New Forum Bug Reports

[Rocksurfer]

I did notice that too BM when I last changed my avatar, it didn't immediately change my avatar but it had changed the next time I logged in so I thought it was just my computer since it was about ready to die anyways. I do have to say that with my new computer the board does load much faster, but that may have something to do with going from Me to Vista.

[BigMike]

Well actually for some reason our server is working faster right now.

I made all of the changes that I can, and at a time, it was still very slow.

It seemed that the last time I called them to complain, they must have done something because the forum has been working "ok" for almost a week now.

[Rocksurfer]

  XP Pro on my laptop still loads the same as always.

[Cheesemaker]

Half the time the site loads really slowly on DSL!  Sometimes it will say I timed out trying to go to a post!

[kneedownnate]

I probably see the "timed out" message close to 20 times a day on dial up. 

[ALCORN]

Hey is there a problom with the forum?Take for ever to get on i have DSL.

[mudguts]

Hey is there a problom with the forum?Take for ever to get on i have DSL.

So is mine, I think Geeker is sabotageing the system 

[DTB]

So is mine, I think Geeker is sabotageing the system 

i almost had to go on trail gear to get my shoutbox fix

[BigMike]

Marlin Crawler is experience major technical difficulties from its shared host. A Dedicated Server is being assembled right now in order to cope with the incredible growth rate of our business. Please be patient while these changes are made.

Regards,
BigMike

[MiniSimp]

Marlin Crawler is experience major technical difficulties from its shared host. A Dedicated Server is being assembled right now in order to cope with the incredible growth rate of our business. Please be patient while these changes are made.

Regards,
BigMike

10-4
Had me scared there for a while.

[Willy Mammoth]

10-4
Had me scared there for a while.

Be afraid very afraid.

BTW, I'm still scared.

[Zeppy]

On http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=10579.0
I can't see any pic's. It would be awesome to see where to tap and drill my box at =) thanks.

[MiniSimp]

X2

All hosted pics down.

And....

Database Error
Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator. 

And, "Mark All Messages Read" does not work

[CTENG in KS]

mmmm, I get ta error message after every post too.  But it still posts...just get the error.

[BigMike]

Ok guys,

It takes 24 - 48 hours for the domain name changes to take effect to the internet.

I checked the server at 7:15am this morning and the transfer had still not completed.

Then I checked the server again at about 10:45am and that is when I found out that the transfer had completed.

Therefore, a copy of the forum dating back to the 23rd (I believe) was now up and running, however since the directories had changed, most of the settings on the forum need to be updated.

Sorry it was away when the new server went up. I am now working out the rest of the bugs that might still exist from name changes.

BigMike

[BigMike]

There might be a slight problem with the attachments.....

[MiniSimp]

There might be a slight problem with the attachments.....

Whatchu talkin bout Willis!

[BigMike]

The Attachments are currently disabled. They will be back up shortly.

[unclejpl4x4]

Mike the forums are super fast   

[BigMike]

Thanks, please vote at http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=31485.0 so I can prove to Dave that it a dedicated server was worth the investment!!

[BigMike]

BTW, I now believe that I am able to modify the Spelling list, thus adding words to the spell check engine.


Check this out, reported from the Server:

CPU usage
Last 1 minute    1.28%
Last 5 minutes    0.97%
Last 15 minutes 0.90%

Oh yeah!! We've got a kick ass server baby!!

[79coyotefrg]

Mike    for some reason  Minisimp  cant get on  from his home,  and Diane  cant get on from her work 

[Willy Mammoth]

And I can't get any work done with this dang board up.

[Willy Mammoth]

Mike    for some reason  Minisimp  cant get on  from his home,  and Diane  cant get on from her work 

This sounds like a DNS problem. Is it possible there is more than one domain name server working here? One pointing to the new server and the other pointing to the old server.

What is the IP address for the new server? That would direct to the correct server if used instead of the name.

Can you make a link using the IP and sufix address so it can be tried by the people that can't get on?

[Wermz84]

It can take up to 72 hours for all of the DNS servers to replicate to one another.   DNS is an active distributed data base that is world wide, people in different regions will get request responses from different DNS servers, etc, etc

sorry geeking out.   

[Willy Mammoth]

That's what I was saying. But if you use the IP you bypass the DNS till then.

[Wermz84]

You are absolutely right..   


It is very helpfull when experiencing DNS issues..  Problem is, i can never remember the ips of my favorite sites.     

[BigMike]

Ok, I believe the attachments are back in order. Can someone please check their avatar and attachments to confirm this, thankyou.

Regarding the DNS Name Change: Last night after I got home from class, I logged on to find that there were only 21 people online and the last post had been made on the 23rd. I completely freaked out because I thought the company who is hosting our server was still installing software on our machine and had maybe overwritten our database with the old copy from our old shared service.

After inspecting some things, I realized that the settings were for the old server, and could only be working if I was actually viewing the website through the old server.

Sure enough any changes made to the files on our new dedicated server did not appear on what I was viewing as www.marlincrawler.com, and after examining our domain name information, which was current, the only logical explanation was that I had somehow jumped into the internet in a spot where our name server had not been updated yet.

The strange thing is that my father's computer would pull up the current site, that had over 300 users online at that time. We both were using the same wireless connection through the same home network, and yet one computer was viewing the old site while the other computer was viewing the new site.

Anyways, I knew that it would just need some more time, so off to sleep I went. I am on right now just to check if indeed the name has changed, and sure enough, this is the website from our new dedicated server.

Regards,
BigMike

[MiniSimp]

Ok, I believe the attachments are back in order. Can someone please check their avatar and attachments to confirm this, thankyou.

Confirmed.

After inspecting some things, I realized that the settings were for the old server, and could only be working if I was actually viewing the website through the old server.

That must be my deal, log on from work no problem, but get shot to the admin log on at home. Guess I just have to wait for the update?

[Trompies]

I can not see my PM's I have one or two nut can not access them.  Pop up stopper etc. is not the problem, please see what you can do for me.

Thanks Tom

Since this new forum software is still under development by its publishers there might be a few bugs lurking around. So if you happen to notice something that is not working correctly, please post it here and I will see about fixing it.

Thanks in advance,
BigMike