Problems posting/replying to Club Matters forum

[iainmsmith]

Is anyone else having immense difficulty posting to the Club Matters forum? About 95% of my attempts to reply to other posts end in failure with generic internet error messages.

I'm using NTL Broadband, in case that sounds familiar to anyone.

Iain

[Keith Lawrence(BSAC)]

I have been discussing this with Iain, we need a bit more to go on. I'm not seeing it and I do tend to use the forums a little ;-)

Can you reply here if you've seen actual error messages, not just the usual posting delay. Let us now what your seeing (server busy, DNS problems...) and the ISP that you're using.

There shouldn't be anything wrong with our server, it's lightly loaded and at the end of a huge pipe (Easily's!) so I'm not convinced that the problem is our end, unless you tell us different that is.

Cheers All

Keith Lawrence
BSAC IT Team Leader

[PeteM]

I get this problem sometimes as well, Posting from Demon using a 2Mb ADSL link and from PlusNet using a 64K ISDN. If you refresh the error page you get to the Anyboard Master Admin page.

Interestingly I also get it occasionally on Diver Net which uses the same software and is also I believe hosted by Easily.

Message is a generic "Cannot find server" page. Once it happens it will happen again and again. Relogging in sometimes fixes the problem which might indicate a problem reading or writing the cookie.

Seems to be worst earlyish in the morning, about 09:00 which had made me suspect it might be a server load problem but just tried it (08:00) which is a quiet time on the internet so I suspect that is not the case.

HTH

Pete

[Keith Lawrence(BSAC)]

At 11:45 this morning I actually saw the problem myself, I was getting 'server not responding or DNS error'.

I've looked into this, it isn't our server. During the time period involved we had bags of processor oommph and memory available. But there =IS= some kind of intermittent problem with Easily, at the same time we were out/slow DiverNet was also out/slow - they are different servers but they are both hosted with Easily. The rest of the internet was OK. The outage lasted around 30 seconds or so.

I think what we are experiencing here is some local routing problems within Easily, most ISP's have them at some time, Easily are a lot better than most! I know that they have been swamped by SPAM recently and it has been causing server and network delays with some Easily accounts (like mine).

We'll keep an eye on the situation, our previous experiences with this ISP tell us that problems are normally temporary. But if anybody else is seeing this as well it would be useful to know.

Kind Regards

Keith Lawrence
BSAC IT Team