Sites not working

[Conrad]

I am finding a whole bunch of websites are not working. Example:

Pinging www.tomatoesareevil.com [81.88.57.71] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 81.88.57.71:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Is there still "upgrade" work going on?

[Rik]

No, and it's working fine for me. What happens when you do a tracert to the site?

[Steve]

Fine for me on IDNet DNS and OpenDNS.

[Conrad]

They're working again now  

The last couple of days have felt like I'm back on Plusnet  

[Bill]

I've just had ten minutes when websites wouldn't work, but seems OK now

[Steve]

Sounds like work is still under way somewhere,probably about time for LINX to play up

[Bill]

It was weird... most (but not all) websites wouldn't load, and my RSS feeds failed.

Everything else was still working

[Rik]

I've just had ten minutes when websites wouldn't work, but seems OK now

Anything specific, Bill?

[Rik]

I've checked with support and they're not seeing any issues today, so if anyone does have problems, could they run both a traceroute and path ping to the sites.

[Bill]

The tbb sites weren't working (except the BQM), most IDNet ones seemed OK (except webmail), they're the only ones I can remember.

Restarting the browser didn't help so I rebooted the iMac (in case it was my end), by the time it was back up everything was working again!

[Rik]

Odd, Bill, because I was on TB at the time. 

[Steve]

In the last few weeks I've had the odd occasion on the iMac where ping times have been high, I don't know the cause but my only cure has been a reboot.

[Bill]

In the last few weeks I've had the odd occasion on the iMac where ping times have been high, I don't know the cause but my only cure has been a reboot.

Haven't seen that... occasionally I find that a frequently used site (eg the tbb forums or this one) goes VERY sluggish, but I'm pretty sure that's an Opera problem- closing the tab and opening a new one on the same url cures it.

[Rik]

This forum going sluggish is often the server, Bill, we share it with 2 or 3 others.

[Bill]

I mean really sluggish... like over a minute to load

And not intermittently- once it goes that way, it stays like it.

[Glenn]

If the server is slow, try browsing to Orange bikes, if that is slow too, then it's the server.

[Rik]

OB often run processes which hog the server, Bill. The other time you'll see a slowdown is when the daily backup kicks in. The very long hang can often be cured by hitting stop then refresh (or link).

[Bill]

Cheers, I'll give that a try next time.

I suppose I got so used to it happening on tbb that I just used the same cure

[Glenn]

One backup runs at 6am everyday. When it starts, I get a 500 error trying to access the forum, normally it's OK within a couple of minutes.

[Bill]

One backup runs at 6am

If I'm online at 6am it was a very late night

[Rik]

 

It was really quiet in here, Bill, you could have stayed asleep. 

[Gary]

I'm having a few issues with some American sites right now, UPS being one of them, in fact there is quite a few not responding right now

[Rik]

Server not found (ups.com)?

[Gary]

Server not found (ups.com)?

yep, mobog.com doing the same and myspace.com

[Rik]

And PC-Pals. On the phone...