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Forum down? by whiz on 03-21-2010 at 12:04 PM
Has the forum been down? Since I haven't been able to get on it for the last few days...
RE: Forum down? by NanaFreak on 03-21-2010 at 12:11 PM
nope... been 100% working for a while now [=
RE: Forum down? by Chrissy on 03-21-2010 at 12:41 PM
Maybe your DNS/ISP?
RE: Forum down? by whiz on 03-21-2010 at 01:56 PM
Maybe, and it just went again. 
I've tried it on my Wii and DSi - they all go at the same time...
...which makes sense since they all use the same wireless router.
RE: Forum down? by Chrissy on 03-21-2010 at 02:13 PM
Try using Open DNS and see if the problem still happens.
RE: Forum down? by whiz on 03-21-2010 at 02:46 PM
Well, it's working at the moment. I'll have to wait and see...
RE: Forum down? by Chris4 on 03-21-2010 at 07:51 PM
It keeps going down for me too.
Thought it was just me.
RE: Forum down? by Th3rmal on 03-21-2010 at 07:56 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Chris4
It keeps going down for me too.
Thought it was just me.
RE: Forum down? by Chrissy on 03-21-2010 at 08:01 PM
It's perfectly fine here with me. Maybe I'm not on as much but, I don't notice a thing.
RE: Forum down? by blessedguy on 03-21-2010 at 08:48 PM
No problems here, too.
RE: Forum down? by Spunky on 03-21-2010 at 08:51 PM
Had problems here just too... Needed a couple of refreshes.
It happens quite a lot if I keep latest.php open...
RE: Forum down? by djdannyp on 03-21-2010 at 09:28 PM
Can't say I've noticed anything and I'm on pretty much all the time
RE: Forum down? by Nagamasa on 03-22-2010 at 02:00 AM
quote:But then a lot of sites do this to me every so often.
Originally posted by Th3rmal
quote:
Originally posted by Chris4
It keeps going down for me too.
Thought it was just me.
RE: Forum down? by wj on 03-22-2010 at 02:16 AM
code:
19:16:07 up 347 days, 23:27, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.30, 0.27
Looks fine to me.
RE: Forum down? by Chris4 on 03-22-2010 at 03:46 AM
Seems to be a selection of UK users..
RE: Forum down? by Th3rmal on 03-22-2010 at 05:48 AM
quote:I'm not from UK
Originally posted by Chris4
Seems to be a selection of UK users..
quote:This is the only site thats doing this for me
Originally posted by Nagamasa
But then a lot of sites do this to me every so often.
RE: Forum down? by Discrate on 03-22-2010 at 06:25 AM
The site was playing up before.
RE: Forum down? by whiz on 03-23-2010 at 03:51 PM
It's been down again! 
I've just managed to get on again...
I too only see this problem for this site only.
RE: Forum down? by wj on 03-23-2010 at 04:52 PM
No problems from what I could see. Probably a DNS issue, Next time it happens try using OpenDNS or 4.2.2.2 to see if you can resolve the server IP properly.
RE: Forum down? by andrey on 03-23-2010 at 04:58 PM
next time you can't reach the website, run
code:in the command prompt for some basic debugging.
ipconfig /flushdns
nslookup msghelp.net
tracert msghelp.net
if nslookup fails or tracert says something like "unable to resolve..", it's a dns issue - try using the msghelp.net ip directly (http://64.62.180.102/) or, as wj suggested, switching to OpenDNS
RE: Forum down? by Hank on 03-23-2010 at 09:37 PM
the forum has been fine for me, aint had a problem
RE: Forum down? by Chrissy on 03-24-2010 at 03:29 PM
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ 
RE: Forum down? by Chris4 on 05-01-2010 at 02:05 PM
Experiencing the problem again now.
quote:
Originally posted by andrey
next time you can't reach the website, run
code:in the command prompt for some basic debugging.
ipconfig /flushdns
nslookup msghelp.net
tracert msghelp.net
if nslookup fails or tracert says something like "unable to resolve..", it's a dns issue - try using the msghelp.net ip directly (http://64.62.180.102/) or, as wj suggested, switching to OpenDNS
http://64.62.180.102/ - Works fine.
ipconfig /flushdns - Successful.
nslookup msghelp.net - Can't find msghelp.net: Server failed.
tracert msghelp.net - Unable to resolve target system name msghelp.net.
...switching to OpenDNS fixed the problem.
RE: Forum down? by Chris4 on 08-04-2010 at 03:42 AM
On a related note, I'm unable to access http://www.msgpluslive.net/ at the moment.
Using a proxy, as well as trying both "is it down?" websites - confirms that website is working fine for others.
I've tried ipconfig /flushdns and /registerdns.
No problems with any other websites.
![[Image: FNDz0.png]](http://imgur.com/FNDz0.png)
Using OpenDNS or Google Public DNS does not resolve the issue.
Any ideas?
RE: Forum down? by wj on 08-04-2010 at 04:23 AM
"General Failure" in a ping usually means a problem with your machine, usually firewall related.
RE: Forum down? by kotjze on 08-04-2010 at 01:05 PM
Sometimes when I click my bookmark for here, Chrome tells me how it can't find the site or something like that. It either will say to try reloading the page or to view a cached copy, but then I just click the bookmark again and it works. I can remember it doing this since the end of last year, on different computers and connections
![[Image: szqkv.png]](http://i.imgur.com/szqkv.png)
RE: Forum down? by Chris4 on 08-05-2010 at 12:27 AM
quote:Found the problem - Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
Originally posted by wj
"General Failure" in a ping usually means a problem with your machine, usually firewall related.
With 'Website Blocking' turned on, it blocks access to msgpluslive.net
Just searched their forum and I see Nathalie has attempted to report it, without getting anywhere.
RE: Forum down? by djdannyp on 08-05-2010 at 06:10 AM
Wow, that guy has a serious vendetta.
Over an hour to install Messenger Plus! Live? What the hell is he trying to install it on? It takes 2 minutes tops
RE: Forum down? by Menthix on 08-05-2010 at 09:51 PM
quote:Update on that one: http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopi...=findpost&p=295857
Originally posted by Chris4
Just searched their forum and I see Nathalie has attempted to report it, without getting anywhere.
Looks like this guy also is responsible for eset nod32 blocked messenger plus 4.85. He said he shares his "details" with Eset... Eset told me an "independent tester(non ESET employee)" confirmed their findings... and both apps seem to have added signatures against Plus! along the same timeframe.
RE: Forum down? by Kafman on 08-05-2010 at 10:39 PM
So we can say that he's the moron behind that causes that ESET and Malwarebytes blocks Messenger Plus!...
Does someone has downloaded the huge 271MB, I mean, 271MB for a video of how to install Messenger Plus! with the sponsor it's a huge trolling for me... and reading his posts (and how he tried Nathalie) he's like some kind of troll engineer...
Well, fortunately, others antivirus companies are smart enough to make tests by themselfs... or at least they don't give a crap of what this guy says...
quote:What's worst is that he tries to excuse it by saying that the software he runs for making the video does that.
Originally posted by djdannyp
Over an hour to install Messenger Plus! Live? What the hell is he trying to install it on? It takes 2 minutes tops
And after saying that, he claims that every installation he has make about Plus! is slow... reading that tells me that he have a celeron 851 Mhz with 256 of RAM for testing purposes or his main pc it's a crap.
RE: Forum down? by Menthix on 08-05-2010 at 10:48 PM
quote:Can't get the video to play, tried MediaPlayer and VLC, but he's using a weird codec. Would like to see it though, probably hilarious
Originally posted by Kafman
Does someone has downloaded the huge 271MB, I mean, 271MB for a video of how to install Messenger Plus! with the sponsor it's a huge trolling for me.
.
RE: Forum down? by Lou on 08-05-2010 at 10:57 PM
quote:Considering everything he uses seems to be "well known", that's highly unlikely
Originally posted by Menthix
quote:Can't get the video to play, tried MediaPlayer and VLC, but he's using a weird codec. Would like to see it though, probably hilarious
Originally posted by Kafman
Does someone has downloaded the huge 271MB, I mean, 271MB for a video of how to install Messenger Plus! with the sponsor it's a huge trolling for me.
. He's obviously an idiot.
RE: Forum down? by Menthix on 08-05-2010 at 11:52 PM
Well known to be a massively outdated codec according to google
RE: Forum down? by Kafman on 08-06-2010 at 12:00 AM
quote:I was about to download it, but when my download transfer drop from 208 kb/s to 48 kb/s in 10 seconds... well, I'm not going to waste one hour and five minutes because of that shitty server where he uploaded that video: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6890152/lolwat.png
Originally posted by Menthix
Can't get the video to play, tried MediaPlayer and VLC, but he's using a weird codec. Would like to see it though, probably hilarious
And what's worst is that isn't playing... what a fail...
RE: Forum down? by Chrono on 08-06-2010 at 12:21 AM
Our theories of how he got such a big video file:
- He recorder 1 hour of video for no reason.
- He recorded the video with his webcam (hence why it has a weird codec, my webcam uses a weird codec 
).
- He recorded the video with Fraps + default configuration
- He has a resolution of 128000x102400 and recorded the full screen
Edited: funnily enough it was the first one (sort of): 3 hours of pointless video (when it should've taken 5 minutes tops lol ). Also a weird codec (Indeo, which is the same from my old webcam, lol)