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Thread Admin: AuctionArmsCeo (3-0-0) (Last 10 Posts) Posted: 04/04/2006 at 07:33:42
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Thread Title: "DNS outage this morning...."
AuctionArmsCeo This morning at about 06:30, our DNS provider (Domain Name Service for you non-twidget types) went toes-up for about half an hour. A DNS provides the service for associating the domain name (auctionarms.com) with it's corresponding IP address (a physical address in the form of a number). So when you type in blahblahblah.com, a request goes out to a DNS and sends the numbered address back to your browser, which then uses that address to get information from the server that owns it. Our DNS - provided by a monolithic, and strangely unresponsive - but so far reliable company, decided it needed a tiny vacation, so folks couldn't access things like pictures and item posting. AuctionArms.com itself never went down, and bids could still be placed. But pictures briefly couldn't be seen, as well as the item posting process.

It's up now, so I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
-manny
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Former Seller: tomon(36-0-0) Post#1 - Posted: 04/04/2006 at 08:14:01
tomon I was unable to connect to site during that time!

Former Seller: ultralite(9-0-0) Post#2 - Posted: 04/04/2006 at 12:41:26
(no avatar) i couldent connect for well over an hour, tried to connect several times, kept comming up web page unavailiable also said, unable to find server or dns provider, this has happened on many occasions during my almost comming up one year anniversary here on AA.

Former Seller: Wild West Guns(347-0-1) Post#3 - Posted: 04/05/2006 at 12:25:58
(no avatar) iM GETTING A WIERD PASSWORD PROMPT NOW

Seller: RivanWestern(655-0-0) Post#4 - Posted: 04/05/2006 at 12:32:46
(no avatar) Pictures are not showing. Right click the box x and show picture is prompting a wierd enter username & password dialog box.

Former Seller: Yone(166-0-0) Post#5 - Posted: 04/05/2006 at 12:33:18
(no avatar) Getting password prompt also. Took 5 miutes to get it off my screen. Tks

Thread Admin: AuctionArmsCeo(3-0-0) Post#6 - Posted: 04/05/2006 at 20:21:08
AuctionArmsCeo Password prompt was a different thing - sorry about that. We were updating security and that was a side effect. It's fixed now.
-manny

Former Seller: ultralite(9-0-0) Post#7 - Posted: 04/06/2006 at 03:57:54
(no avatar) UNABLE TO LOG ON THIS MORNING 6:57am, will not accept nickname or password says, ODBC error code= 37000 (syntax error or access violation).

Former Seller: Wild West Guns(352-0-1) Post#8 - Posted: 04/07/2006 at 12:11:02
(no avatar) Manny one of my thumbnails isnt showing! I want my .50 back...waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhsobsobsniffle :) Ken

Thread Admin: AuctionArmsCeo(3-0-0) Post#9 - Posted: 04/07/2006 at 20:04:08
AuctionArmsCeo Yer killin' me, Ken.... killin' me. ;-)
-manny

Buyer: greg4(171-0-0) Post#10 - Posted: 04/14/2006 at 13:34:03
(no avatar) 4-14-06 Am I the only one with this problem. Cant do a search in the new in the last 24 hrs. Keeps bringing up error. Has done this all day. Greg

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