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[kitz]

I really hope that has sorted it for you TD 

[BritBrat]

No problems here for a while.

[UncleUB]

Are you still having problems TD ?

[tuftedduck]

Yes, it has started again.

All day yesterday was beautiful....zipping along without a hitch.

Today, every post the same old error....time after time.....and in Opera and IE7

Why ok one day, and then belly up the next without having made any alterations anywhere..........and why only me ?

edit.........having said that, this post went in no problem

[silversurfer44]

Not wanting to sow the seeds of doom but have you done good anti-virus check?
Also make sure your wastebin is empty.

[roseway]

Other that SS44's suggestion, I think that we must be back to the theory that it's a routing issue. The Opera problem was really a side issue, only related to the blocking of googlesyndication. With that unblocked, I don't really think that the browser is responsible for the ongoing difficulty.

We've all had occasional experiences of the forum appearing to seize up for a minute or so, and we can be reasonably confident that it's not the fault of the hosting server, which is extremely fast and running well within its capacity. My own experience has shown a repeatable difference in routing behaviour between the normal forum response and the unresponsive state. So I suspect that TD's problem is just a more troublesome manifestation of the same general routing issue.

Unfortunately, testing this theory is rather difficult, and I don't expect that you want to change ISP just on the offchance that it might be the solution.

[tuftedduck]

Thank you for the further comments.

It must be an "external" problem as you suggest............as suddenly as it arose this morning, it has now cleared again.

I know that virgin media has a "we are going slow" post on their service status webby......that may be the root cause. Maybe a change ofISP is next to be considered.

[UncleUB]

Thank you for the further comments.

It must be an "external" problem as you suggest............as suddenly as it arose this morning, it has now cleared again.

I know that virgin media has a "we are going slow" post on their service status webby......that may be the root cause. Maybe a change ofISP is next to be considered.

It must be very frustrating not to be able to get to the bottom of it after exploring all the options/advice given. 

Irrc you don't have any LLU isp's enabled in your exchange TD,so perhaps a switch to an isp who has very knowledgeable support staff,such as Zen,Newnet or IDnet might be beneficial in the long run  

[jeffbb]

Hi
Perhaps you could try http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm if you suspect that there is a DNS routing problem .

Regards Jeff

[tonyappuk]

Just had a period when I was unable to connect either to the forum or the main site. Googling around didn't show anybody else with the problem so I guess it's local to my connection. All back now but was probably u/s for at least 3 mins so I thought it was worth reporting.
Tony

[tuftedduck]

It was down, tonyappuk, for a while between about 1600-1618 hours.

Fine now..

[tonyappuk]

Thanks TD
Tony

[kitz]

From the Service status

A couple of servers are currently inaccessible. Please bear with us and we will update shortly.
This is due to an issue with one rack and is affecting Athens, Exeter, Caracas and My.Vidahost. Apologies for the disruption.

All servers are now back online.
The cause here was a faulty switch which has been replaced. This was our first hardware failure for several years - apologies for the ~17min disruption

[kitz]

Since hopefully TD's problem is resolved, Im going to lock this now.
If there's any fresh incidents please feel free to start a new thread

[tuftedduck]

I've done a sneaky unlock of the topic as I owe it all the good Kitizens who helped and assisted in my problem, and who all spent lots of time and effort to help.

The problem lay in the WebShield component of my av prog. Avast 5 Free Edition.
Having taken advices from the good people at the Avast forum, the issue was resolved by doing a bit of minor and internal tweakery in Avast.

No problems at all since that was done.

Thank you again.....will relock the thread now.