Any trouble accessing MLU lately?

[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

[cliff]

For the first time ever I cannot assess MLU through the .org address. Been happening for the past 36 hours or so.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by cliff

For the first time ever I cannot assess MLU through the .org address. Been happening for the past 36 hours or so.

Cliff,

A DNS server problem they've just now managed to fix. I still don't know the details but will publish as/if they come to the forefront.

G.

[Stefano Ruggeri]

Geoff,
Afraid to say that getting on to the forum recently seems to be a bit difficult, and I've been having all sorts of problems with the search feature, most recently it told me it had no reference for the word "Fox" .
A massive thank you for your efforts: I don't know how you do it
Cheers,
Stefano

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Stefano Ruggeri

Geoff,
Afraid to say that getting on to the forum recently seems to be a bit difficult, and I've been having all sorts of problems with the search feature, most recently it told me it had no reference for the word "Fox" .
A massive thank you for your efforts: I don't know how you do it
Cheers,
Stefano

Stefano,

That is odd, and thanks for the heads-up; I'll check the search criteria in the Admin panel today.

[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

[Lynn Eades]

tried 4 or 5 times during the day yesterday and was not able to get in until last night. Been on a few times today, butonly successful about10 percent of the time. Pain in the proverbial....

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

tried 4 or 5 times during the day yesterday and was not able to get in until last night. Been on a few times today, butonly successful about10 percent of the time. Pain in the proverbial....

Lynn, I can only repeat, bookmark all of these links, and try them in order if one doesn't work!

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

http://mapleleafup.org/forums/

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

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

[Tony Smith]

While MLU has been it's cantankerous self as usual (sometimes get in direct, sometimes via Tortuga), I have had trouble opening thumbnail pics in the last couple of days, with the message coming up that there is a database problem, even on pics I have viewed previously. Anyone else having the same issues?

[Phil Waterman]

Tony - Yes there seems to be a problem that comes and goes sometimes I can open the thumb nails (and they open quick) and another time they will give me the data base error message.

The web is wonderful, when it works correctly but when it fails it sure is noticable.

Cheers Phil