Administrators Eric Posted June 30, 2021 Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2021 Hi guys. Those of you up late tonight might have noticed a couple of hours of downtime here at TBS. I would love to be able to blame someone else for it, but it was all me. I was making some changes to the TBS site domain name DNS records and screwed something up. For those of you that don't know, DNS stands for 'Domain Name System'. It is the layer of the Internet that helps to resolve those easy-to-remember domain names, to not-so-easy-to-remember IP numbers, that point to the servers where domain names' sites reside. When it doesn't work, nothing works. Anyway, it was a PITA to figure out the problem, but I found it and we are back up. Sorry about that. Carry on. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Oh no! Eric is changing from GenX to Boomer before our eyes! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Its all good Eric. No apologies needed you do one helluva job keeping this site going and ALL of appreciate that. So thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Good job. DNS issues are sucky. Like trying to deal with a stripped slotted screw with a 25 ft screwdriver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted June 30, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2021 8 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: Good job. DNS issues are sucky. Like trying to deal with a stripped slotted screw with a 25 ft screwdriver. It was a small syntax error, buried in a page of settings. My eyes are getting too old for this ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted June 30, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2021 Is anyone experiencing a longish delay after they hit the submit button, when they post something, since the downtime earlier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Initiates and refreshes as expected here. <--- once made a similar error in a long shell script that cascaded to about 20 routers. Those are, Well, heck. Just heck,' moments. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted June 30, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2021 3 minutes ago, tous said: Initiates and refreshes as expected here. <--- once made a similar error in a long shell script that cascaded to about 20 routers. Those are, Well, heck. Just heck,' moments. Maybe I still have a cached lookup on my end, maybe in my router, that is timing out on some types of traffic. Who knows. When DNS starts screwing up, it can cause the damnedest problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Inserts of new posts are unusually slow. Updates are as rapid as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Test... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Test posted in half a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted June 30, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2021 I fixed the issue that was slowing down posting. I think everything is working, at this point. Someone make note of the time. This may never happen again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted June 30, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2021 This evening has been a PITA. I’m glad everything got resolved. I can’t get any sleep, if I go to bed while something is broken on the site. I’ll usually just pull an all-nighter. I’m very happy I won’t have to tonight. All-nighters are longer than they used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar_ml Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Eric said: It was a small syntax error, buried in a page of settings. My eyes are getting too old for this ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Cougar_ml said: Back in the DOS days I wrote a little program that put a C:\ prompt onscreen and accepted input. No matter what the user entered it replied "Bad command or file not found". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 2 hours ago, gwalchmai said: Back in the DOS days I wrote a little program that put a C:\ prompt onscreen and accepted input. No matter what the user entered it replied "Bad command or file not found". Did you put the program call in the startup sequence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 49 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Did you put the program call in the startup sequence? Of course. Another fun thing was to take a screen cap of the user's Windows desktop and set it as his wallpaper. Then move all the real icons offscreen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 WHAT are you guys talking about....I don't understand any of those words ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Tiger Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, DAKA said: WHAT are you guys talking about....I don't understand any of those words ? Translation - Eric broke the website. My only objection is it appears only Eric can use the tag "Dumbass." Edited June 30, 2021 by SC Tiger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted June 30, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted June 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, SC Tiger said: Translation - Eric broke the website. My only objection is it appears only Eric can use the tag "Dumbass." 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 6 hours ago, SC Tiger said: My only objection is it appears only Eric can use the tag "Dumbass." That's Big Giant Dumbass to you. Show some respect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Shoot. I thought I did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie-pete Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Ever since the WuFlu hit, you just can't good help anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampfox762 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Walt Longmire said: Shoot. I thought I did it. Hell, I was in bed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 You timed it perfectly, because I had no electricity yesterday, so no internet, and it didn't come back on til sometime after I gave up and went to bed. Tree took out the line 2 miles up the road. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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