Forum Issue

[Craig_G]

Anyone else having trouble with the boards today? Very, very slow to open pages?

[Thearg]

Yes mine too,somethings up,no ads either.

Neil?

Edited May 29, 2014 by Thearg

[Trebor]

Yep. Seems a bit quicker on phone than computer, which is ridiculously slow.

[stuartbert two hats]

Fine for me - I'm a gold member BTW.

[H.M.V]

Yes me as well, on the phone at the moment. Gave up on the PC.

[neilloggie]

Bit slower for me as well.

[A Guy Called Matt]

Mine's fine. Gold member with slow rural Broadband

[Bexxxxx]

No issues at all for me - using a laptop.

[eFestivals]

there's been a cock-up with the ad-server which has now been fixed, but for anyone (except gold members) who accessed the site during that time, it's likely that they have the cock-up cached in their computer. It will resolve itself eventually.

(note: nothing of the cock-up is anything dangerous or concerning. The domain/DNS entry expired).

It might be that rebooting your PC *AND* your router sorts things out, tho it might not - I don't know enough of the finer details.

If you do nothing, it will resolve itself. At worst, this might take 48 hours (tho hopefully it'll be much quicker).

Edited May 29, 2014 by eFestivals

[Craig_G]

thanks

[Migraine]

To clear your DNS cache

Click on your windows start button

In the search box type

Cmd.exe

Press enter

You should get a black box open with a prompt, type

ipconfig /flushdns

Press enter

That's it, any cached DNS entries at your end will be cleared and provided that the new DNS entries have rolled out it should sort everything out for you.

[stardustjunkie]

My router gave up anyway so I've restarted my Macbook and the router already. Still not seeing ads, will clear my cache shortly.

[eFestivals]

thanks Migraine, tho that doesn't seem to have worked for my hoppo who is having this issue.

(I'm not experiencing it myself - tho perhaps that's because I don't think I accessed the site while the problem existed).

[stardustjunkie]

I'm still having trouble loading pages despite restarting etc. Hopefully it sorts itself out soon.

[al_coholic]

I have rebooted, cleared my cache and flushed DNS and its still the same if not worse.

It is hanging and I am guessing eventually timing out while waiting for a response from the address - delivery.simpletechnology.net which I am assuming is the ad server.

If it was a DNS issue it may take time for global replication which is why we are not resolving the address at the moment

[Pinhead]

Downstream public DNS servers may take a while to propagate the record change so experience will vary depending on who presents the public DNS server address to you (ISP, company etc). /flushdns might help some but not others depending on who their provider is and whether their public DNS has itself updated. That its taking a while suggests the original record had a rather long TTL.

[Migraine]

Downstream public DNS servers may take a while to propagate the record change so experience will vary depending on who presents the public DNS server address to you (ISP, company etc). /flushdns might help some but not others depending on who their provider is and whether their public DNS has itself updated. That its taking a while suggests the original record had a rather long TTL.

[ian the worm]

To clear your DNS cache

Click on your windows start button

In the search box type

Cmd.exe

Press enter

You should get a black box open with a prompt, type

ipconfig /flushdns

Press enter

That's it, any cached DNS entries at your end will be cleared and provided that the new DNS entries have rolled out it should sort everything out for you.

[A13]

Thought something was up with my connection..

[eFestivals]

But all better now I've done the above DMS magic.

for other people, I'll just point out that it only works if the DNS server your connection uses has been updated. I know of one Sky Broadband user who still can't get the missing DNS record(s) (so there's probably many more).

No magic trick can retrieve someone a record that doesn't exist. Some people will unfortunately just have to be patient until their DNS updates.

[stuartbert two hats]

There's always the hosts file, for techies anyway!

[H.M.V]

I don't think I understood a single post in this thread other than the forum being slow (like me)

Seems to be working better at home.

[Crazyfool01]

please explain slowly .... what to do on a mac, slightly confused by the explanations so far !!!

[salvador wali]

please explain slowly .... what to do on a mac, slightly confused by the explanations so far !!!

[eFestivals]

It's very likely that by 9am today almost no people will be effected by the issue.

My apologies for what has happened, it's been outside of my control.