Forum Testing

[Dragaan]

Please excuse this post. I have been posting for years on a forum that uses SMF with the same patch as this forum, but I've been unable to or virtually unable to post there for some months. On a different pc through the same router I can get a few words posted before ti times out. However the time out occurs very quickly. So as I said, please excuse me posting here but I;ve been asked by the forum admin to check
Thanks
Dragaan

[Rik]

I suggested to Glenn that you try here, Dragaan, as we use the same software. If you can post here OK, and it looks like you can, we can swap notes on configuration to see if we can identify the problem. Welcome to Netters, feel free to hang around anyway.

[Simon]

I would suggest this to be a cookie issue, Dragaan.  Have you tried deleting the forum cookie from your machine, and allowing it to be reset?  You must have your browser set to allow the cookie to be permanently stored.

[Glenn]

Aaron has tried from different PC's, he has just tried posting over on my racing league forum, he could post a short message from IE7 but not from FF? No one else on the forum has had this issue, even with a new account the problem persists!

[Simon]

I can only imagine is something to do with the way the cookie is being handled.  Can we see which forum Aaron is having trouble with?

[Glenn]

www.wrracing.net

[Rik]

Do you want me to register and post?

[Glenn]

Sure, that's fine Rik

[Rik]

Awaiting your approval.

[Glenn]

All done 

[Simon]

You have been!  Or should that be, bean? 

[Rik]

Posted, no problems.

[Glenn]

I know it's a strange problem, I have asked Aaron to delete all cookies and temp internet files from within IE7 to see if that fixes it.

[Glenn]

One other thing I did, with the 2nd account I created, I tested it myself to see if I could post OK (which I could) before sending the details to Aaron. I also tried his own account without any problems too.

[Rik]

Odd. If it's not a cookie issue, could it be his firewall or AV setup? (Or is his router timing out?)

[Glenn]

A traceroute from Aaron

TraceRoute to 67.15.172.8 [www.wrracing.net]
Hop   (ms)   (ms)   (ms)      IP Address   Host name
1   16   6   6      72.249.0.65   -
2   8   10   6      8.9.232.73   xe-5-3-0.edge3.dallas1.level3.net
3   7   Timed out   19      4.68.19.6   ae-14-69.car4.dallas1.level3.net
4   42   12   7      4.71.122.2   the-planet.car4.dallas1.level3.net
5   17   11   11      70.87.253.54   et1-1.ibr02.hstntx1.theplanet.com
6   13   13   24      70.87.253.58   et1-3.ibr02.hstntx2.theplanet.com
7   28   15   22      74.55.252.210   po2.car12.hstntx2.theplanet.com
8   12   13   11      67.15.172.8   serv01.siteground122.com

Could that highlighted text be causing the problem?

[Rik]

It certainly could - his session may well time out at that point.

[Steve]

Would going via a proxy give him a different route?

[Glenn]

It might do, I'll ask him to give it a go.

[Glenn]

Do you know of any 'free' but safe to use proxy's

[Rik]

http://www.hidemyass.com/

[Steve]

Hidemyass works on idnetters

[Glenn]

It works on wrracing too 

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and help, I have emailed Aaron to see if the proxy works or not.

[Rik]

And on Glenn's forum... As he says.

[Glenn]

Well it seems like it's nothing to do with my forum or Aaron's connection, he can post via his mobile connected to his WLan, the only thing I can think of is a problem with both PC's that he uses.

[Ted]

Glenn, get him to download and burn to disc, a Linux live CD. Boot with that and then try to post on the forum, that should make it easy to see if its OS or hardware related.
Something like, Mandriva One or Puppy Linux should do the trick.

[Rik]

All I can think is firewall or AV settings, Glenn.