ANNOUNCEMENT: Possible good news regarding our server

Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Some good news perhaps. John says he has found a problem with one of the servers and he's going to try to configure around it. But it'll take him a couple hours or more before he's ready to test it. Hang in there. Prayers up that it works!

[Doogle]

...eyep....gonna be a very busy place tomorrow night...here’s hoping it holds up..

[Bratch]

[deoetdoctrinae]

Hoping for the best my FRiend.

[FryingPan101]

Exciting news. Last night I couldn’t get on and trouble shooting provided the following: FreeRepublis is online but is not responding.

I know the bugs will work out.

[JDoutrider]

Thank God JR! Praying John can bribe the hampsters into pulling their load! Those aren’t union hampsters we got powering us up are they Jim?

[tomkat]

                                                       

[Fresh Wind]

[1_Rain_Drop]

finger crossed.

Thank you Jim & John!

[djf]

Something I have noticed and been testing today...

When you click on a link (to open or browse a thread), you will see the little circling thing with Firefox and see the
“Connecting...” message.

Now this may go on for a while. Sometimes, the link opens successfully, while other times, you get the “Failed to connect...” message in Firefox.

It seemed odd to me that I could try to open a new window/thread and it would hang, meanwhile, I could go back to the window with “Latest posts”, click refresh and it would come back almost immediately.

So I tried opening some new threads in new windows.

Many got hung up.

But IF... IF I went up to the address bar, and clicked it (so as to highlight the thread URL), and pressed enter, IT OPENED THE THREAD ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.

I have successfully used this technique almost twenty times and it has worked EVERY time.

SO!!

I think there might be what is generally called a “bracket error”.
That’s when a stream of data get sent out as a unit with START-END brackets, and t is the responsibility of the interpreting software to put it together.
Of course you can have nested brackets, serial bracket sequences, just about whatever.

I’ve seen these types of errors before. They are notoriously hard to diagnose, but once diagnosed, extremely easy to fix.

Just my 2 cents...

[oh8eleven]

John says he has found a problem with one of the servers and he's going to try to configure around it.
Uh oh, look out for that law of unintended consequences.

[Jane Long]

Great news! Fingers crossed ;)

My apologies if this is a multiple post :)

[Jim Robinson]

Yeah, I know. Performing meatball brain surgery on a conscience, kicking and screaming patient is risky.

[steve86]

Hope so but the system administrators need to consider what type of hardware monitoring can be put into place to detect this in the future. If a hardware component is failing or even suspect, the SA should be notified immediately. Ideally a automated failover would occur but a prompt manual changeover is better than none. In principle the same type of system health monitoring can be applied to the network and the database. As you probably know, that's the way we did it in the VAXen world decades ago!!!

[jmacusa]

My old Grandmother used to say “Anything mechanical just give it a good bash!’’Seriously Jim, good luck with the problem. My computer is going in and out here trying to post.

[no-to-illegals]

Laz, take a look at post #30, please.

[Lady Jag]

Please the hamster

[Red Badger]

Was it infected or hacked?........not that I’m suspicious of The Left, but I am......

[Joe 6-pack]

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[Jim Robinson]

I miss my VAX. But I don’t think it could handle this load.