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Network Outage
Posted by Magnus on 7 July 2001, 14:56 GMT

As many of you probably noticed, ticalc.org was hit with a network outage friday evening. Due to the bad timing of this (being a late friday evening, and also the time when the only person who could really get to things to check what was wrong (me) was on a flight home from TechEd in Barcelona), the network outage lasted for 15-16 hours. It has now been fixed.

The problem was in the access router from Telia through which all the internet traffic goes.

 


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Re: Network Outage
Alex Quick  Account Info
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man there is bitchy people on here

     12 July 2001, 18:49 GMT

Re: Re: Network Outage
Alex Quick  Account Info
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speaking of which, why isnt there an official ticalc.org forum??

     12 July 2001, 18:53 GMT


Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

Instead of "is", wouldn't it be "are"?

     14 July 2001, 23:09 GMT

Re: Network Outage
mbuchman  Account Info

i never knew how off topic message boards could get. does anyone remember the news item anymore?(jk)

     13 July 2001, 04:44 GMT

Re: Re: Network Outage
Kylee Pwnz  Account Info

I was just going to say the exact same thing. And to everybody who thinks I didn't do it, I didn't do it for publicity. I could care less if you don't believe me....Actually, it's better off you not believing me. It just makes my day a lot better knowing there are total idiots running the internet, and so called "criminals" who are network and computer geniuses. I may have gone off the deep end by doing the DDoS attack, but it was for my own sake. I was kicked off of these forums a hell of a long time ago for swearing once, so I finally came to the conclusion of destroying their connection to the net for a day or two. Only lasted a day tho... So, yeah, if you want to know who this is admins...it's Akromix.. Yup, it's good old me. I remember coming to this site when it was first up. When there was those green buttons on the left and said Ticalc.org at the top frame. I remember the good old days when everything was a-o-k.. Well, time fo sleep now.

Good luck, and god speed. BTW...fix your damned router jeeves... IT's damned easy to drop connections if you ping it enough.

     13 July 2001, 08:45 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
GundamMan69  Account Info
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lol..i cant believe they havent tried to ban you yet.. good job man,if i was pissed id do that too, but you know whats really fun,hacking into mc donalds..i wont even start tellin some of the stories i have about that.

     13 July 2001, 14:09 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
lord_nightrose Account Info
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besides, it was really me since I'm such an <31337 h4xx0|2>...

You have no chance to survive make your time.

     13 July 2001, 16:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

weird al says cheeseburgers.

     18 July 2001, 23:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
lord_nightrose Account Info
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"Well, time fo sleep now."

FO! FO! FO!

     13 July 2001, 16:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
Kylee Pwnz  Account Info

Don't mock me..

Ha...I love the fact that the mods aren't even awake...

Just make my word clear. All is lost, but never forgotten. All is free, but life is inevitable. Live it, and breath the stank we call the world. Only then will you realize my point. My point is to not control anything, but to take control of those taking control of myself. Water falls in a ball, surface tension is a must. Lateralus..Good album.

     17 July 2001, 09:26 GMT


Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

I never looked at it :)

     14 July 2001, 23:10 GMT

Re: Network Outage
lord_nightrose Account Info
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Hey TICalc.org people, I know it's off-topic but I thought it would be very constructive...

Have you ever considered putting together a Perl script (or something to that effect) that automatically updated each author's page whenever it was visited? I find it a little strange sometimes to see myself ranked #53 for an entire day, only to come back an hour later and have 100 more downloads (without me knowing it was going on).

I just think it would be nice to have a real-time idea of how well we're doing on here.

Thanks!

     13 July 2001, 16:44 GMT

Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

Hey, I was thinking the same thing! Cool! The same with uploading of games. Shouldn't they just be uploaded, instead of having to wait about a day or two? The messages take 5 minutes, why don't the uploads? (How long to the screenshots take?!?!) Oh well, the site is nicely layed out.

     14 July 2001, 23:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
mbuchman  Account Info

i thought they checked the programs before they put them on the site

     15 July 2001, 05:00 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
lord_nightrose Account Info
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They do, but I think that's mainly checking for viruses, pornography, etc. etc. not really evaluating the quality or legality of the files. Obviously, some "illegal" stuff gets through (since technically all the Mario and Tetris games are copyright violations, but oh well).

     15 July 2001, 18:02 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
lord_nightrose Account Info
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Plus, if there's any good porn, they keep it for themselves :-)

     15 July 2001, 18:02 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

Oh, I didn't know that. That's why. :-)

     15 July 2001, 18:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

Okay, then, do they check the messages for viruses, or something? They obviously don't delete "bad" messages. So, why does the process take 5 mintues? (Even though, I swear sometimes it's much faster than 5 minutes.)

     15 July 2001, 18:44 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
mbuchman  Account Info

i think its kind of like email, when you mail someone, they dont instantly get it, it takes a minute or so. so its kind of like that, and depending how much traffic there is stealing bandwidth from the server depends how fast the message gets posted.(correct me if im wrong)

     15 July 2001, 19:37 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

Ok, thanks! :-)

     17 July 2001, 02:13 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Network Outage
lord_nightrose Account Info
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Actually, since this is a CGI script, the data is posted to a file on the servers as soon as you click the 'post' button (and the data transfers, of course). So it's not like e-mail at all.

     17 July 2001, 04:23 GMT


Re: Re: Network Outage
no_one_2000_  Account Info

I think you should e-mail them the suggestions. I don't think they actually look in the message boards too much.

     15 July 2001, 18:46 GMT

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