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Hello everyone,

First of all thanks to all the folk that tried to help the last time I bordered this issue.

I continue to have problems accessing the site, especially posting comments. Yesterday I spent two hours between 9 am and 11 am trying to post a comment at my latest thread on SER-2. This time I wasn't only unable to comment, every link, button, etc, would simply leave my browser waiting for an answer from the website, that would about 20 minutes later display a time out error.

I then tried something different, as a desperate measure I tried accessing the site with internet explorer (instead of Firefox). Posts made by this browser still "hang up" but an answer seems to eventually arrive. It took me about an hour to post a new log entry in the afternoon, but it eventually came up.

This is really strange, because the time out errors I get with Firefox doesn't seem to be generated by the browser itself, but by some http server.

Next time I experience this problem I'll try to run a ping or a tracert command to see if I can get anything else.

Thanks once again.

Vencit omnia veritas.

by Luis de Sousa (luis[dot]a[dot]de[dot]sousa[at]gmail[dot]com) on Thu Jan 15th, 2009 at 03:29:22 AM EST
Some of our swiss users were having problems like this which were related to their ISP and they found a workaround by using a certain proxy server. I don't remember the details but someone should :-)

Good luck getting this fixed, we miss your comments.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 15th, 2009 at 04:10:15 AM EST
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We were not even able to reach the ET server when this was happening in Switzerland. No ping, no nothing. A traceroute indicated that two servers in Switzerland where at some point just balling the request between them. So, a faulty routing table or some such thing. If Luis is capable of seeing some of the site, this would not likely be the same problem.
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Jan 15th, 2009 at 04:53:29 AM EST
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