Why have i not been able to get on this afternoon?

[MR LR]

Hi All

Haven't been able to get onto AULRO all day today (on any of our computers at home and school), then just hit it now and it came up.

Not sure whats going on.

Anyone got the same issue???

Cheers
Will

[isuzutoo-eh]

You were naughty. Very naughty.

[p38arover]

Domain Name Server failure.

[101RRS]

I had no issues but did notice the post rate on the forum was very low - later another member emailed me to indicate he could not get on.

I guess it is just AULRO's way of keeping the riff raff off the forum.

Anyway Junior - you should not be surfing AULRO when you are at school.

Garry

[MR LR]

Anyway Junior - you should not be surfing AULRO when you are at school.

Garry

Exactly!!!!

Thanks all, just curious thats all

Cheers
Will :)

[superquag]

... and I thought it was my malware-mugged and virii'd vanquished computer doing it.... :o

I still get the connection failure, but ignoring it and doing a 'refresh' (double circular arrows?) lights up AULRO.

Beware of Conduit Engine and all its "Works and Pomps".:twisted:

[mikehzz]

Dave, I don't know if this is your problem or mine but aulro.com is not resolving in dns from either my work or my home. It's ok from my phone. All are with Telstra but the phone is probably using different name servers. Cheers

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[mikehzz]

By the way, aulro.com is the only site I am having trouble with. I can get all the others I want.

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[incisor]

and your on bigpond?

it should come up looking like

Dave-Blearss-Mac-Pro:~ dave$ nslookup aulro.com
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: aulro.com
Address: 202.182.124.182


some bigpond customers are still seeing issues after yeserdays dns server death but all have been moved over to another pair of servers.

[alien]

We are with Bigpond and did have issues but look like Inc. was onto it:)
What I have noticed is when going to the previous page after veiwing a thread there are from 1 to pages of double add clic pages listed:(

[jazzaD1]

it has been 'dropping out' for me last night and occasionally today also, i'm with TPG

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Sorry Dave,, but I didnt even notice there was a problem,, ( iprimus):angel::angel:

[goingbush]

AULRO was also down for me most of yesterday
I'm on bigpong , but I could get on through a proxy server.

next time its down (or anywebsite) try this IsUp.Me -> Check if your website is down or up? (http://www.isup.me/)

[chunk]

I'm with Optus and have been having log on issues the last couple of days.

[The ho har's]

We are back on, obviously:p, though when I try to look at some threads I get the MSG, cannot find server, series IIa & IIb Forward Controls for example:(

Bigpond Inc;)

[MR LR]

Yep same thing today :( beginning to think bigpond is overrated LOL, soo many problems

[Disco4SE]

Hi all,
Just wondering why I can't access this site via my home wireless network, yet I can via my mobile phone (which I am doing now).

Has anyone else experienced this?
Only happened since yesterday.

Cheers, Craig

[alien]

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/153147-why-have-i-not-been-able-get-afternoon.html :o


Edit.
Linked to this thread but one of the efficient moderators moved it across.
Theres the quick and then there is the moderator team:)

[SBD4]

I'm still having issues - I'm with beagle(telstra)

Got tired of waiting for the DNS issues to be sorted so ended up editing my hosts file to over come the issue.

For those who want to and don't know how do the following on windows:

1. open Notepad
2. browse to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
3. open the "hosts" file (select "all files" as the file type as the file is not a text file)
4. Add the following line: 202.182.124.182 www.aulro.com
5. save and close

If you are running Vista or Windows 7 you will need to run Notepad with administrator privileges. To do this, instead of clicking the Notepad entry, right click it and select "run as administrator".

You will want to remove this once the DNS issues are sorted out.

[disco gazza]

Didnt have any issues at all. :D :p
Tho I'm with Westnet.

cheers

[p38arover]

1. open Notepad
2. browse to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
3. open the "hosts" file (select "all files" as the file type as the file is not a text file)
4. Add the following line: 202.182.124.182 www.aulro.com
5. save and close

Win XP's Notepad won't save it without the .txt extension. One can't delete the old one thus allowing one to rename the new one (to removed the .txt).

[SBD4]

Win XP's Notepad won't save it without the .txt extension. One can't delete the old one thus allowing one to rename the new one (to removed the .txt).

try browsing to the file using windows explorer. open it from there, make the change and save. It should work that way.

[incisor]

and the only way they will see this is if their dns is working again :p

[MR LR]

Exactly, it's funny, mine works at night???????

Gotta love technology, and people complain about Land Rovers...

Cheers
Will

[SBD4]

and the only way they will see this is if their dns is working again :p


yeah I know Dave - it seems some have intermittent issues in which case they will. Also those that can see it can tell those that can't if they are in touch in other ways. More info can only be good right? :)

I'll post it on the Overlander forum - maybe they'll see it there.

[p38arover]

try browsing to the file using windows explorer. open it from there, make the change and save. It should work that way.

Yeah, that's what I had done. I've now used jEdit as that allows saves without the file extension. However, my anti-virus wouldn't allow changes to hosts files. I had to temporarily change that security setting in my AV program.

Thanks for that suggested hosts file change. I couldn't get on again this morning until after I'd made the change. Fortunately, I'd copied the change you showed last night and it was still in the clipboard this morning when I did a paste.

[DeanoH]

and the only way they will see this is if their dns is working again :p

Haven't been able to get on since Thursday, if I'd known the IP I could have got on but, hey, I just figured Inc. had forgotten to pay the bill :D.

If primary DNS failure was the problem what happened to the secondary DNS ? didn't AULRO exist in its look up ? :confused:

Deano.:)

[incisor]

Haven't been able to get on since Thursday, if I'd known the IP I could have got on but, hey, I just figured Inc. had forgotten to pay the bill :D.

If primary DNS failure was the problem what happened to the secondary DNS ? didn't AULRO exist in its look up ? :confused:

Deano.:)

it would appear

telstra in their infinite wisdom have it set that if a few packets fail we will just drop that ip for a while

only way i can explain some being able to get on (secondary dns working) and those on telstra based bandwidth having major issues.

some second tier telsra based services are still going nowhere so those second tier providers are cacheing dns to save bandwith and still have the poisoned dns in cache.

only way i can explain what i have seen....

[MR LR]

So what's going to happen about it???

Cheers
Will

[incisor]

So what's going to happen about it???

Cheers
Will

Sfa i would imagine

[SBD4]

Yeah, that's what I had done. I've now used jEdit as that allows saves without the file extension. However, my anti-virus wouldn't allow changes to hosts files. I had to temporarily change that security setting in my AV program.

Thanks for that suggested hosts file change. I couldn't get on again this morning until after I'd made the change. Fortunately, I'd copied the change you showed last night and it was still in the clipboard this morning when I did a paste.

No worries Ron, hope it did the trick.

[MR LR]

Sfa i would imagine
hehehe good answer Dave ;)

Ohwell i'll just live with it, didn't happen today maybe it's gone away.

Cheers
Will :)

[bee utey]

I've done absolutely nothing other than find something else to do while AULRO was unavailable. Worked a treat, it's back, just like that! Yeh, I'm with bigpuddle, too.:cool:

[JDNSW]

it would appear

telstra in their infinite wisdom have it set that if a few packets fail we will just drop that ip for a while

only way i can explain some being able to get on (secondary dns working) and those on telstra based bandwidth having major issues.

some second tier telsra based services are still going nowhere so those second tier providers are cacheing dns to save bandwith and still have the poisoned dns in cache.

only way i can explain what i have seen....

Not a problem with their secret DNS poisoning list supposedly used to prevent access to child porn?

John

[p38arover]

There's child porn on AULRO? :eek: Must be in the Mods area. Oh, wait. I am a Mod.

[JDNSW]

There's child porn on AULRO? :eek: Must be in the Mods area. Oh, wait. I am a Mod.

As you well know, given a secret list, it could have anything on it! Or they could simply have managed to screw up the implementation, perhaps more likely.

John

[Davo]

I've done absolutely nothing other than find something else to do while AULRO was unavailable. Worked a treat, it's back, just like that! Yeh, I'm with bigpuddle, too.:cool:

Same here. Though I got some awful withdrawal symptoms and started arguments with the wife about which tyre size is best and what the current Defender should be replaced with! I felt better after that . . .