Does the new forum seem to crash? Or simply not show up?

We are still looking for bugs with the new forum. I’ve noticed that there were times when I did not seem to be able to bring up any of our websites on the Forumosa server - my browser would time out

If you encounter something like this in the next couple of weeks, and you use Windows, please do the following for us:

[quote]While connected to the Internet from a windows command prompt please enter the following command.

tracert forumosa.com

This will show the time in milliseconds on the internet from your local ISP to our site.

You can right click in the command prompt to mark and copy the results. Please email the results to us so we can analyze the data[/quote]
Email your screenshot or paste the results into an email message addressed to admin (at) forumosa.com

We will send them to our Web Host for analysis

Thanks in advance for helping us out

gus.

Don’t type that, type this:

tracert www.forumosa.com

I get

C:\>tracert http://www.forumosa.com Unable to resolve target system name http://www.forumosa.com.

I’m at home now where I can at least get connected to the site. From my office just timeouts…

Tried again but without the .

[code]C:>tracert www.forumosa.com

Tracing route to forumosa.com [70.86.115.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms buffalo.setup [192.168.11.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 4 ms 1 ms 6 ms 211-76-115-1.static.kbronet.com.tw [211.76.115.1]
4 66 ms 17 ms 88 ms 61-30-166-177.static.tfn.net.tw [61.30.166.177]
5 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms 61-31-253-65.static.tfn.net.tw [61.31.253.65]
6 6 ms 4 ms 2 ms 60-199-4-38.static.tfn.net.tw [60.199.4.38]
7 2 ms 1 ms 4 ms 60-199-6-70.static.tfn.net.tw [60.199.6.70]
8 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 60-199-6-214.static.tfn.net.tw [60.199.6.214]
9 5 ms 8 ms 11 ms 61.58.33.189
10 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms xe-1-0-0.r21.taiptw01.tw.bb.gin.ntt.net [61.58.32.153]
11 44 ms 67 ms 41 ms as-2.r21.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.81]
12 144 ms 153 ms 152 ms as-0.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.145]
13 42 ms 40 ms 122 ms as-0.r21.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.122]
14 103 ms 76 ms 95 ms xe-4-3.r03.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.238]
15 157 ms 187 ms 196 ms xe-4-4.r03.hstntx01.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.1.6]
16 137 ms 54 ms 149 ms et3-1.ibr01.hstntx2.theplanet.com [70.87.253.166]
17 131 ms 156 ms 98 ms et5-4.ibr03.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.49]
18 83 ms 134 ms 129 ms te9-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.22]
19 131 ms 77 ms 67 ms po32.dsr02.dllstx5.theplanet.com [70.85.127.110]
20 84 ms 137 ms 60 ms po2.car04.dllstx5.theplanet.com [70.84.160.166]
21 66 ms 137 ms 55 ms a.73.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.115.10]
Trace complete.
[/code]

this is the first time i have seeen f’mosa in two days! i get a variety of server busy messages, or timeouts.

one server message is generated by the phpBB software, and informs me that forumosa 200808 has exceeded its allowed user numbers (1028). now i dont see that one so much, but it was prevalent on sunday night/ monday morning.

the others are generated by my browser(s): safari and firefox (latest versions). at work (super fast T 1 million connection) i get timeouts mostly now.

That’s wierd Roach, we’re with the same internet provider, yet you have a lot more hops than me and seem to use a different network out of Taiwan…

Tracing route to forumosa.com [70.86.115.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.2
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 140 ms 74 ms 73 ms 211-76-117-1.static.kbronet.com.tw [211.76.117.1
]
4 235 ms 263 ms 248 ms h65-192-72-108.seed.net.tw [192.72.108.65]
5 80 ms 145 ms 125 ms R57-94.seed.net.tw [139.175.57.94]
6 253 ms 282 ms 251 ms R58-18.seed.net.tw [139.175.58.18]
7 224 ms 219 ms 211 ms R56-82.seed.net.tw [139.175.56.82]
8 265 ms 261 ms 264 ms R56-49.seed.net.tw [139.175.56.49]
9 183 ms 177 ms 231 ms R58-193.seed.net.tw [139.175.58.193]
10 273 ms 274 ms 393 ms ge9-1.br02.lax04.pccwbtn.net [63.218.51.77]
11 248 ms 213 ms 218 ms theplanet.ge6-6.br02.dal01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.2
3.122]
12 249 ms 268 ms 216 ms te7-2.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.26]

13 272 ms 253 ms 276 ms po32.dsr02.dllstx5.theplanet.com [70.85.127.110]

14 238 ms 220 ms 264 ms po2.car04.dllstx5.theplanet.com [70.84.160.166]

15 204 ms 200 ms 252 ms a.73.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.115.10]

Trace complete.

Yeah, I’ve had problems over the last couple of days too, I think the SQL server went down or something.

Yesterday I couldn’t log in all day…some odd SQL error.
Today, for most of the day, the server seemed dead.

[quote=“urodacus”]this is the first time i have seeen f’mosa in two days! I get a variety of server busy messages, or timeouts.

one server message is generated by the phpBB software, and informs me that forumosa 200808 has exceeded its allowed user numbers (1028). now I don’t see that one so much, but it was prevalent on Sunday night/ monday morning.

the others are generated by my browser(s): safari and firefox (latest versions). at work (super fast T 1 million connection) I get timeouts mostly now.[/quote]

Yep, same with me. Now is the first time in close to 2 days that I’ve had access. (Heaven forbid that I actually try and get something done at work :slight_smile: )

Anyway, here’s the message that I was consistently getting:

But glad you’re back up!

Got that SQL error here, too, for the last 2 days or so until earlier today. Tried different browsers and ADSL lines.

yup, I got the SQL error too.

Thank you for all the feedback thus far. When I posted up the original message, I did not have the SQL error in mind - that’s a separate issue and we are still trying to get a grip on the magnitude of this problem (ie. we don’t know why this is happening yet)

The original post referred to times when the forums (and its sister websites: www.taiwanease.com) would not be available. They simply cannot be reached, so your browser times out

Please keep posting here, on our blog at www.TaiwanHo.com/talk - they are helpful in our discussions with our tech support :notworthy:

Before we were getting those squirrel errors, then later the browser couldn’t find a website at the address, even though it pinged ok.

I got the exceeded its allowed user numbers error too, until just a few minutes ago.

[quote=“rocky raccoon”][quote=“urodacus”]this is the first time i have seeen f’mosa in two days! I get a variety of server busy messages, or timeouts.

one server message is generated by the phpBB software, and informs me that forumosa 200808 has exceeded its allowed user numbers (1028). now I don’t see that one so much, but it was prevalent on Sunday night/ monday morning.

the others are generated by my browser(s): safari and firefox (latest versions). at work (super fast T 1 million connection) I get timeouts mostly now.[/quote]

Yep, same with me. Now is the first time in close to 2 days that I’ve had access. (Heaven forbid that I actually try and get something done at work :slight_smile: )

Anyway, here’s the message that I was consistently getting:

Yep, got that, too, all day yesterday.

But glad you’re back up![/quote]

I’ve had the SQL thingie and the other one that simply failed to recognize the site.

Nice to be back, though… :bow:

Fuck, I’d completely forgotten about the 'Ho…

Fuck, I’d completely forgotten about the 'Ho…[/quote]
Shit!!! I just broke my magical 404 post count!!! Dammit!

I’m having random connectivity problems, one minute the site flies and the next I can’t access it at all and five minutes later it’s fine again. It’s not my ISP, as I can access other website and download stuff just fine, so there seems to be something else going on.

Hi TLS, I won’t argue with you. It is precisely this problem that I started this thread. Please try running the trace route command as described above (for Windows users) and send us the report. It helps our tech guys understand the problem. There are at least 2 distinct connection problems plaguing the website

Running Mac OSX 10.4.11

When in a topic the browser (Safari) will refresh on it’s own. Happens every minute or so. However doesn’t have a problem on the main page.

L.