Hey guys,

The last couple of nights I haven't been able to reach the site from home. When I do a traceroute the hops get as far as Florida, then stop responding. I'm wondering if the site's been down, or am I the only one that's been having trouble.

Generally, I've been trying to reach the site from between 7 and 11 PM EST.

OH NO! WHATEVER IT IS THAT KEEPS DAVE IN FLORIDA IS KEEPING THE REST OF US OUT!

No issue here.

Yeah, I've had no real issues here either ...

I still can't get here from home.

I'll do a traceroute tonight and uh... Post the results on Monday I guess.

I cant get here directly tonight. First time it's been blocked this long in awhile.

I make it to hostdime's edge though.

Hmmmm, I've had ZERO problems, however, I'll email support and see if there's something amiss ...

It would be helpful if I had that traceroute for you.

also recommend using http://network-tools.com/ or http://www.yougetsignal.com/ for a second/third source, to see if they detect the same problem when you see the site as "down".

Using the first of the online tools you posted...I get the same as who.is's traceroute...which dumps me at the edge.....but this one then goes on to the site. Still cant load any sites from that server though.

1   24   17   14      72.249.128.105    -
2   20   21   26      8.9.232.73   xe-5-3-0.edge3.dallas1.level3.net
3   21   33   16      4.69.145.52   ae-63-60.ebr3.dallas1.level3.net
4   36   61   45      4.69.134.22   ae-7.ebr3.atlanta2.level3.net
5   37   37   33      4.69.138.18   ae-71-70.ebr1.atlanta2.level3.net
6   37   37   43      4.69.137.149   ae-1-8.bar1.orlando1.level3.net
7   55   217   63      4.69.133.77   ae-6-6.car1.orlando1.level3.net
8   38   37   41      4.79.116.26   dimenoc-edge1.hostdime.com
9   Timed out   Timed out   Timed out         -
10   42   37   36      66.7.199.212   south.host-care.com

At around 2:15 PM CST, I was unable to get to LG.

After some research, it looks like the name servers from host-care.com (ns1 & ns2) were generating internal errors.  This can sometimes be caused by high traffic through the name servers.

So, it sounds like our outages are because host-care.com is getting a lot of traffic.  DoS/DDoS against other sites on HC are likely candidates, given that HC only seems to support about 40K domains.

Well, in my case, I haven't been able to get to LG from home for four days now. My problem may lie elsewhere.

or....

hostdime had a huge router issue a few days ago...found it in their statis section...

so maybe both ? buggered if I know.

i still cant here right now. ( just an update. )

How are you guys posting?

Yeah, I've had no real issues here either ...

How are you guys posting?

I'm posting because by 4:00 pm, whatever happened at 2:15 pm had finished.

No, I meant "Daddy DopeDong" ...

No, I meant "Daddy DopeDong" ...

So, when you said "guys", you were talking about him...  and his dick.

Back to normal. Knock on (_)_)===D

*sigh*

I don't get this sigh thing. It's bugged me for a while. It's clearly too emo to be Thrash. The only thing I can think is that someone's hacking his posts. And if I had to make guesses, I'd go with the script-kiddie that broke ThrashInc.

i used to do it a lot ~ <sigh> ~ but i always put it in the arrowheads.  Also, i couldn't "hack" my way out of a fire with the Provided Axe.

No, I mean there could be some times when a sigh is appropriate. For instance if someone is just completely and repeatedly missing the point and you suspect they know they're wrong but are just trying to make some absurd point. But otherwise it just comes of as strangely emotional. We're all just fucking around here. There should be no reason to sigh except in desperation. I dunno. Maybe I read too much into it.

* FAH-Q sighs

*double sigh*

* underclass farts

<double fart>

* Thrash triple sighs at Si's sighing at doormouse not getting my sighing

Man, if i have to Triple Fart






i'm going to the Bathroom!