One of many threads about PBW outage issues

[geoschmo]

Till I can get home and figure out what's going on.

Geoschmo

[ March 23, 2004, 16:46: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Rollo]

thanks for the notice.

now hurry and finish your work quickly, so you'll be home before the game that I am in is auto-processed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

[geoschmo]

Actually, the "under construction" message I am getting when I try to get to the website tells me that processing is probably stopped.

[Mephisto]

I have no problem at all with the server. Working fine for me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

[Spoo]

Works for me too.

[Captain Kwok]

I also have no problems.

[geoschmo]

You all are having no problems because we got it back up before you tried it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

It was down for a bit, but we rebooted and everything looks ok now.

Geoschmo

[David E. Gervais]

'Timing is everything', or so they say. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Fyron]

Uh oh Narf, now Geo has been assimilated by the collective! Ahh!!!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Something Must Be Done!

[Fyron]

Well I stole some cells from species 8472 and upgraded my biocruiser with them, so I am safe from the Borg. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Paul1980au]

Yes time for the email paypal address to be put up so we can donate cash for the sites running or send in youre donations of RAM so it can be upgraded.

Off to do some promotion

[Atrocities]

Heart stopping news. Then not!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well I stole some cells from species 8472 and upgraded my biocruiser with them, so I am safe from the Borg. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">and i'm a cartoon character, so no change will stay more than two episodes unless it's part of an art upgrade.

i just love having near-invulnerability. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Fyron]

They could add borg drone features in an art upgrade!

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Paul1980au:
Yes time for the email paypal address to be put up so we can donate cash for the sites running or send in youre donations of RAM so it can be upgraded.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Grrrrr, I wish paypal would stop changing what ever it is they are changing that's breaking that. Anyway, I have updated the link in my signature now. It should work for donations again.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

They could add borg drone features in an art upgrade! <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">yeah, but my creative side is in charge of that and it'd fry their poor circuits. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ February 03, 2004, 00:29: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Paul1980au]

Thanks for updating that link - that said paypal is just upgrading its security and other features - its good but you need to keep a close eye on it.

[tesco samoa]

back down again

[Grandpa Kim]

Yup, 'fraid so, down. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Randallw]

I can't get PBW at the moment. I'm just posting this message so i can see what time everyone else has posted to see if their Posts are current (time zone difference)
ok. my post is 6 minute after the Last one.

[ February 03, 2004, 03:59: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[Paul1980au]

Yep its down - that memory is needed pronto so send that and youre paypal contributions so we can make the PBW SEIV site more user friendly.

[Fyron]

Umm... I highly doubt that the memory has anything to do with it, and it certainly will do nothing in regards to the user friendliness of PBW.

[Karibu]

I wonder how much cash Geo would need to get a totally "state of the art" server? Considering, that he would propably buy normal computer with W2K server OS, I would say the hardware would cost no more than 2000€ (or 2000$) + the cost of the OS.

[Ruatha]

Getting nag mails, have returnedd home and timelimits are running out.
But it doesn't accept my mailed turns it seems, I still get nag mails. And no server on-line.....

[Vezzra]

This is what I get when I try to access the PBW site:

============

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@pbw.cc and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

============

[trooper]

Another PBW breakdown ???
So I've got nothing to do during my lunch ?

Bouhouhou... why so much hate ?

[Atrocities]

Yup it appears to be "Under Construction" at the moment.

[geoschmo]

Sorry guys, we are down. Not sure what the problem is yet. Gonna be down for today at least until I can get with Lazarus and figure out what's causing it.

Geoschmo

[Atrocities]

Do you think it is a Hardware issue, or a software one?

Could someone have hacked PBW and screwed it up? Or did it catch a virus? Any water drip on the Server? A power surge or sudden impact?

First try restarting it.
If that fails, follow the HP advice line and kick the computer repeatedly until toe hurts.
If that fails, load shot gun and shot PC once.

Then go buy new HP PC.

[Vezzra]

Auto turns already off? Deadline for NGC3 is in 15 hours, and I haven't uploaded... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Or is PBW down completely, so game turns won't be executed anyway?

[tesco samoa]

it will be down.... So do not worry. Geo is very considerate of the PBW community, even in times of crisis. A very good system administrator

[Cipher7071]

Well that explains why I get an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR ( ~ 9:45 EST, Feb 3 ). At least I knew where to come for the straight information. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

So, is it getting to be time to pull a few dollars out and send them?

[Roanon]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
it will be down.... So do not worry. Geo is very considerate of the PBW community, even in times of crisis. A very good system administrator <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">YES! One of the best. Thanks for everything, Geo.

Just has to be said from time to time.

[Asmala]

Originally posted by Randallw:
I can't get PBW at the moment. I'm just posting this message so i can see what time everyone else has posted to see if their Posts are current (time zone difference)
ok. my post is 6 minute after the Last one. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You can change the timezone (->my profile->View/Update Profile) so the message times are correct for you.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Asmala:
You can change the timezone (->my profile->View/Update Profile) so the message times are correct for you. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sweet! As a moderator I probably should have already known about that, but oh well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Thanks Asmala. That eliminates a source of frustration for me anyway.

[ February 03, 2004, 14:57: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Fyron]

It is a brand new feature added in the Last forum upgrade. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Cirvol]

<--- is ub4r l337 hax0rz and did white hat hax0rzing job with geo's site http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[geoschmo]

All hail Cirvol, a gentleman and a scholar, and a veritable database wizard. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

PBW is back up and running. There may still be some minor complications. We are still running down a couple loose ends, but the server is up, accepting prompts and running turns.

Automatic turn processing will remain off for the the immediete future so people can get caught up on their games.

Geoschmo

[Atrocities]

What was the problem?

[geoschmo]

One of the database files got corrupted.

[Thermodyne]

Hmm, we've had a rash of that at work. Seems the latest antivirus patch went after some db files as if they were virus files.

[tesco samoa]

up again

[ February 04, 2004, 00:50: Message edited by: tesco samoa ]

[geoschmo]

Auto turns are off. Right now the server is shut down, so it woulnd't matter anyway. But once we get it back up the auto turns will stay off so people get a chance to catch up. There is a possibility some turns ran Last night. If that happened to you, have your game owner contact us once things are working again. We can set the turn back.

[tesco samoa]

down we have a pbw server down

[Ragnarok]

Confirmed, it is down.

[geoschmo]

Ok, should be back up now. http://seiv.pbw.cc/ will take you to a temporary redirect page. There's a message and a link there to the IP for the server. http://69.3.206.249/ ,or you can just go straight there if you prefer. A couple of days and we'll get all the ISP stuff straightned out hopefully and you'll be able to reach it straight fomr it's old address.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Ok, should be back up now. http://seiv.pbw.cc/ will take you to a temporary redirect page. There's a message and a link there to the IP for the server. http://69.3.206.249/ ,or you can just go straight there if you prefer. A couple of days and we'll get all the ISP stuff straightned out hopefully and you'll be able to reach it straight fomr it's old address. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yup, tis up and running now. Thanks for the quick fix, Geo.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i seem to have lost my password, could you send it to my email address, Geo? thanks.

[geoschmo]

Narf, put your username in the box and hit the "Get Password" button. PBW will send it to your email automatically.

Geoschmo

[narf poit chez BOOM]

thanks.

[David E. Gervais]

Narf, isn't your password "Cheese"? And if so, how could you forget it?

LOL http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[mottlee]

6:34 EST Down!

[Phoenix-D]

Not down. DNS is down, but the IP works.

EDIT:
http://69.3.206.249/

[ February 09, 2004, 22:44: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

no, i use semi-random letters and numbers.

it's beyond me why anyone would use an easily-guessable word.

[geoschmo]

Ok, it's gonna be down for a bit now while I rearrange some stuff.

Geoschmo

[Cipher7071]

Right. 10:45 PM EST and still down. Oh well, there's always tomorrow...I think. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[geoschmo]

Or today. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Ok, back up. New IP address. http://24.145.157.194/

You can click that directly, or follow the link on teh redirect page. Tommorow morning sometime the DNS should get redirected and things will be back to normal.

THanks for your patience.

Geoschmo

[nesrall]

Can it be confirmed PBW is down again?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by nesrall:
Can it be confirmed PBW is down again? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm getting in ok. Doesn't mean it wasn't down for a bit when you tried before though. Try again.

Geoschmo

[Atrocities]

Geo I can not get in without the IP address. The http://pbw.cc link goes to the choice page then a 404

[Parasite]

I just tried, no luck.

http://seiv.pbw.cc/graphic/index.jsp

It was not working earlier today as well.

IP direct works, just not the "seiv" link in my Favorites.

[ February 10, 2004, 16:18: Message edited by: Parasite ]

[Unknown_Enemy]

just went in,

working fine for me with the IP adress.

[geoschmo]

You guys can't go direct to your graphic and text links that you have stored.

If you go to http://seiv.pbw.cc/ it will redirect you to a page with a link to the new ip. That is http://24.145.157.194/

Or you can go direct to http://24.145.157.194/

Or you can go to http://24.145.157.194/graphic/index.jsp
or
http://24.145.157.194/text/index.jsp
if you prefer.

The seiv.pbw.cc isn't pointing to the new IP yet. Once that gets done, sometime today, everything will be back to normal.

Geoschmo

[ February 10, 2004, 16:18: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[geoschmo]

And now the DNS is starting to propgate back to the server. I can reach it direct with http://seiv.pbw.cc now. If you can't yet, you will be able to soon.

[PvK]

Is PBW unable to send email at this point? I generated a new turn, but received none of the usual emails that used to come with that.

PvK

[geoschmo]

It may be having some difficulty. I had a guy tell me he couldn't get an email with his password. I'll have to check that out.

[geoschmo]

Ok, email should be working now.

By the way, can someone give RTC a try and verify for me that it's working?

Geoschmo

[Ragnarok]

Going to seiv.pbw.cc isn't working for me. But I opened up RTC and it connects just fine and shows all of my games.

[parabolize]

http://seiv.pbw.cc/graphic/index.jsp works now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
Going to seiv.pbw.cc isn't working for me. But I opened up RTC and it connects just fine and shows all of my games. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ok, well the only way that makes sense is if your browser is reading fmom Cache or something, since RTC connects to the seiv.pbw.cc as well. Unless you put the ip in the tools/options. If you did, then it's just that the DNS hasn't gotten around to you yet. If you've got seiv.pbw.cc in RTC tools/options, then you need to get your browser to refresh.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Ok, well the only way that makes sense is if your browser is reading fmom Cache or something, since RTC connects to the seiv.pbw.cc as well. Unless you put the ip in the tools/options. If you did, then it's just that the DNS hasn't gotten around to you yet. If you've got seiv.pbw.cc in RTC tools/options, then you need to get your browser to refresh. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's what I was thinking so I refreshed it and still nothing. RTC is set up using the seiv.pbw.cc address to connect to.

Ok, I just tried using IE to open it and it works fine. But refreshing Mozilla Firebird is still not working. I may have to clear the Cache manually.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

when i try to upload my koth turn, pbw wants to download 'gameupload' to me.

[geoschmo]

Is this problem still going on Narf? When did it start? What browser are you using. Have you tried the graphic and the Text UI's?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i'm not sure when it started, i think i had it with the P&N game to, but it dissapeared after a while. it dissapeared sometime Last night, because i just uploaded the koth turn(please come back, David) and it worked. i opened up 'gameupload', something i should have done sooner and got this 'Cannot execute player command: Filename uploaded was unexpected; expecting: kothnva_0001.plr', which is exactly what it was named.

[Asmala]

Hmm, looks like there is some memory problems in PBW server.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Asmala:
Hmm, looks like there is some memory problems in PBW server. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ya, I saw that too. Kicked it. Looks better now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Asmala]

Good, thanks.

[AMF]

GeoSchmo,

I am uploading a replacement turn for "Space Empires 101" game on PBW, and I keep getting the following error:

Cannot execute player command: Could not read input: java.io.IOException: Posted content length of 1248344 exceeds limit of 1048576

The actual GAM file is pretty big...could this be the cause? (it's 1219 Kb)...

Help?

Thanks,

Alarik

[geoschmo]

yep. I sent you an email.

[AMF]

huh. Hotmail must be slow tonight. Still no show.

Originally posted by geoschmo:
yep. I sent you an email. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[AMF]

If I zip it up, will that solve it...I'll try that...

(still no email on my hotmail. %*(#%(*$# microsoft!)

thanks,

Alarik

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by alarikf:
huh. Hotmail must be slow tonight. Still no show.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by geoschmo:
yep. I sent you an email. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Its Friday night and Geo probably has a few hot dates lined up the evening.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by alarikf:
%*(#%(*$# microsoft!) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And they have no clue that they are clueless.

[AMF]

well, that seemed to work. I should've thought of that first off...

thanks,

Alarik

Originally posted by alarikf:
If I zip it up, will that solve it...I'll try that...

(still no email on my hotmail. %*(#%(*$# microsoft!)

thanks,

Alarik <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[AMF]

This is what I'm getting:

Failed to connect
The host 24.145.157.194 could not be contacted. If this persists, you should contact the administrator of the remote site.


thanks,

ALarik

Originally posted by Cipher7071:
I just got the same error. It was up half an hour ago. It usually doesn't seem to stay down long with this error.

edit: 8:55 AM Monday, Feb 23 <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[geoschmo]

Ya, it's down. Working on it.

[Roanon]

Works fine for me.

[geoschmo]

Yes, it's back up now.

[Edward]

PBW down again? Can not access the site even using the IP number.

[Cipher7071]

I just got the same error. It was up half an hour ago. It usually doesn't seem to stay down long with this error.

edit: 8:55 AM Monday, Feb 23

[ February 23, 2004, 13:00: Message edited by: Cipher7071 ]

[Roanon]

Seems to be down again - anyone else having problems?

[geoschmo]

Yes, it's down. Working on it.

[Pablo]

I thought it was only me...

[geoschmo]

Should be back up now.

Geoschmo

[Cipher7071]

I knew I'd find this thread here this morning. If it's of any value, I got the error at 8:58 A.M. EST, March 2.

edit: Ah, there we go: music to our ears Geo.

[ March 02, 2004, 13:39: Message edited by: Cipher7071 ]

[Roanon]

Great, Geo, really fast fix. Thanks.

[Cipher7071]

Mar 8, 7:28 AM EST. It's down.

[Roanon]

Up for me. Guess it was another super-fast fix http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[AMF]

As of 11:01 EST March 13, looks like it's down...

thanks,

Alarik

[AMF]

Owp, now it's back up...

Originally posted by alarikf:
As of 11:01 EST March 13, looks like it's down...

thanks,

Alarik <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[Slynky]

Just checking...having a problem getting to the site.

[Slynky]

Working now. Go figure.

[Baron Grazic]

Geo fixed it, and posted so, in the other thread.
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=011251

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
Geo fixed it, and posted so, in the other thread.
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=011251 <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks, Baron...I guess I just assumed anyone having problems would use this thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Aiken]

Is it down again? I can't get to seiv.pbw.cc since 12PM GMT. http://69.81.92.70/ is reachable though.
Also where were no mails with turns as well as turn confirmations during Last 16 hours.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by aiken:
Is it down again? I can't get to seiv.pbw.cc since 12PM GMT. http://69.81.92.70/ is reachable though.
Also where were no mails with turns as well as turn confirmations during Last 16 hours. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't understand what you are asking. What do you mean down again? You have the new IP address so you obviously read the other thread. Nothing has changed since then. seiv.pbw.cc is still unreachable because the DNS has still not been changed. But you can still get to it direct at that IP address. I stickeyed the other thread. It's up at the top of the page.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=011182

[Aiken]

Sorry Geoschmo, I've found this ip through search and didn't draw attention to post date http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Also I didn't notice the sticky tread on top of the page. That's why I posted this. Now I see my mistake.

[geoschmo]

Yeah, I kind of guessed that's what happened after my post. No problem. Too many threads floating around. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Randallw]

I just sent in a turn to PBW, then I went to the front page to move to another game. PBW is now unavailable.
The outage from a few days ago was while I was away, so I am assuming the adress i get these days is the new one.Anyway I've tried my favourites link and the new adress link down the page and it doesn't work.

Edit: I swear I checked before using this thread. Now I notice a PBW status thread. aaaahhh.

[ March 27, 2004, 09:46: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[Joachim]

Originally posted by Randallw:
I just sent in a turn to PBW, then I went to the front page to move to another game. PBW is now unavailable.
The outage from a few days ago was while I was away, so I am assuming the adress i get these days is the new one.Anyway I've tried my favourites link and the new adress link down the page and it doesn't work.

Edit: I swear I checked before using this thread. Now I notice a PBW status thread. aaaahhh. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ditto, down for me.

[Randallw]

Originally posted by Joachim:
Ditto, down for me. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">thank goodness for that. Whenever I can't get PBW I go psycho. Is it the site, or my computer acting up? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif