Is it just me... or is it a busted piece a s*** lately?

Get fasterfox and turn it to turbo charged, that should fix it.

Seems fine for me, with firefaaaaawkz.

It's just you

Images have broken links, and I get a server errors on page redirects.

Get fasterfox and turn it to turbo charged, that should fix it.

lawlz

yeah I get half loaded pages here & there, some images don't load sometimes the css won't parse. I blame valve.

Same deal here, it's not just him.

I can start posting again if you really want me to

^ Too late :)

that won't be necessary

I miss Kat's posts.

8-(

i have had no problem accessing this forum, although i do get a HTTP 417 error occasionally when there's no interesting threads being posted

I got better access to your mum.

Hey cool! Spell checking on syntax in posts!!

i'm ok since i removed fasterfox so kat's absence isn't the issue

the admins just don't care anymore, they are jaded they've been doing this for 'free' for close to 10 years now....

I guess their commercial/business stuff is more important

why not just whack on phpbb or one of those free ones and be done with it, no maintenance required, or less then this??


lol

i like how qgl uses a unique forum setup. it's quirky.

It's not that we don't care, trog in particular still devotes a lot of his time to ausgamers. And yes our business is important because it sustains everything we do.

From my point of view, it's difficult to diagnose what nitro is describing because from every point of access we have such as our two office links from two completely different providers, our home connections from several different providers, other networks we manage and in either IE6, IE7 or firefox with and without plugins, we don't see these symptoms and it's therefore difficult to diagnose. For example the only broken image I see in this page is nitro's sig ( http://img.dafont.com/smileys/yeah.gif ) which is hosted externally and is a plain 404. I'm primarily using IE7 on this pc, and on my work pc I primarily use the latest stable firefox 2

Maybe one of you guys who is exepriencing the issue and has a bit of networking/http knowhow can suss out what exactly's occuring in your case and post your findings. If the cause is something on this end we can most likely fix it, or at least explain why it is the way it is.

I saw it one day, but figured it was my PC because I was having connection issues at the time and it came good moments later.

I've had broken images a few times ( avatars etc but main images are fine ) but a refresh has always fixed. If it happens again I'll see if I can suss anything out.

Yeah i get half loaded and like all the pics are missing etc. But I'd still rather have it half busted than lose the QGL msg board personality! Place would lose it's character if it changed to ultimate bb etc.

I can start posting again if you really want me to

rofl. I was wondering why I was less annoyed at QGL forum lately, and there's the answer! Happens every time kat stops posting, but for some reason I can't put my finger on it until it get's pointed out.

i think its when the server is running under load, I get a page full of red X's and have to reload a few times...

It doesn't happen that often, and I also haven't seen it for a few days, but yeah... I have seen it.

I have it everytime at work with IE7, but im behind a proxy there. Iv put it down to IE7 being gay, because FireFox works fine

I turned down the network tweak in firefore from "power" to "default" and now qgl etc loads fine without broken images the 1st time. I just put that down to your Chinese drones counter measures that borked some Firefox users with power network tweak setting.

as per the other thread, its because your end is making too many connections to our server; its on the list of things to fix - it was a temp measure that was put in place to stop chinese spam f***s smashing our site

the admins just don't care anymore, they are jaded they've been doing this for 'free' for close to 10 years now....

your gay

if people's browsers are raping the server why not frustrate them back. seems fair.

Maybe one of you guys who is exepriencing the issue and has a bit of networking/http knowhow can suss out what exactly's occuring in your case and post your findings.

the really odd thing is when I click "view image" in firefox on a broken image the image loads just fine. It seems more like a timeout issue, like the server just closes the connection because it thinks I'm done loading. You know how way back in the days of 56k you'd have to refresh a bunch of times to get an entire page of large pictures? To me this seems like a similar problem.

Didn't trog say they'd lowered the number of concurrent connections to a single connection per ip as well?

edit: I don't even have fasterfox
edit2: I just changed max connections per server to 1 in about:config, lets see how that goes.

last edited by whoop at 18:27:46 11/Mar/07

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Using vanilla IE7 when loading the forum I get a server error 503 on trying to get the CSS and I'm not sure if it means anything but I'm also recieving TCP checksup incorrect errors as well on something, haven't quite figured out what yet.

edit: seems the tcp checksum errors are when I try to "get" the images from www.ausforums.com/images, well at least that's what it looks like to me, then again I don't know very much.


this is just 2 of the 503 unavailable replies I get. One from the css and one from an image. Both in IE7 and as far as I know there's been no tweaking to its connection properties, hell I don't even know HOW to tweak IE7's connections. Firefox and opera sure, easy but ie7? pfft.

last edited by whoop at 19:28:51 11/Mar/07

not as bad as youtube yet!

yeh its s***

If you're seeing those checksum errors on your host (ie connection endpoint) it's probably because your nic driver offloading checksum calculations to the nic itself.

setup iptables to check the packet checkums before forwarding on and you should see them pass and forward. This would indicate your host is just showing the wrong checksums inside your OS due to hardware offloading.

ipwhat? windows doesn't have iptables. My wrt54g probably does but I'm not going to go messing around with it. Everything seems to work in firefox with 1 connection per server, I'd say IE is just trying to make too many connections and getting 503'd on all the images & the css. Like I said though, I have no idea where IE keeps that s*** but I figure the admins would rather try to make it work on default IE settings rather than tell everyone to go change their settings just for this place.

yeah definitely want it working for default settings

My brother saw what was happening and said something like "the css table is loading properly" or something.

yor brother is a bad egg

its a simple server side change, now that we're not getting DOSed we'll just unset it

Spook: watch out or he will hax you.

lol

you're

p.s. New York rocks my world, love this place :)

It's broken Jim but not as you know it.

If anythiing, this site loads better and faster than the vast majority of any other sites i visit...Dial-up FTW

Dial up for lyfe yo

hmph


adsl next week.....

htf can people still be on dialup in this day and age?

cos i don't spend much time on the net at home
im always at work (cainor link), girfriends (optus cable) or elsewhere

school + work provides me all the s*** I could ever need.

I have made a change which should fix most of these problems; if people that were having probs can let me know if that's fixed it that'd be neat

works in firefox, still broken in IE7. I think we can call it fixed, who uses IE these days?

Edit: works fine in opera too. I must have somehow broken ie7 without trying.

last edited by whoop at 20:40:25 12/Mar/07

trog, it was fine for me last night and this morning, up until a minute ago. then everything broke, got a server unavailable due to busy or down, and the fonts/styles got all screwed.

couple of refreshes later the fonts/styles are back but some images broken.

i have been having issues with qgl for the last couple of weeks, but last night seemed fine.

I can't replicate in IE, its fine for me now - whoop, just one person on your connection there or more?

I got the problem again in last 10 mins.
I'm accessing from behind NAT router that has about 80 computers behind it going through one real IP. Have been using this NAT setup for quite some time now without problems up until a few weeks ago.

Couldn't imagine more than one other person at my work accessing QGL at same time as me.

hmm ok

coochie, is there a proxy server that you or people at your work use?

still rooted

Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at qgl.ausforums.com Port 80

useful

I rekon its jim's fault ... he is shedding load on qgl for his 4wd forums.

Must still be broken, whenever I click on the threads all I see is tards posting s***.

hey you've already made your annual post :D

I've set my firefox back to the chinese attack drones mode and QGL's still working fine. Good job.

OK so can I go back to completely downloading this forum?

I've turned off the thing doing this now; noone should have any problems any more. If you do please post here but I'll laugh at you because they'll be your problems now.

...and, now we're getting raped by retarded software or chinese drones or something again

racist

I don't think you can really get 'raped' by the chinese, their dicks are too small to feel it. BUNG.

I'm running IE7 and getting those constant 503 messages (or whatever it is). Did you put the server condom thingy back on to protect it, or do I have a problem at my end?

Yeh sorry I put it back on pending more research

Ah OK. Just wanted to make sure so I know where the problem lies :D

Edit: Couldn't you block or ban all Chinese IP's? That's what WoW should do : /

They'll just use open proxies or TOR. (heck the chinese use that s*** alot already). We randomly get attacked at work by them... nfi why)

it's cos they think you are saying 'kiss me kiss me' obes

Nerf China IMO.