Website access problems

[James England]

Does anyone find that XS11.com suddenly becomes unavailable? Recently, it's happening a lot to me... I just 'lose' the site and when I reload...my browser tells me it's a non-existent site. I can't get it via favourites either. Sometimes, if I google XS11.com and click the link, it works. Other times if I clear all cookies, I can get the site to load. Other times not. It's happening more and more.

I've never been paranoid or into conspiracy theories but I know for sure that y'all don't want me on the site and are out to get me by blocking my computer....

[WSL91]

Does anyone find that XS11.com suddenly becomes unavailable? Recently, it's happening a lot to me... I just 'lose' the site and when I reload...my browser tells me it's a non-existent site. I can't get it via favourites either. Sometimes, if I google XS11.com and click the link, it works. Other times if I clear all cookies, I can get the site to load. Other times not. It's happening more and more.

I've never been paranoid or into conspiracy theories but I know for sure that y'all don't want me on the site and are out to get me by blocking my computer....

Happens all the time. Next time it does it I'll check to see what IP it was resolving too etc. Acts like its on dynamic dns. Currently resolves to 64.119.182.118 Addressee has the entire class C space
Next time it happens open a command line and type ipconfig /flushdns (enter) then type nslookup www.xs11.com and see what address it resolves too. The first address given will be the one answering your query, the url/address for the site will be after the Non-authoritative answer:

[BA80]

Damn! He found us again.

It's just the out dated servers that vBulletin is using I found out.

[crazy steve]

I'm not so sure it's just their servers; I've been having trouble off and on lately getting onto other sites, like google and MSM, who shouldn't be having issues or so you would think. I read somewhere very recently that one problem is all the people streaming video; Netflix accounted for something like 60% of all internet traffic...

[BA80]

I'm not so sure it's just their servers; I've been having trouble off and on lately getting onto other sites, like google and MSM, who shouldn't be having issues or so you would think. I read somewhere very recently that one problem is all the people streaming video; Netflix accounted for something like 60% of all internet traffic...

Yeah, My son is a cable tech and he said that the heat will affect the internet also do to causing a higher resistance in the wires.

[WSL91]

Whoever is hosting your DNS record is dropping the ball. The place hosting the actual server and the address/url don't have to be one in the same. Here's a screenshot at 8:13pm central when the site was not locatable through standard DNS lookup. Looks like the address is staying the same. A manaual host file on the PC would fix that assuming the address remains the same. This is absolutely not related to internet traffic. Important note that this is the process by which you computer resolves the user friendly name to an ip address. This screenshot is not the same as actually trying to access the site. The name resolution goes on behind the scene when you click on your favorite bookwark or type www.internetwebsite.com

[WSL91]

What you should see

This is the correct response of properly working DNS query. My DNS server is dnsr1.sbcglobal.net

[WSL91]

Yeah, My son is a cable tech and he said that the heat will affect the internet also do to causing a higher resistance in the wires.

Ask him how that works on Fiber Optic since copper is only good for 333ft.

[BA80]

Don't ask me I'm an auto tech but I know there is a lot more than 333ft of copper wire in a vehicle. Besides, the cable that runs from the pole to the house is copper and it's at least 75ft.

[WSL91]

In most of the US the only place where there is copper is between the home and the local provider. I'm on DSL which is copper phone line which has a very limited distance. From my place it probably doesn't even go as afar as the CO (Central office) but rather hits a switching location where it more than likely jumps onto Fiber Optic to the CO where it without a doubt leaves on Fiber for the feed from a Backbone trunk somewhere.

Cable modems could be traveling farther. The 333 foot is the theoretical distance on copper Ethernet (cable that plugs into your pc). However once it reaches your local Mediacom office its leaving there on Fiber. The data rates needed by the providers are only achievable on Fiber Optic.

Steve is on the right track the biggest problem with the internet is over subscription. The Porn industry actually was responsible for the initial increase in capacity of the internet but has since been outpaced by the media streaming folks. Its so bad All the cell phone providers are eliminating their unlimited data plans and its wiping out all of their capacity as well

The XS11 problem is a name resolution/DNS host provider issue and is not bandwidth related.

[James England]

I'm glad it wasn't just me then! I thought I'd screwed up. I mean, the site even put my website post in the wrong category ...ha ha. (sorry Steve)

I'll just keep persevering. You'll never escape.....

[motoman]

Have the same issue occassionally.......and other addresses also, even though I use WiFi. I just dissconnect and re-connect again.

[BA80]

Ummm...... ....OK.....right.

[cywelchjr]

Happens all the time. Next time it does it I'll check to see what IP it was resolving too etc. Acts like its on dynamic dns. Currently resolves to 64.119.182.118 Addressee has the entire class C space
Next time it happens open a command line and type ipconfig /flushdns (enter) then type nslookup www.xs11.com and see what address it resolves too. The first address given will be the one answering your query, the url/address for the site will be after the Non-authoritative answer:

The IP address hasn't changed in at least a year now, as I've had it hard coded on my computers for at least that long now. But the DNS servers at the hosting site/ISP the server the site runs on tend to crash (I use opendns as my DNS) and if I take the line out of my hosts file when it goes down opendns will actually test for what is wrong and comes back with a DNS server fail at the DNS authority for xs11.com (which is the hosting site) this usually clears up soon. This is usually caused by load either on the DNS servers or on the router they are connected to. Once in a while it will be the server itself, but that is REALLY seldom, maybe 5% of the time, being as this is part of what I do for a living when I work (and part of what I hope to do when I get working again) I've done pretty much as much troubleshooting as I can from remote. Unfortunately I'm not sure how much pressure TC and such can put on the hosting folks to fix the dns server problem, but if they could, that would eliminate 90+% of the problems.

[cywelchjr]

Yeah, My son is a cable tech and he said that the heat will affect the internet also do to causing a higher resistance in the wires.

That's interesting since most cable unless it's really older stuff is fiber optic now which is not affected by temp (below a certain point and above that point is stops working at all). I'll admit that the copper portion will have trouble, but in most modern systems that portion is pretty short haul and the problem is going to be the actual electronics rather than the cabling, as the amount of reduction in data capacity from additional resistance is going to be far less than the amount from noise added by hot amplifiers. The only part of fiber that will get affected by heat would be the amplifiers and conversion gear to convert from fiber to copper.