Is anyone else having problems connecting to the MPL website, I’ve been trying on and off for the last couple of hours with both IE and FF and both are saying that they cannot find the server???

Is it just me?

I am able to access any other site I have tried, hmmmmmmm…

I'm having the same problem, can't connect to the IRC channel either.

It is down since today morning for me.

Even for Sam: http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=84...d=911116#pid911116

for irc:

/server artifact.psychedelic.net

This might be the problem: http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185

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This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost.

We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

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Originally posted by http://service-update.theplanet.com/
Our network operations team is currently working on the ev1servers.net nameservers to ensure that they are online, are routed to correctly, and propogate as quickly as possible.

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I read that post on ThePlanet forums a few hours ago but I didn't know msgpluslive.net was hosted by them.

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Originally posted by Felu
I read that post on ThePlanet forums a few hours ago but I didn't know msgpluslive.net was hosted by them.

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Spanish forums down for this same reason, in case a spanish folk happens to read this

lolpwned.

mess.be is also down for the time being, and so are my mails @msgpluslive.net

Can't send sounds in conversation either

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Originally posted by mynetx
mess.be is also down for the time being, and so are my mails @msgpluslive.net

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also, (!IP) doesn't work.
most probably uses the msgpluslive.net server.

suggestion: try whatismyip.org
workaround: download

@roflmao456:
It is calling http://software.msgpluslive.net/getip.php, which is normally replying with the IP of the caller (<?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>). As the DNS servers of msgpluslive.net are still down, that will fail and result in a timeout.

Info: The server of msgpluslive.net is running, but it is not serving the correct website. You can test this by not using the DNS server, but adding this line to your C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts:
75.125.133.82 www.msgpluslive.net

Then call the URL in your browser and you will get a website with title "Messenger Plus! has moved" and a meta refresh to patchou.com.

It's back

The IP of the Messenger Plus! website and other services on the server has now changed from 75.125.133.82 to 72.51.11.32.