Any trouble accessing MLU lately?

That's a definate for me since last night through ALL access routes, off and on. I was going to post in this thread about it earlier when I got in, but I ended up giving up waiting for the damned page to load MINUTES still had not happened so I just left. Times I've got in since last night especially is extremely slow to load pages or I end up giving up.

I don't know what the problem is, nor how to fix it. Geoff is on occassionally in the day but is away from home until about Thursday and only has intermittant access until home again, but maybe he can agitate the server people or something to look into this and fix it or something

Sorry to all for the frustrations and wish I could fix it for us all!!!

fer cryin out loud ... I let the thing sit for 17 minutes after hitting "post" and it sat spinning saying "posting" ... argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I see it went in though but don't know how long AFTER I hit post that it registered ...................

and that last one I hit post at 6:30 my time and it entered immediately took me to the thread with it showing up!

[hrpearce]

Same problem here Just logged off because I was getting noware, logged straight back on and it is working fine been doing this on and off for a couple of weeks

[Lynn Eades]

I've been trying to get on the site for about an hour. Its been a problem for weeks. Usual stuff, wrong address, not connected, or site is down.
Anyhow, having read the troubles some of the other guys (and Karmen)are having, I think I'm quite lucky.

Yes. I'm quite cranky with the frequent non-workings of this place and want to toss my ... if ONLY I could lift and toss the darned things Too many problems and too often and for far too long is what I say. I NEVER have this much or frequent troubles in any other forums and I visit some very high traffic ones too. I imagine the contributors/supporters if having same problems to be very frustrated and irritated so I hope the server gets its crap together or else a new server IF that is what the problems are ....

(psssst ... I told ya I'm cranky and I meant it today )

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Hi all,

Unfortunately, it seems my email address is under attack right now. By extension, that means they're bombarding the server, which would account for the slowness. I'm going to have to remove all trace of my sunray address from the site, and replace it accordingly; in the meantime, use my corowa30 _at_ sympatico.ca address for coms and have patience while I shift attention away from the site. I know it's frustrating - I could cheerfully choke the life out of these bastards!

BTW, I'm in on all three addresses right now and it's not TOO slow... but it varies.

[gordon]

I think it was Wednesday that I last managed to get MLU to load.

Not a local thing, as all my other stuff loaded at the normal speed.

Gordon

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by gordon

I think it was Wednesday that I last managed to get MLU to load.

Not a local thing, as all my other stuff loaded at the normal speed.

Gordon

I can only repeat that I've seen very little of this, but HAVE seen it slow at times... don't forget, there are four ways of getting in. Bookmark all four below and try them in order if you have difficulty:

http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/

http://mapleleafup.org/forums/

http://tortuga.dnsrouter.com/~mlu/forums/

http://www.class-five.com/~mlu/forums/

Unless they're rebooting the server, at least one of these WILL work for you. The problem with the DNS error is that because there are SO many requests to resolve (thank you, hijackers ), it stalls out from time to time. On my SUNRAY account alone I have 28 mb of spam-related text messages sitting on the server right now. This address has to go.

[Clive_Dakers]

2 other military type forums I frequent have been targeted by hackers recently. One of them was showing symptoms similar to those affecting this one, the attacks were from from a some nutter advertising a certain religious fundamentalism leaning of a type most represented in the middle east. Doing a whois.com search of one of the websites he was advertising shows that he was in South Africa and his Server Hosting Admins were in Toronto.

Access and getting round in forum currently speedy and tickety-boo for me. Very nice when it happens

Geoff - I will continue to use the C-30 email for you until I hear otherwise

[Alex van de Wetering]

I have had trouble accessing our forum for some weeks now, through www.mapleleafup.org/forums/ . Usually I can access only during the afternoon and not in the morning. Now I am using the class-five link, which seems to work fine for me.

Alex