Hello everyone,

Last night I couldn't get on the Equipped to Survive forum. Did anyone else have this problem? It was strange. I could get to every lame site (weather network, drudge, google, mainstream news etc) but I couldn't get on a single survival forum/blog. I tried from two computers (both on the same ISP). I could get on my wife's wedding forum but nothing survival related. (I got the shakes and cold sweats of withdrawal. C'est horrible!)

Sites I couldn't get on to included:

-Equipped to Survive forum
-http://www.aussurvivalist.com/forum/
-http://www.survivalblog.com/
-http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/
-http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
and others.


It seemed like a very selective outage. I was wondering if someone was filtering the word "survival".

Likely just a local thing but I wanted to touch base, in the event that it wasn't.

-NIM

What time was it. Until about 2200 CST I had no problems.

I had a problem this morning around 0800 central. Seems to work fine now.
Just the Govt filters getting a little uppity.

It was, if I recall correctly, sometime after 7pm (EST) until 10:30pm (Perhaps later but I went to bed).

-NIM

Seems there is a problem. Either that or someone caused a topic to be unable to be looked up in the database. However, it still shows on the active topics.

No SQL errors, and I didn't bounce the server in the last 24 hours (ETS main server was bounced on Sunday for security updates, but it's a separate instance from the forum server).

I wasn't able to access the forums for a few minutes around 3ish EST.

Remember this web page: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

It lets you check an internet address to see if it is working for this site.

-Tommy

It did that to me earlier today.
I thought it might be browser issue but both FF and IE were unable to find the server, so I assumed it was down for an upgrade.

The forum was unreachable last night and a few times earlier this afternoon when I tried to access it.