Author Topic: m6 gone away again? (Read 16626 times)

MJR · Reply #25 - 04 February 2008, 22:59:12

Any estimates when it'll be back up?

Cornflake · Reply #26 - 04 February 2008, 23:16:05

Heh, I wish I knew. Who maintains the forum servers? Obviously if it was on the same servers as the main Orbiter website,
that would be down too - but it's not...

*EDIT* I don't see a contact Email for Martin S. I don't know if he manages the forums as well, but I thought maybe we should email him about the problems. Apparently by searching on Google for m6.net reviews, 90% of them or horrible. Actually, at one review site, a reviewer says:

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Stay away from M6 hosting, this is a horrible service. I have a windows hosting package with MySQL db, the site goes down or has intermittent problems a couple times a month.

^ That's from http://www.vistainter.com/reviews/M/m6.net/ . Here's more reviewers:http://www.hostsearch.com/review/m6net_review.asp

Post Edited ( 02-05-08 00:18 )

MJR · Reply #27 - 05 February 2008, 01:53:02

This whole situation is starting to tick me off!:worry:

MJR · Reply #28 - 05 February 2008, 02:33:52

It seems back up for me, except I really can't read any threads.

It keeps saying timeout expired.

Doug Beachy · Reply #29 - 05 February 2008, 02:47:23

It almost looks like a denial-of-service (DOS) attack, since the system is up but has been very, very slow for days
now -- it is acting like a bot is hammering the system with non-stop searches. This is just speculation, of course...

MJR · Reply #30 - 05 February 2008, 02:48:20

What do you think has caused this?

Cornflake · Reply #31 - 05 February 2008, 02:51:55

Well, the search hasn't ever worked since I've been at the forum. Then again, if a search still searches all the threads even
though it doesn't "work" than a DOS attack could be possible...

What reason would someone have for a DOS attack? I mean, I doubt we're coming up with any groundbreaking space travel
theories that a disgruntled Russian space official would care about... plus i've tried constantly and haven't been able to load a thread even once.

Post Edited ( 02-05-08 02:52 )

MJR · Reply #32 - 05 February 2008, 02:53:47

The search engine sucks, but its pretty strange that the orbiter forums always crashes.

Doug Beachy · Reply #33 - 05 February 2008, 02:54:28

Well, it's impossible to tell without more information, but based on the symptoms it could be a hardware problem on
M6's end causing all traffic to be bottlenecking internally, or it could be that the M6 forum and/or database server is
being hammered by some other processes. Or it could be DOS attack -- who knows? M6 never communicates back to
the admins, so it's basically a black hole until someone at M6 decides to put down his beer and fix the problem...

EDIT: the forum usually does come up for me, but it takes several minutes for the page to load. It's essentially useless (just like the search function...)

Post Edited ( 02-05-08 02:56 )

MJR · Reply #34 - 05 February 2008, 02:55:47

Well if it doesn't get back up and runnning by friday I'm eventually going to be threw with it.

MJR · Reply #35 - 05 February 2008, 03:18:23

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MJR wrote:
Well if it doesn't get back up and runnning by friday I'm eventually going to be done with it.

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linguofreak · Reply #36 - 05 February 2008, 03:27:00

I'm actually now getting better ping time to orbit.m6.net than here, but I'm still unable to access any threads.

It might have been a DOS attack back when the ping times were on the order of seconds, but, with ping times now
being reasonable and the error on trying to access threads in the forum being one that typically appears when M6 is
being user unfriendly, I think it's just a normal M6 wetware failure...

Cornflake · Reply #37 - 05 February 2008, 03:46:36

Hmm, just now I've been able to access the forum threads again. It's still loading slow, but seems to be loading non the
less. I better take advantage before it goes down again...

MJR · Reply #38 - 05 February 2008, 03:51:23

It woking NOW.

Scrooge McDuck · Reply #39 - 05 February 2008, 17:42:04

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MJR wrote:
It woking NOW.
join today.

Trying to spam here as much as on the M6 forum?

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linguofreak · Reply #40 - 05 February 2008, 20:40:45

Looks like it may be down again. I tried making a post and it's absolutely crawling, with ping times back up over a
second. Let's see if I even get through.

Cornflake · Reply #41 - 05 February 2008, 20:44:23

Yep, not working again. Here's what I get (It's different than what I usually get):

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Server Error in '/' Application.
Request timed out.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace
for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: Request timed out.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and
location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[HttpException (0x80004005): Request timed out.]

Urwumpe · Reply #42 - 05 February 2008, 21:19:16

Thats the usual error I got the last days. It means that the other server crashed.

Scrooge McDuck · Reply #43 - 06 February 2008, 11:11:05

It works again, now. Seems much faster then the days before.

mcduck

computerex · Reply #44 - 06 February 2008, 14:56:40

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Scrooge McDuck wrote:
It works again, now. Seems much faster then the days before.

mcduck

8:56 AM EST USA - it's "down" again.

MJR · Reply #45 - 06 February 2008, 14:58:56

Mine is going slow but I still can post.

Scrooge McDuck · Reply #46 - 06 February 2008, 20:09:13

Its down again in NL.
This appears to be insane, its going on and offline all the time.

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Scrooge McDuck wrote:
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MJR wrote:
It woking NOW.
join today.
Trying to spam here as much as on the M6 forum?

I'm sorry, just noticed you are not the original VUASO spammer on the M6 forum. Didn't know it was your signature instead of the post itself.

[edit]
It seems I was wrong, it actually does work, but it's just ultra slow...
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MJR · Reply #47 - 07 February 2008, 00:13:17

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Scrooge McDuck wrote:
Its down again in NL.
This appears to be insane, its going on and offline all the time.

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Scrooge McDuck wrote:
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MJR wrote:
It woking NOW.
join today.
Trying to spam here as much as on the M6 forum?
I'm sorry, just noticed you are not the original VUASO spammer on the M6 forum. Didn't know it was your signature
instead of the post itself.

[edit]
It seems I was wrong, it actually does work, but it's just ultra slow...
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LOL.

MJR · Reply #48 - 07 February 2008, 00:32:44

Man I can't stand it. It is so slow it gets frustrating.

linguofreak · Reply #49 - 07 February 2008, 02:22:01

For me it's going back and forth between "works like a charm," "slow as molasses in January," and "dead."

It's down for me at the moment, but look at this latest ping I made to orbit.m6.net when I couldn't get through:

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Pinging orbit.m6.net [64.34.165.119] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.34.165.119: bytes=32 time=476ms TTL=119
Reply from 64.34.165.119: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=119
Reply from 64.34.165.119: bytes=32 time=405ms TTL=119
Reply from 64.34.165.119: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=119

Ping statistics for 64.34.165.119:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 49ms, Maximum = 476ms, Average = 244ms

Two packets got back in reasonable time, two took nearly half a second. The thing that suprises me is that they all
took *either* a very long time (relatively speaking) or a rather short time, with no in-between.