MSFN.org state

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:01 pm

Uh .... Guys? ..... Is it happening again?

i430vx · Post by **i430vx** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:54 pm

Unfortunately, I'd say SOMETHING isn't working quite right. Let's hope it's nothing like last time.

i430vx · Post by **i430vx** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:02 pm

It's back up... for now...

roytam1 · Post by **roytam1** » Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:40 pm

i430vx wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:02 pm
It's back up... for now...

and now it is hitting connectivity issue again.

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Wed Jul 04, 2018 5:19 pm

The MSFN news pages are still working, although there is nothing there that's less than nearly a year old, the forum pages never connect.

bphlpt · Post by **bphlpt** » Wed Jul 04, 2018 11:50 pm

The forum is "working", but ever since the latest "incident" the forum response time has been terrible. Over the last day or so it is more likely to time out than respond correctly.

Cheers and Regards

bphlpt · Post by **bphlpt** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 5:45 am

And now it seems to be down again? Or not. LOL Response time is so bad it's hard to tell.

Cheers and Regards

Tripredacus · Post by **Tripredacus** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:31 am

Since Dencorso had posted the picture showing the "too many connections" error, we can presume that either there is some attack onto the site itself, or one of the services the site, or the hosting company uses.

PS: if anyone in the US knows how to send a text to a mobile number in Europe on an Android phone, LMK.

bphlpt · Post by **bphlpt** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:36 am

Tripredacus wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:31 am
f anyone in the US knows how to send a text to a mobile number in Europe on an Android phone, LMK.

Dumb question, but I didn't know that it would be any different than sending a text to any other number, such as to a US number, so what is different about sending to one in Europe?

Cheers and Regards

Tripredacus · Post by **Tripredacus** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:53 pm

You need to use an exit code, otherwise the text will go to the equivalent number in the US. Using the + sign on the exit code does not work, I am told the message wasn't received.

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 1:17 pm

Surely you just put the appropriate country code in front of the number, exactly as if you were calling it?
I am in Europe, and I regularly text a number in the States with no problem, so surely it should work the other way around?
I also saw the "too many connections" message once, but usually there's no response at all from the MSFN forum pages.
It could indeed be a denial of service attack.

bphlpt · Post by **bphlpt** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 6:37 pm

Dave-H wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 05, 2018 1:17 pm
Surely you just put the appropriate country code in front of the number, exactly as if you were calling it?

That's what I assumed. Maybe Dave and Trip could experiment to see what works, since they are both active and could even call each other until they are able to iron things out?

EDIT: On an unrelated note, what is it about MSFN that has caused it to be targeted for attack or have other major failures over the last several years? At least it seems that way when empirically comparing it to the uptimes and response times of other tech forums such as RyanVM, WinCert, MDL, etc.

Cheers and Regards

i430vx · Post by **i430vx** » Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:48 pm

bphlpt wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 05, 2018 6:37 pm
EDIT: On an unrelated note, what is it about MSFN that has caused it to be targeted for attack or have other major failures over the last several years? At least it seems that way when empirically comparing it to the uptimes and response times of other tech forums such as RyanVM, WinCert, MDL, etc.

Cheers and Regards

I know there are some people in various places that hold grudges against MSFN.
but that seems like a Denial of Service attack would be pretty low even for such people.
Even is such a thing is true (which I dont think is) it doesn't explain the reliability issues.

roytam1 · Post by **roytam1** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:50 am

oops, it is down again. showing centos default page now.

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:15 am

Seems to be working again now.
Fingers crossed!

Tripredacus · Post by **Tripredacus** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:10 pm

The host has said it was a switch problem. It is possible to get a "too many connections" type error with a switch that is malfunctioning. Generally can be caused by collisions. Try it out at home, take a network cable and connect it to two ports on your router and see what happens! xD

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:09 pm

Uh Oh! Guess what?

dencorso · Post by **dencorso** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:23 pm

I've just noticed it, too.

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:26 pm

Does the operator need to consult someone perhaps and get their "xper"t opinion? :p
(I promise to keep my day job)

roytam1 · Post by **roytam1** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:38 pm

Jody Thornton wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:09 pm
Uh Oh! Guess what?

oh it happens again.

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:22 am

What's actually wrong, MSFN seems to be working fine for me?

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:17 am

It wasn't - I fell asleep at 3:30 am, so it was down for a good five hours or so.
(too much questionable downtime)

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:48 am

I was asleep here in England during that time as well!

mockingbird · Post by **mockingbird** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 8:18 am

Does anyone know how I can get in touch with the admin? My account no longer works. I re-registered but received no confirmation email.

Thanks

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:24 am

This is a problem I'm afraid, AFAIK there is no way of contacting xper (the site owner) except through the site, which is not a lot of use if the site is down or you can't login to it!
I've just looked, and assuming your user name at MSFN is also "mockingbird" you are appearing as a registered member who joined 18 hours ago, so it looks as if your registration did work!

mockingbird · Post by **mockingbird** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:28 pm

Dave-H wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:24 am
This is a problem I'm afraid, AFAIK there is no way of contacting xper (the site owner) except through the site, which is not a lot of use if the site is down or you can't login to it!
I've just looked, and assuming your user name at MSFN is also "mockingbird" you are appearing as a registered member who joined 18 hours ago, so it looks as if your registration did work!

Yes that's me

But it appears as though my account was purged because I have two confirmation emails from 2007 proving I joined then.

Either way, when I go there it says it is awaiting validation for my account, and when I re-send confirmation email, nothing appears.

Can you please PM him for me?

Cheers

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:07 pm

I will, but are you sure the confirmation e-mails aren't just being caught by a spam filter?
I think the e-mails from MSFN are a bit flaky at the moment anyway, as I'm supposed to get notification if anyone posts to a thread I'm subscribed to, and for the last week or two I often haven't been getting anything when I shroud have done.

mockingbird · Post by **mockingbird** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:44 pm

Dave-H wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:07 pm
I will, but are you sure the confirmation e-mails aren't just being caught by a spam filter?
I think the e-mails from MSFN are a bit flaky at the moment anyway, as I'm supposed to get notification if anyone posts to a thread I'm subscribed to, and for the last week or two I often haven't been getting anything when I shroud have done.

Yes, I've checked and re-checked... The last email in my spam folder is an extortion email claiming I have been caught on my own webcam performing a certain act and to send a certain amount of money lest the video be released...

Thanks brother, I appreciate it.

dencorso · Post by **dencorso** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:31 am

That I can fix, AFAIK. Do please check whethter you can login normally now. If not, please let me know.

mockingbird · Post by **mockingbird** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:01 pm

dencorso wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:31 am
That I can fix, AFAIK. Do please check whethter you can login normally now. If not, please let me know.

Thanks

It let me bypass the validation and it's working now.

Dave-H · Post by **Dave-H** » Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:12 am

Great, glad Den was able to sort it out for you.

dencorso · Post by **dencorso** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 12:55 pm

Are we having a DoS attack on MSFN? It started just about now...

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i430vx · Post by **i430vx** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 3:26 pm

Yeah, just when I needed to look up some info on setting config files for windows 98se to limit it's RAM amount, the forum goes kaboom.

dencorso · Post by **dencorso** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:19 pm

i430vx wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 25, 2018 3:26 pm
Yeah, just when I needed to look up some info on setting config files for windows 98se to limit it's RAM amount, the forum goes kaboom.

I got you covered. This much I can do. Here:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=862 ... 8419262056
Take it with some grains of salt. Enjoy!

i430vx · Post by **i430vx** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:31 pm

dencorso wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:19 pm

i430vx wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 25, 2018 3:26 pm
Yeah, just when I needed to look up some info on setting config files for windows 98se to limit it's RAM amount, the forum goes kaboom.
I got you covered. This much I can do. Here:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=862 ... 8419262056
Take it with some grains of salt. Enjoy!

Thank you!

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:24 pm

xper REALLY needs a way to allow us to contact him other than the forum. This is getting crazy over the last year.

Tripredacus · Post by **Tripredacus** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 10:02 am

I have his cell phone number but I can never get my phone to work with the number. It always thinks it is a US phone number, not EU.

dencorso · Post by **dencorso** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 11:40 am

I think I got a WhatsApp msg sent him. No reply yet. Cross your fingers...

i430vx · Post by **i430vx** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 6:04 pm

It's back online!

However I'm unable to view my profile, another person I asked is also unable to view theirs.

bphlpt · Post by **bphlpt** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:08 pm

Still down for me.

i430vx · Post by **i430vx** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:43 pm

bphlpt wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:08 pm
Still down for me.

Yeah, it died again.

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Mon Nov 26, 2018 8:18 pm

Me thinks when it returns I should turn my uBlock back on. Sure I've never donated, but then again, I did endure ads ....lol

Dibya · Post by **Dibya** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:18 am

Come on . It's down again.

Dibya · Post by **Dibya** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:20 am

dencorso wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 25, 2018 12:55 pm
Are we having a DoS attack on MSFN? It started just about now...

Clipboard01.png

Call cops . somebody doing it .

dencorso · Post by **dencorso** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:43 am

Sent xper another msg, right now. Both sent & received, but neither read... Cross your fingers.

Dibya · Post by **Dibya** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:07 am

dencorso wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:43 am
Sent xper another msg, right now. Both sent & received, but neither read... Cross your fingers.

Does msfn has Facebook or Twitter page?

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:20 am

@Dibya: No this came up before. Xper seems to have secluded himself somewhat ....lol. I realize it's "his" forum, but when you've amassed a group of users to start relying on it, I then view it as a responsibility one has to those users.

Dibya · Post by **Dibya** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:49 am

Jody Thornton wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:20 am
@Dibya: No this came up before. Xper seems to have secluded himself somewhat ....lol. I realize it's "his" forum, but when you've amassed a group of users to start relying on it, I then view it as a responsibility one has to those users.

That's why many forum has two or more admins.
Here we have 5eraph and Ryan .
5eraph stay here always.

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:06 pm

Looks like we're back on. Tried with my Surface RT tablet a moment ago.

Jody Thornton · Post by **Jody Thornton** » Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:08 pm

Now on my Windows 8 PC. MSFN is on the air