BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: VoxFox
Date: 01 Nov 01 - 08:36 AM

Heaven, I'm in heaven... Went to the local Tim Hortons and got myself an ooooey gooooey chocolate chip COOKIE and I'm so glad it worked. Withdrawal is over for now, whew! *BG* VF

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: JudeL
Date: 01 Nov 01 - 07:44 AM

DEEP JOY ... It's back
I've been unable to access any part of mudcat or it's mirrors (dharma, loki, ragtime) via aol or msn since I got back from holiday on Monday. Was suffering massive mudcat withdrawl ..... 2 weeks without mudcat! AHhhhh..

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: rich-joy
Date: 01 Nov 01 - 03:52 AM

couldn't get into Mudcat as normal, or via loki/dharma/ragtime, or via Google, for over 36 hours - was having withdrawal symptoms!!
But remember 'Catters, what Time of the Year this is : Hallowe'en!!! - when those spirits that wish to make mischief upon the earthplane, can and do!!! Cheers, R-J.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Genie
Date: 01 Nov 01 - 02:08 AM

I just had two days of not being able to access Mudcat through any addresses I had for Mucat or parts thereof, whether via bookmarks or typing them in or going by way of a keyword search that generated web addresses for various parts of Mudcat. I'm using Netscape.

Then today it suddenly worked again. I don't know what happened.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 07:01 PM

Yes good luck, like Bill, I have visions of cables and bits everywhere...

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 06:57 PM

*images in mt head*

"lessee...this black cable goes behind the bookcase, and...wait..where's that 3-prong adapter? Shh...Loki, I KNOW it looks like Ragtime has the best spot on the bureau, but you like the cluttered sopts anyway. Now...Pene, hand me that overload breaker. Hey, we need more beer to face making room for the monitors!"

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Shall
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 06:19 PM

My heart leaped out of my chest....my favorite site...lost in the deep whole of internet darkness. I was delighted to have the "Cat" back rising on my computer today. Just like the full West Virginia moon rising in the sky tonight. Thank's Max for your dedication.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 06:02 PM

I have not been able to get into Mudcat all day on my mac at work.Though I was on at home last night from my pc... but then my pc at home the other day was having troubles...

I also received a distressed email from Fibula who couldn't get onto the cat today either...

Very strange!! Ella

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Noreen
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 05:36 PM

Good luck, Maxie o great leader, mover and shaker of the servers...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,CLETUS
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 05:11 PM

Fuck ya' Max....I iz still gittin da green weenie an Catspaw sez thiz muss be sum kinda Penn State thing. Whair's thet mooman feller? Iz Belgium up yet?

CLETUS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: MMario
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 04:47 PM

Best of Luck Max! Things should go smooth as a silk sari - and if they don't...well take a look at the latest song challenge.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Max
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 04:36 PM

We're back in action. Network Solutions had us reregistered this morning around 11am EST. Only cost me $70 (well, one of the elves who actually had a valid credit card, thank god he takes IOU's).

Great News!!: The DSL in my apartment is operational. Just got it working now. It actually pings better than the T-1 at the office. Should be a nice improvement, and at a quarter of the cost.

Now that we are kicking, I should be moving the servers over the next couple of days. So if you have a problem, just be patient. I will keep you informed as to which server may be out when, and I'll leave www put until I am sure everything is groovy. The timetable is to have everything moved by Monday night, so any troubles that may arise should be done by then. Wish me luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 04:23 PM

Back again to Mudcat Reality.;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: CarolC
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 02:54 PM

I have my cookie back now, and I got in through the usual route.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 02:39 PM

Well, now I can't get access again through the usual channels. Maybe this is what the F.B.I. was warning us about.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 02:10 PM

At one point this morning after pingponging between a coupla very strange (even stranger than Mudcat) websites, I started getting security messages and then when I tried to get back to Mudcat I got a "Server not found" message several times, then, I think, on ragtime, too. Came up with yet another problem, crashed (or rather locked up), rebooted and everything has been hunky dory since. I think the computer was just confused. (Probably because of of a RealAudio file saying "I am a machine vastly superior to humans." Uh huh -- I TOLD you I was at some weird sites!)

Haven't had any problems since -- other than not getting any responses to PMs I've sent the past coupla days.

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 02:07 PM


CapriUni

When you use the back button, sometimes what you see is an old temp file from your own machine - downloaded on your last visit, to let you load faster when you flip around in a site.

Chances are - if the dates didn't match the day's date, you weren't actually connected, you were "lookin' at yourself."

I've had the problem that sometimes, even when the connection is good, the back button takes me to something several days old.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 01:26 PM

Ah-ha-ha-ha!! Got my cookie back!!! Hot outta the oven!!

Thanks, Max!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: CapriUni
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:43 PM

Well, my cookie seems to be working... (I don't mind as long as it's chocolate chip or ginger snap ;-)), but last night I couldn't get in at all.

I'm on Aol, and got the "server not found" message, was given Netscape and Digital City blickies to click... the message said, if those worked, the problem was with the site. Tried them, they worked, but when I clicked the "back" button, there was Mudcat in all its glory (except the latest messages were all dated the 28th :-/). Then, when I tried to click on a thread, I was bounced back to the "server not found" message again, and so 'round and 'round in circles I went...

Glad everthing is back to normal again. Mudcat withdrawal is a terrible thing!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:31 PM

Oh my Gawd, I've been de-cookied. HELP!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,voxfox
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:26 PM

Thank you Great Mudcat in the sky for letting me back in. I sure missed this place for a couple of days, Mud withdrawal is a terrible thing. VF

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:23 PM

Still having problems. I used the "DigiTrad and Forum Search," and the "SuperSearch Results" page came up just fine, but when I click on any links, I get the familiar page, "Can't Find Web Site. Did you click on a link? The site may no longer exist or it may have moved …"

But this was temporary. A little while later, I clicked on the same link and it worked.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:02 PM

I just now got in, I haven't been able to get in at all to any of the 4 servers (www, dharma, loki, ragtime) since, I think, yesterday afternoon, despite trying every few hours. Today, it worked although I didn't do anything different from normal.

I use CompuServe, and I kept getting the message "site not found ... are you sure you spelled the name correctly? etc."

My cookie seems OK.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,CLETUS
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:02 PM

Well I reckin thizzeer place is about like thet Belgium place thet mooman menshunned cuz thingz ar still purty fucked up heer. Catspaw sed ta hell with it an let me uze tha puter. I gess heez trine ta make up fer not callin uz yesterday when Joe Offer stopped an we dint git ta see him.

CLETUS

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:16 AM

Back in business. YUM!;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:12 AM

see!..it let me reset ,,now I have a cookie..(chose White Chocolate Macadamia this time...YUM!)..('guest' gets a stale Oreo with no filling!)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,Bill D...no cookie yet, let them eat cake
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:09 AM

I'll jest set here & wait, lak I usual do...'hit'll all come out in the warsh.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: okthen
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:55 AM

Phew, got in at last, first time since this all started happening, makes me wonder what else I use the computer for tho'.

cheersmedears

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Clifton53
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:52 AM

Everything is back to normal for me, reset cookie also. Couldn't get in at all yesterday and this morning I couldn't access some of the threads, nor could I post.

Clifton

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,mooman (cookieless)
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:52 AM

You can rest assured that The Surreal Kingdom of Belgium will be the last place on Earth where the DNS problem is finally resolved!

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:51 AM

Jeri was a lot of help when I couldn't get regular access. Maybe I'll re-check now and see if the system is working again. I'm working with a MAC up the Kennebec River in Maine if that is significant. I'll have to apologize to my wife whom I've accused of sabotaging my access to Mudcat.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: UB Ed
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:46 AM

My first success in getting in after two days trying...

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,Big Mick, lost in Cookieless land
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:43 AM

I am hopeless. I can't get in and reclaim my cookie. Anyone got some they want to share?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,Tinker (with half her cookies)
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:31 AM

Whoops--- Just jumped me out to the forum..... AOL is still numbers only and cookieless for me...

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:28 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,katlaughing, cookie in the oven?
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:12 AM

The Great Cookie Scare continues here.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 10:11 AM

I'm back in on my normal site name. I've just run around the string and can connect, name or URL, to everything but Loki. I assume maybe he's in transit - or in the shower getting prettied up?

John

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: MMario
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:56 AM

I got my cookie back! and shorty! and search! May the DNS propagate and spread throughout the land!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:54 AM

I got my cookie back!! Whoopee! I'm on Ragtime just now, haven't tried the others.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:51 AM


We have been getting in some with site names, but have been getting disconnects frequently. Of course you only know you've lost it when you try to move around.

Connection with the URL #s seems most reliable, but I note that my cookie needs reset when I come in that way, and I'm (for now) unable to get in to do that.

I have set the URLs as alternates in my favorites - for future use.

As I understand it, your server asks the nearest router if it knows how to connect you. It looks to see if it knows how, and if not, asks the next router down the line, until eventually you get there. If something changes, some routers may retain bad addresses for a certain time - so they give you a bad address and you don't get connected. Every time you send a request, it's pot-luck on which string of routers you go through, so it's a crap shoot until they all get updated.

As I'm not too well informed in this area, I may be acting the bad router - so please don't get too excited out my displanation.

I'm expecting things to be back to normal soon.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Alice
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:28 AM

I had no problem getting in yesterday evening, in the middle of the night (couldn't sleep), and this morning, all with my cookie. I used my bookmarked URL for Mudcat that I've had forever http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm (Netscape, on a Mac).

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,masato sakurai
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 09:25 AM

Lost my cookie, what'll I do?
Lost my cookie, what'll I do?
Lost my cookie, what'll I do?
Skip to my Cookie Monster.

~Masato

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 08:46 AM

Jon, yes, it means the same.

I can't figure out why I can still get in with my cookie, except that my ISP hasn't updated the DNS info. (I'm not complaining.) It would explain why Bat Goddess and Curmudgeon are also cookied, because we use the same ISP.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 08:29 AM

well - had a few minutes last night until (at my best guess) my ISP flushed their DNS cache - back to the cookieless state for me today - but since I'm on a low cab diet anyway - hahahahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,Noreen no-cookie
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 05:58 AM

Well, this IS interesting. Glad to be back. Spoke to several 'catters last night, none of whom could get in. Thanks nutty/jon for the isp number info.

Noreen

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,mooman (cookieless)
Date: 31 Oct 01 - 05:35 AM

Dear John in Hull,

Your "guestlessness" is intriguing me and I'm as interested as you to find how you and a couple of others are getting in as normal. Perhaps you have your favourites stored as IP addresses?

Ah yes...that letter from Network Solutions should not be overlooked. Every two years I nearly do as well but have just "snuck in" with my pament before being cut off!!!

Best regards,

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,CarolC (no cookies)
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 10:56 PM

Boy, you really got me there, GUEST. I can see that I'm no match for you. I'll just go sit in my little corner, and reflect upon my mistake.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,katlaughing
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 10:34 PM

Means the same here, Jon, and was spot on.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 10:32 PM

A when the "best they can" isn't "good enough"....perhaps the DT should find other lodgings.... or you should find a better lover.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone having problems accessing Mudcat
From: GUEST,CLETUS
Date: 30 Oct 01 - 10:23 PM

I bin noen ta do tha same thang my own self. Sumtimes tho it kin wurkout fer ya. Back when me an Paw an the Reg boyz had owr porta-shitter bizniz callt "Crappers On Casters" I dun forgot ta make a paymint on the trayler whut we uzed ta haul em round on. Thay sent two fellers ta take it back ta the trayler place an when thay seen whut it wuz we wuz a totin on it they jus left her rite thar an I got owr paymint stuff fixt all up.

Funny thang tho cuz jes taday we wuz down ta the trayler playz trine ta sell her back to that feller sinz we dint need her no mor an thet sumbitch wernt gonna do it til Paw passed sum reel awful gas in hiz office an then took out a match. Thet feller began ta see it owr way then but I dunno thet he cud reely see atall sinz hiz eyes wuzza watrin reel gud. I gess i cuddent see none too gud either cuz tha check he gave uz wuz fer a hunnert dollarz insted uv a thousand dollarz so I gess we all took a fuckin witha smile. I figger tho it'll be a month ur so bfor tha smell gitz outta' hiz office.

Whut it wuz thet reely made me mad tho wuz while we wuz down thair, Catspaw wuz at home with thet Joe Offer guy he callz Father Joebro an when we got back he wuz gone so we dint git ta say howd do er nuthin. catspaw sez thet Joe is a purty nice feller an he aint so bald yet but it izza gittin thin. Catspaw sez we kin mebbee meet him sum other time.

CLETUS