British Blades Forum - down

[zorro]

A screenshot of what I'm seeing:
http://usera.ImageCave.com/DavTy/Clipboard01.jpg
Sorry to clutter up BCUK with this.

Admin on BB say there is nothing there stopping you accessing. Message as follows:-

He's certainly not blocked in any way. I suspect a rather tenacious cookie or something. See if he can clear them all then log out and click the link. Apart from that there's not a lot we can do, it's obviously at his end. Maybe, if that all doesn't work then he could try a search using site:britishblades.com and clicking from there?

Sorry mate, best I can come up with.

 

[pwb]

Just thought I'd let you know that It might not only be Leon as I can't seem to get in to BB either .

Says ' Closed briefly for server upgrade, please check back soon '

Haven't posted there, as yet, but did sign up and enjoy the site.

Pete.

 

[Leon]

Admin on BB say there is nothing there stopping you accessing. Message as follows:-

He's certainly not blocked in any way. I suspect a rather tenacious cookie or something. See if he can clear them all then log out and click the link. Apart from that there's not a lot we can do, it's obviously at his end. Maybe, if that all doesn't work then he could try a search using site:britishblades.com and clicking from there?

Sorry mate, best I can come up with.

Thanks for trying Zorro. Still have no access however. Interesting that Puub is getting the exact same message.
cheers, Toddy.

 

[Stuart69]

long-shot but maybe worth running something like ccleaner? see if that helps.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

 

[Leon]

long-shot but maybe worth running something like ccleaner? see if that helps.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Thanks for the tip Stuart. I have the latest version of ccleaner however and have run it twice.
Will have a look at settings to see if there's anything else that might help.

 

[Stuart69]

no worries mate, trying to think what could cause that you won't have already tried, it's strange

 

[Leon]

Still no luck.
Closed briefly for server upgrade, please check back soon.
Officially out of ideas

 

[Jacknife]

BB was down yesterday. It's not you.

Try now and you should be fine.

Hang on just checked the time you posted. BB is working for me NOW so if you aren't seeing it you may have a problem?

Are you using this link?

http://www.britishblades.com/forums/forum.php


.

 

[Leon]

Nope, still getting same message

 

[Jacknife]

Can't think why

 

[Martyn]

This is the fault of your ISP.

BritishBlades has moved to a new server. What's happened here is that your ISP has not flushed it's DNS records at the appropriate intervals like most others do (you are not on AOL by any chance?). This means that your ISP's cache of records for BritishBlades.com is still pointing to the old server and serving you the last available cached record for the domain from the now defunct serrver. All ISP's should flush the cache every 24 hours, but they are private company's and dont have to adhere to rules or conventions if they dont want to.

I would say it will solve itself in a day or two when your ISP finally gets round to flushing the cache and updating the DNS info.

You have 2 options.

1. Contact your ISP and ask them to update their DNS info.
2. Do nothing, they will eventually update that info as a matter of routine.

Sorry for the hassle. This has been a massive upgrade of both hardware and software, but aside from cosmetic changes in the coming weeks, the site should be functionally available to everyone now.

Try this link...
www.britishblades.com

It'll be slow as hell cos it's filtering through a proxy server, but it should work unless your ISP blocks proxy servers. If it does work for you, it'll prove that your issue is down to your ISP not flushing it's DNS cache and you will know that the issue will eventually resolve itself.

 

[Leon]

Thanks to everyone that pitched in to help. Martyn's post has pinpointed the problem for which I am eternally grateful:notworthy.
As it happens, I'm on the verge of changing ISPs: started with Pipex when it was good - seems a long while back now.
Puub, hope this gets you back in as well.
Cheers for now,
Dave

 

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Thanks for that post, Martyn. I've been having a similar problem (mostly it wouldn't let me in, occasionally it would). As Dave was consistently getting in, I ruled out the ISP, but flushed by Mac's dns cache - seems to have worked

 

[MagiKelly]

I'm getting the same thing but I am sure it will be fine by tomorrow.

 

[DurhamSteve]

Right, so the site is up it's just my isp that stopping me from getting on there ?
When ever i have tryed to log on for the least 4 days all i get is a page saying the site is closed for updates ????
I am about to call my isp and go totaly nuts with them, they need to sort their heads out.
Cheers for the update
Oh by the way it's J3st3r

Edit, nope i still cant get on lappy out the window i think , am going to dump cookies and restart router then its flying lappy

 

[Martyn]

I'm getting the same thing but I am sure it will be fine by tomorrow.

Yes mate, whenever a site changes server there are always DNS propagation issues.

Some people have had access to the new server almost immediately, some had to wait a few hours and it seems some people are still being pointed to the old server even now. The good news is that nothing is broken and these issues will just simply go away when the new DNS info has fully propagated.

 

[brancho]

I had to go through google as the links in my favourites didnt seem to want to work.
I have new ones now its OK.

 

[DurhamSteve]

Right, droped all cookies, used cc cleaner, and everyother thing i could think of
Tried other links from google to new post's
Still cant get on , just shows me the "closed for server upgrade........"
Any other thing i can do to get on
I could get on after the upgrade, just i cant now :S
DurhamSteve aka J3st3r

 

[Martyn]

It's your ISP mate. The only thing you can do is wait for them to update.

 

[Leon]

Right, droped all cookies, used cc cleaner, and everyother thing i could think of
Tried other links from google to new post's
Still cant get on , just shows me the "closed for server upgrade........"
Any other thing i can do to get on
I could get on after the upgrade, just i cant now :S
DurhamSteve aka J3st3r

I can still only get on via the proxy server link in Martyn's post. Like you, I could get on without a problem after the initial upgrades but ever since the 14th it's been a no go. I'm still getting the same page you are by the sound of it - from any direct link whatsoever.
What ISP are you using if you don't mind me asking?