Life In 19x19

For many days now I have had inordinate problems getting access to L19 on different machines, operating systems and browsers.

As far as I can establish, the problem is with looking up the site on the DNS server. Almost as confirmation of this, if I go to google and call up the site from the search results I can on straightaway. I'm assuming google doesn't use DNS names but stores the web site number (I don't what they are really called but they look something like 22.5.98.45).

So my main question is: how do I get hold of this number myself (and can I store it in Favourites)?

Subsidiary questions are: what the dickens is going on, and is anyone else having this problem?

Incidentally, even when I do get in things seem to settle but it can be flaky. I've already lost one post (which I'll never bother to try to repeat) because the system went walkabout when I pressed Submit. This has happened often enough before that I know I have to save long posts periodically as I compose them, but it still seems a bit antediluvian in internet terms to have to do that. Is there a better remedy?

A further question, possibly a quite separate topic but I have no way of knowing: there are times when my preference to stay logged on (i.e. not having to re-enter a password) is ignored, and repeatedly. In the past this has cleared itself, but it has just started again.

What I find odd about it is that it will come up on one machine, say the Windows one, with a message asking me to sign in, but I ignore it as and I can't be bothered to faff around. A little later, I might try again on a different machine, say Mac, and I go straight in! Or vice versa - it's not a Windows/Mac issue, I think.

I've been having no problems with the site recently and I do visit regularly.

As for the logging in thing, that happens to me periodically on various sites and seems to come and go without reason. Perhaps it's some kind of internet forum seasonal disaffective disorder.

As I wrote in another thread, I've had several (>3 per day, for the last 7-8 days) cases of "server not found" issues with my iPad Air (I browse the forum far more often from Mobile Safari than from my laptop, so I can't rule out problems in it). From what John has been digging and my own personal evidence, maybe *it* is a DNS problem: I have Google's DNS in my laptop, but my ISPs on my iPad (I have just fixed this, though, as a double check).

I've also been experiencing delays recently.

Me too. Seems like DNS problems indeed.

@John: That number is called the IP address* and you can find it out by opening a command window/terminal and typing "ping lifein19x19.com" then enter. That will send a ping message out to the server and report the reply time, and at the top give the IP address:



I tried to access the forum with the IP address rather than host name by putting

50.62.100.1/forum/index.php

in my address bar but I got a strange "pageok" response from the server, not sure what's up there yet.

* version 4, and we are running out of them. There is a new version 6 which looks like 2001:0db8:85a3:0042:1000:8a2e:0370:7334 .

I have had trouble as well. Sometimes it was just slow, sometimes it was DNS error. Pretty much every day in the past week or so. Had to try multiple times before the site loads, and then often the pages load really slow.

John Fairbairn wrote:
Subsidiary questions are: what the dickens is going on, and is anyone else having this problem?

We wouldn't be having the same problem at the same time because it is extremely unlikely that the DNS's on the network where you connect to the internet are the same ones on the network by which we connect to the internet.

I'd check with your provider. They might have alternate name servers you could specify rather than the ones that are busiest << "not found" if the name entered was correct usually means that the DNS was busy and didn't respond before the request for translation from http to ip timed out. You don't get a different error message for these two rather different situations, at least I don't >>

Mike Novack wrote:

John Fairbairn wrote:
Subsidiary questions are: what the dickens is going on, and is anyone else having this problem?

We wouldn't be having the same problem at the same time because it is extremely unlikely that the DNS's on the network where you connect to the internet are the same ones on the network by which we connect to the internet.

I'd check with your provider. They might have alternate name servers you could specify rather than the ones that are busiest << "not found" if the name entered was correct usually means that the DNS was busy and didn't respond before the request for translation from http to ip timed out. You don't get a different error message for these two rather different situations, at least I don't >>

John is in the UK. I'm in Spain. I don't know where Bantari and Uberdude are, but we probably are not using the same DNSs. Maybe there's a misconfiguration in the domain provider for L19, with a bad time to live in its own nameservers?

I have experienced this 'server not found' problem from Japan as well.

RBerenguel wrote:
John is in the UK. I'm in Spain. I don't know where Bantari and Uberdude are...

Uberdude is in the UK too, I think.
Bantari is Southern California, USA. So am I.

I'm on at least once a day, sometimes ten times a day if the spammers are persistent. I've had no problems for months.

Joaz Banbeck wrote:

RBerenguel wrote:
John is in the UK. I'm in Spain. [..]

Uberdude is in the UK too, I think.
Bantari is Southern California, USA. So am I.

I'm on at least once a day, sometimes ten times a day if the spammers are persistent. I've had no problems for months.

I’m in Germany, and I guess sometimes I’m on about 16 hrs/day i.e. I have the tab “unread posts” open ALL THE TIME, and sometimes I reload several times per hour, sometimes every ten minutes if I don’t have anything better to do.

And in case you’re wondering, I have EIGHT such tabs, all pinned, that I all reload with one click (using the Tabs Reloader plugin for Chrome which allows me to reload only pinned tabs, so my dozens of other tabs stay “old” ).

While some time ago I had LOTS of disconnections, I haven’t had them with L19 in the past two or three weeks. But I noticed that today I couldn’t reach Wikipedia for some time …

Greetz, Tom

Happens to me too. Doesn't feel so bad when you are just reading L19 but when you are trying to reply to a thread and it doesn't connect when you submit, that's really annoying.

RBerenguel wrote:

Mike Novack wrote:

John Fairbairn wrote:
Subsidiary questions are: what the dickens is going on, and is anyone else having this problem?

We wouldn't be having the same problem at the same time because it is extremely unlikely that the DNS's on the network where you connect to the internet are the same ones on the network by which we connect to the internet.

I'd check with your provider. They might have alternate name servers you could specify rather than the ones that are busiest << "not found" if the name entered was correct usually means that the DNS was busy and didn't respond before the request for translation from http to ip timed out. You don't get a different error message for these two rather different situations, at least I don't >>

John is in the UK. I'm in Spain. I don't know where Bantari and Uberdude are, but we probably are not using the same DNSs. Maybe there's a misconfiguration in the domain provider for L19, with a bad time to live in its own nameservers?

San Diego, California, US.
Was about to say the same thing.

Hello,
Same for me, I experience some kind of DNS problem from switzerland.
It's seems to happend more from my iphone...

I had the same problem recently.
You can fix it by adding this line to your hosts file on whatever device you are accessing the website from.


Example Instructions: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27350/be ... osts-file/

Also, if your i-devices are jail-broken then you can do the same. This would be done by accessing /etc/hosts with a program like iFile for example.

This is kind of a band-aid solution but I hope it helps someone none the less.