psychlist1972

If he's still getting the error saying the site doesn't exist, it may be one of two things: 1. wait another day or two for the DNS records to finish replicating or 2. (if using a PC with Windows) start->run->cmd then type

ipconfig /flushdns

That will flush the local cache and force it to contact the provider's dns server to get the correct address.

If that doesn't work, it may be his provider still has the old record. Only time will fix that. Usually no more than a couple days.

For grins, he can also try accessing it by IP address (not sure if the forum software will allow that): http://174.123.200.146

[Edit: The server must be set up with host headers, as the IP address just brings you to the default apache page, so that won't work]

Pete

Awesome info Pete - thanks for that.

Originally Posted by Darko A.

About 4 days ago I started experiencing problems with FishLore.com getting always the same message (Page could not be displayed or similar, IE8 and FireFox 3). I though that the site was down due to maintenance (but it was a bit suspicious since no email notification was received) so I was patient for a couple of days with regular checks. Since every other site are working fine, I really do not know what is the problem except that my IP address could be banned or something. Now I am accessing the forum through some proxy server located in China (it was pain to find a working one at the first place, pages were loading very slowely with lot of failures). I also tried to access it via different ISP (good old dial-up in that case) and laso got problem. Could this be an indication of a more serious problem with DNS or some techy stuff?

Anyway, it is good to be here

Try what Pete said and if that doesn't work you may just have to wait a bit longer for your ISP to pick up the address for the site.

Originally Posted by Lucy

I still have only one foot in the door.
Hoping I can squeeze all the way in soon. lol

Thanks for all the hard work Mike, we really do appreciate it.

Lucy must have ninja'ed the locks. LOL. Ken may have to wait a bit longer until his ISP picks up the site again. I can tell by looking at the logs how it was a rolling blackout and then the stats started climbing again this moring into the evening. Hopefully he will be able to pull up the site tonight or tomorrow morn.

[Mystic54]

I nearly died when I couldn't access the site. I had this happen to me before with a popular chinchilla forum I used to get on. Unfortunetly with that situation we never got the site back up and running and all the information on that forum was lost.
I'm so glad everything is up and running with the forum again! Thanks Mike!!

[aquarist48]

I found the keys!!!!!!!!!!! Let me in!!!!!!

Thanks for all the help guys! Pete, great info! I actually learned how to PING a site. Mathas, thank you too!
Ken

[SWilkins]

Oh Fishlore is back and I can get in now whooo hoooo!!! Talk about withdrawals YIKES. I see there is much to catch up on and so much to update on we will have to slowly work through it all. I have to say I think I have Fishlore withdrawal flu now...at least I am hoping that is all it is...I really don't want swine flu blech...course I don't want this flu either. Thanks so much Mike for getting us back up and running again I just don't think you know how much we appreciate you!!!

[Red1313]

Whee!!! Just got back in!
Thanks Mike for hunting down the cause of the problem. Also thanks to all of you amazing member of facebook for helping to try and get me back on for the last 2/3 days
Bolivian Baby I don't know where you got that info you gave me from but

[bolivianbaby]

Welcome back, Red!

[aquarist48]

Welcome back Red. Just got back on myself earlier today.
Ken

[matt6765]

Thanks for getting it back up

[SCUGrad]

There has to be a way for people to contact other people outside the fourm. For example, if I can't get to the forum, i'd sure like to know if I could contact someone to tell me what the heck is going on. Is there someone in the know who would care to share their email with me so I could email that person in case something happens? Promise not to share that email with anyone else

[Lucy]

Do you have a FaceBook account? FishLore has a group there.
Just sign in and search for FishLore

[Mike]

I just set up a twitter account too. If something should happen to the db or the site again I'll use it to post status updates. http://twitter.com/fishlore

Thanks,
Mike

[Time]

It would be very helpful to get emails from somewhere too.

[Mike]

But if the site is down for some reason, like the database for instance, there won't be a way to retrieve the email addy's to send out a status email to the members.

[Time]

Well I don't know how twitter works but do you have to join to see fishlore issues?

[Mike]

Nope, just go to http://www.twitter.com/fishlore and it will have the latest messages from me. Twitter is really simple which is part of the reason for it's massive growth.

[Time]

Wow thanks I thought you had to be a twitter member to view Fishlore's status that is why I asked about emails.