Can't browse boards

Berger · 01-05-2005 6:47pm #1

It times-out. I have to use another ISP or a proxy (like Im using now).

Am I banned or something?

XP SP1, Firefox 1.0.3.

billy the squid · 01-05-2005 6:54pm

They were moving the servers around during the weekend, this has caused problems for everyone, it (according to the admins) should sort itself out

if your having problems with www.boards.ie, you can always try muppet.boards.ie that might help.

EDIT you might want to try this also http://82.195.136.36

Vexorg · 01-05-2005 6:58pm

Yup would appear to be due to the server move, appears to be a few things not working up to their usual high standard, will be fixed asap...

Sorry for the inconvenience....

V.

Lexmark.Printer · 01-05-2005 10:45pm

The problem has nothing to do with boards.ie as he can load up boards.ie by switching to another ISP.

Next time do a trace route to boards.ie using both ISP's and you should be able to see where the problem is, then email your test to NTL

regi · 02-05-2005 10:58am

Yup would appear to be due to the server move, appears to be a few things not working up to their usual high standard, will be fixed asap...

Since I'm not able to refresh your ISP's DNS cache, you'll have to wait for DNS propagation to finish.

Creamy Goodness · 02-05-2005 12:04pm

yup this is happening to me on IOL anytime

02-05-2005 12:44pm

I couldnt access boards for a time using a wannado home broadband connection in France over the weekend .
All other irish sites worked.
In the end it just started working but only with opera and not ie which was strange.
It didnt work with opera for a while there either.

Berger · 02-05-2005 1:10pm

Just to let you know it's still happening to me and Im using Esat NoLimits.

Redshift · 02-05-2005 1:38pm

Esat's DNS now points to 82.195.136.36 for boards as do all the major irish DNS servers.
You must be picking up stale DNS info form somewhere try flushing your Browser. I take it that you are not running your own DNS server...

Berger · 02-05-2005 3:07pm

It doesn't work when I use IE either.

Here's a tracert:

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.144.58]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms ts004.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.226]
2 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms vlan101.rt001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.141.1]
3 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms ge0-0.core001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.140.1]
4 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms pos3-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.131.41]
5 30 ms 30 ms 29 ms ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.18]
6 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
7 38 ms 38 ms 38 ms suez-inex.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.23]
8 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 82.195.128.4
9 82.195.128.4 reports: Destination host unreachable.

Trace complete.

Berger · 02-05-2005 3:10pm

Oh it works whenever I use http://82.195.136.36

galwaydude18 · 02-05-2005 6:18pm

Ya I have the same problem as Berger! Cant access using www.boards.ie but I can access it using http://82.195.136.36 Also most of the images wont display either!

seamus · 02-05-2005 6:59pm

Try open a command line and type
ipconfig /flushdns

Then try again.

galwaydude18 · 02-05-2005 7:04pm

seamus that doesn't work! Just tried it there and it made no difference...

regi · 02-05-2005 7:38pm

It'll just pass. If you have stale DNS, we can't really do that much to help.

galwaydude18 · 02-05-2005 7:41pm

well it was working perfect for me in work yesterday until about 3 in the afternoon then I could not access boards so it's not just my pc! It must be something at your end...

cgf · 02-05-2005 7:50pm

I've had grief over the weekend as well - minimal access on Sat, 50-50 y'day and nearly back to normal today.

Am on NTL.

seamus · 02-05-2005 7:50pm

The IP address of the machine was changed, and a redirect was in place, which was then removed.

The entire process should be transparent to you, as DNS should look after the change for you. Obviously your DNS cache is stale (like having an out-of-date map) so your machine is looking in the wrong place for www.boards.ie

Go to a command line and run
nslookup www.boards.ie
paste the result up here.

galwaydude18 · 02-05-2005 7:53pm

Right heres what I get when I do that

c:\Profiles\Administrator>nslookup www.boards.ie
Server: ns.esatclear.ie
Address: 194.145.128.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.boards.ie
Address: 82.195.144.58

Any ideas on this?

seamus · 02-05-2005 8:01pm

I'm getting the exact same thing. ns.esatclear.ie is usuing stale information.

You'll need to hard set your primary DNS server for a while until the server updates. I'm not sure what OS you're using, but on XP, go into Start > Settings > Network Connections.
Right-click on your connection, whatever it is, and go to properties. Click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click properties. Click the Use the following DNS sever addresses radio button, and in the Preferred Server field, put in 192.111.39.1

Go into the command line, type ipconfig /flushdns and then try to access www.boards.ie again.

Berger · 02-05-2005 8:12pm

Working fine for me now after changing the DNS. Thanks Seamus.

Ciaran500 · 02-05-2005 8:27pm

Everything seems to have sorted it self out in the last hour or so.

(on IBB BTW)

galwaydude18 · 02-05-2005 8:40pm

Seamus that has sorted it out! When will this issue be resolved correctly?

seamus · 02-05-2005 9:11pm

Whenever Esat's server sorts itself out. Totally out of boards.ie's control.

po0k · 02-05-2005 10:07pm

Basic Telecomms & Communications should be on the Junior Cert.

Creamy Goodness · 03-05-2005 4:34pm

seamus wrote:

I'm getting the exact same thing. ns.esatclear.ie is usuing stale information.

You'll need to hard set your primary DNS server for a while until the server updates. I'm not sure what OS you're using, but on XP, go into Start > Settings > Network Connections.
Right-click on your connection, whatever it is, and go to properties. Click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click properties. Click the Use the following DNS sever addresses radio button, and in the Preferred Server field, put in 192.111.39.1

Go into the command line, type ipconfig /flushdns and then try to access www.boards.ie again.

thanks seamus you helpped me out of a pickle there,

i'd give you lots of rep if it was around

parasite · 04-05-2005 1:18pm

esat dns servers still stale ...
you can just add :
82.195.136.36 www.boards.ie
to your hosts file

Snowbat · 09-05-2005 10:47pm

Still stale, and if I understand what's going on here, this is not a DNS propagation delay and it will remain b0rked until Esat fix it. The TTL currently showing for www.boards.ie on auth01.ns.esat.net is 86400 (1 day) so this should have picked up the new ip address within 1 day of the move. However, for some reason known only to Esat, auth01.ns.esat.net thinks it is an authoritative nameserver for boards.ie and is therefore not delegating to the real authoritative nameserver ns1.hosting365.ie and not refreshing. Any nameservers that use auth01 such as ns.esatclear.ie are also affected. I'll send the details on to the Esat hostmaster and see what happens.

$ dig @auth01.ns.esat.net www.boards.ie

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @auth01.ns.esat.net www.boards.ie
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23818
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.boards.ie. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.boards.ie. 86400 IN A 82.195.144.58

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
boards.ie. 86400 IN NS auth01.ns.esat.net.
boards.ie. 86400 IN NS sec01.ns.esat.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
sec01.ns.esat.net. 54491 IN A 192.111.39.111
sec01.ns.esat.net. 54491 IN AAAA 2001:7c8:2:a::3

;; Query time: 287 msec
;; SERVER: 192.111.39.101#53(auth01.ns.esat.net)
;; WHEN: Mon May 9 17:50:04 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 143

Ronin · 09-05-2005 11:39pm

This has now been fixed

.

Ro.

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