I hope this is the correct area to post this 'cos I am fuming 

For the last two nights I have not been able to access any of the bermudasucks web pages. Even doing a google search and opening the returns does not help. I can access it at work (bad admission) but on both my home computers (vista and XP) all I get is:-

Database Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /home/content/s/u/c/sucker/html/forum/Sources/Security.php
Line: 272Database Error: MySQL server has gone away
File: /home/content/s/u/c/sucker/html/forum/Sources/Load.php
Line: 2007
Warning: Unknown(): A session is active. You cannot change the session module's ini settings at this time. in Unknown on line 0

I have not been able to stalk anyone for the last two nights, and it's frustrating


On a serious note if anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated.

I should have thought before writing the question, but I won't be able to read the replies and find out if any of the links that have been posted by UE (or Mike through a pm) as I can't access it at home 

Guess I am going to send myself a few emails today.......

I did notice in trying to google the problem that GoDaddy was mentioned as a possible issue.

I tried "pinging" the website as well, and got an "okay" response, but as I am a complete doughnut on computers I ain't got a clue.

More interested if others were having the same problem, but unless they are accessing from different locations they won't be able to post 

It is beyond jnc also, however I have the PM's he has sent me and I am saving them for later

I did notice that the RG website was slow to open last night, and wondered if the problem was with either Logic (my ISP) or Cablevision (my carrier)

Perhaps they know who I am and want me to stop posting

I say, old boy, was that a challenge to my professional acumen? :-)

Noel

Aha, you've spotted Doc Bruin's evil scheme... he's obviously not just trying to shut the newspapers down you know? 

^S_ev_en^T

@ jnc - is it really all that likely that JJ and I picked up the same piece of malware? Due to my understandable internet paranoia my network here is embarrassingly packed up to the monitor's eyeball with firewalls, anti-this and anti-that (not kidding either)... I'm using Firefox 3.05 beta on a very stable Windows XP PC machine, not had this problem before...  seems unlikely...  totally weird!

That does have a lower probability quotient, I concede. (But it still might not have a tail... :-) If it's software on your machine that's the cause, a toolbar or something like that in common is more likely.


I don't put much faith in anti-virus software. Problem is they mostly only recognize known viruses.

Firewalls are a useful, albeit limited, arrow in one's quiver. (If you happen to go to a web page that has malware embedded, it will fly right past the firewall... because you asked for it!) I gather port-scanning is now no longer where the action is anyway... it's now embedded malware on web pages.


Useful data. JJ, what are you using for a browser - Internet Exploder, or what?


That's OK, I'm mostly just thinking out loud (although Mike et al can follow my musings).

Noel

Interesting... one more common factor struck off.


But it used to work fine, and then all of a sudden, both machines stopped working, at the same time?

I'm definitely leaning towards a buggy transparent cache at your ISP. Sounds like SevenT's might have had the same product, but quickly gotten a clue, and turned it off, or fixed the misconfiguration or whatever it was. If you know exactly when it started happening, you might give your ISP a ding...



The one thing that's sure not to help... well, OK, maybe it'll help reduce your blood pressure! :-) Computers: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em! :-)

Mildly amusing story: you know that scene in "Empire Strikes Back" (I think it is) where they go to power up the Millenium Falcon, and it doesn't go, so Han Solo gets up and whacks the wall hard in a particular spot, and off it goes? First time I saw that movie I was with a couple of people from the MIT Computer Science Lab, and we about fell out of our seats laughing. See, one of the main timesharing mainframes there had the exact same thing: a sticky main power relay. So you'd turn off the power switch on the front console to power it down and... nothing would happen! So you'd walk around the back, open a door, reach in and give the right box an almighty whack in the exact right spot, and.... ZZZZzzzzrrrrrmmmm. Our amusement was vast. Warning: Don't do this at home, we were trained experts! :-)

Noel

Our illustrious administrator wins an extra Karma point from me.

Got in the door, and followed the basis of jnc posts, disconnect power down and start again. I had also deleted all the cookies, history etc and still the same problem.

Mike allegedly sent me a different web address for bdasucks so i tried that. yup it opened up a slightly different page but at least it worked. Closed it and tried UE suggested link (which is the one I usually use) and that worked as well. Closed that and tried my own link and that worked.

Went next door onto the XP machine (which hadn't worked) and lo and behold that works too.

I am assuming that from what I read that something was being pointed in the wrong direction and just needed to be shown where to go. Once it knew that then problem solved.

You lot had better watch out tonight................ I feel some secret stalking