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[Remspoor]

back log now flushed through.  👍

[SiC]

When I looked through the mail server logs last night, it was saying it couldn't resolve the address of the gmail.com email server and that it didn't exist. Obviously that was bollocks. Config wise it looked all okay and the mail server user account could resolve it properly.

I tried a test email and that came through just fine to my Gmail and yahoo accounts.

So decided to do the ol' turn it off/on again by restarting the mail server. This seemed to fixed it and the email queue was flushed through. Which is what you would have all seen yesterday evening.

Not sure why the resolver was playing silly buggers all of a sudden. Can only think it might have not restarted properly or in the right order after a software update. At the moment I have it auto restarting on updates. Not usually something you usually want on a production server but I've set it up to be fairly independent just in case something happens to me and if it took a few weeks for a handover. It set to restart overnight so given this is a predominantly UK site, it's unlikely to impact anyone. 

Gotta love software.

[nomiST]

Thank you!

[Zelandeth]

Anyone else finding image loading incredibly slow today or is that a local problem at my end?  Only seems to be here that's affected though and speed test isn't showing anything odd - across both mobile and desktop so it's nothing browser specific.

[myglaren]

I am finding most sites to be slow and jerky.

[St.Jude]

The site seems to be really struggling today. Thought it was my phone but it's equally sluggish on the laptop.

[myglaren]

Has been OK for me.

[High Jetter]

Yup, for me too on phone & PC

[Dick Cheeseburger]

The site keeps crashing for me - something something Cloudflare...

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

The site keeps crashing for me - something something Cloudflare...

[N19]

3 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

The site keeps crashing for me - something something Cloudflare...

Global issue affecting a lot of services just now.

[RayMK]

1 minute ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

The site keeps crashing for me - something something Cloudflare...

Same here.  I could not access Autoshite from about 1pm until  2-30pm.  

[Pieman]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o

[High Jetter]

It's only just working again for me

[St.Jude]

Glad it’s back.

There was a good 3 hours there where I was forced to work because I couldn’t log on to here.

[rusty_vw_man]

3 minutes ago, St.Jude said:

Glad it’s back.

There was a good 3 hours there where I was forced to work because I couldn’t log on to here.

Likewise - desperate times. Hope it’s stable this evening or I’ll be reduced to talking to my family….. 

[SiC]

Was it this error?

Unfortunately not one I could do a lot about and something that affected quite a lot of the internet world. So many sites have Cloudflare between them and the general world, it buggers a lot up. 

[barefoot]

5 minutes ago, SiC said:

Unfortunately not one I could do a lot about

Dave numbers could have sorted it.

[loserone]

17 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Dave numbers could have sorted it.

He's have flattened it with a bit of glass and wet and dry.  RIP.

 

I think you mean Dave before seven 

[St.Jude]

29 minutes ago, SiC said:

Was it this error?

Unfortunately not one I could do a lot about and something that affected quite a lot of the internet world. So many sites have Cloudflare between them and the general world, it buggers a lot up. 

One or two of my sites were affected, but it didn’t matter. Was a good test for what could go wrong, so I’m reviewing that.

A friend wasn’t so lucky. All his sites went down like Autoshite, and as Cloudflare itself was banjaxed he couldn’t login and do anything to point them elsewhere.

Its a monumental flamingo up.*
 

 

*like a cock up, but bigger 

[SiC]

2 hours ago, loserone said:

He's have flattened it with a bit of glass and wet and dry.  RIP.

 

I think you mean Dave before seven 

Nah Dave Numbers could fix everything. 

He would have driven down to the Paris data centre that AS is hosted at with a reel of fibre and driven along hanging his arm out of the window, till he could get to Level3 DC to then hook it directly into a major backbone.

[SiC]

8 minutes ago, St.Jude said:

A friend wasn’t so lucky. All his sites went down like Autoshite, and as Cloudflare itself was banjaxed he couldn’t login and do anything to point them elsewhere.

TBF I didn't even try the Cloudflare site to see if I could do anything...

I was too busy (literally) bouncing down the runway in this thing that I'm trying to learn how to not crash land.

Also check out the aerodromes fire truck!

Anyway I basically figured by the time I could do anything to bypass Cloudflare, it probably would have been fixed anyway given how critical Cloudflare is to much of the internet that makes money and be moaning the loudest.

[High Jetter]

Once I saw Cloudflare from this, and some other sites, I slacked off and went to the pub 😀

[Dave_Q]

Mobile browser on android, when uploading screenshots they upload as a black rectangle.

Can get it to work by removing the pictures and trying again several times but it's annoying.

I think @UltraWomble mentioned the same, we happen to use the same phone (Xiaomi spyware deluxe Poco X7)

Anything that can be done, or probably a me not you problem?

[Emootikoah]

Unsure if this is the correct place to ask, but is there an existing thread for car audio systems and maybe retro face off stereos etc? Cheers!

[Split_Pin]

Given the recent Cloudflare crap-out earlier this year, thought this migth be appropriate.

[bunglebus]

Am I the only one having weird things go on with my notifications? If I get a "such and such quoted you" or whatever, and I click on it, it takes me to the right thread, but the wrong place - often the post above mine

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Am I the only one having weird things go on with my notifications? If I get a "such and such quoted you" or whatever, and I click on it, it takes me to the right thread, but the wrong place - often the post above mine

No my notifications normally take me to the right thread but 3 years ago.

 

 

[Pieman]

Assistance needed please - I want to change my password but have been on auto sign-in for so long I've forgotten my current one, and when I ask for a password reset email I am not receiving one.  Could a mod help me out please?

[myglaren]

Look in your browsers password file.