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Weirdness happening everywhere today. Couldn't get into ET at all for a while, had some DNS errors and broadband drop outs, and the BBC news site is saying that it's been having technical problems too.

I suspect it's evil spirits, or weather, or both.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:13:27 AM EST
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Well, I get complaints from people every do often about not being able to get it, so I'm hoping this is the same problem they're having and now I have a chance to diagnose, maybe.

Or maybe it is the weather.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:18:18 AM EST
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Its got to be a server problem, if you look at eurotrib via nslookup on command line, then the dns record converts almost instantaneously. (Booman also downloads straight away, where eurotrib seems to be throwing a 9-12 second delay in serving pages back)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:21:50 AM EST
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But curl and lynx are responding immediately. Safari and Firefox aren't slow, they're not happening. My problem may not be the same as yours, of course.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:35:39 AM EST
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well its not so much slow, more theres a pause, which if its long enough, could be causing things to time out. I get a similar delay with IE8, the initial DNS connection and handshaking happen, then nothing. after that the page actually turns up 10-12 seconds later  (if our problems are actually similar)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:51:42 AM EST
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Corresponds to mine. Firefox gives me a "Waiting for eurotrib.com" message during the pause.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 12:04:42 PM EST
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For an hour or two before your comment I had 10-15 second pauses before ET came back on any command, e.g.: preview, post, click on a comment I wish to view on "My comments" etc.  Connection to ET was not so much a problem, or I didn't notice/wasn't bothered. I run XP and, as of this AM Firefox .17? (latest & greatest and it didn't even ask, just updated and informed.)

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 09:48:25 PM EST
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it didn't even ask, just updated and informed

Go to Tools->Options->Advanced->Updates and change the setting from Automatically update to Ask me what I want to do.

If you want to know the version number, Help->About Mozilla Firefox.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 01:56:05 AM EST
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It shows Firefox 3.0.17  "Firefox for Google Packs" ?!
I had Firefox 3.5.15? before and they used to ask.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Jan 7th, 2010 at 10:15:06 AM EST
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No problem whatsoever on this side of the Atlantic...

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne
by maracatu on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:36:34 AM EST
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Nor here, at the moment.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 11:39:39 AM EST
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here's fine, been out all afternoon though.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 02:46:20 PM EST
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