The forums aren't up at night?

[Rocky]

I've been trying to get onto the forums at night and they don't come up... is this planned?

 

[pirateghost]

What time is 'night' for you? I am on central time zone and it works for me until around 1 when I go to bed

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[Nindustries]

I didn't really experienced that yet, and sometimes I really stay up late.. (GMT +1)

 

[Rocky]

Interesting - I can't get in anytime after 5 PM Mountain - I tried at 7:30 AM the last few days and unable to get in - but after 8 AM works fine... this is true of both work and home.

 

[Nindustries]

Scheduled maintenance, maybe? No idea

 

[pirateghost]

It's definitely working after 5pm your time. Sounds like DNS issues or routing issues

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[cyberjock]

Normally it should be up. But some people like to do things to the forum at night per USA time zones or during business hours. They shouldn't normally be down for too long.

 

[Rocky]

Same problem last night... strange

 

[pirateghost]

Same problem last night... strange

I was on last night. You can also check post times to see when people are posting and verify it is indeed up.

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[gpsguy]

If you have a smartphone check the forum using your data plan (not wifi).

You might try changing your DNS entires to use opendns as a test.




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[pirateghost]

Do you use the same ISP for work as your home? Do the networks at both locations use the ISP DNS? Try this website tonight http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and see if forums.freenas.org is down or if its just you. I am willing to bet money on it being a DNS issue. You need to point to OpenDNS as gpsguy mentioned, or use Google's DNS for your router to do lookups. I can assure you the forums dont get turned off overnight every night. I cant think of the last time the forums were actually down for any reason, so you have a problem either on your end or between you and the datacenter the website is hosted.

 

[Rocky]

I'll try the suggestions on DNS servers (I don't have a smartphone) - at home we use Centurylink - at work it's Optimum (or whatever the current name is - used to be Bresnan - at any rate it's a cable company).

 

[DJ9]

Well, Bresnan was bought out by Comcast.

 

[Rocky]

Interesting - it's still behaving same way. It's not a DNS problem as I changed to Opendns.org with same result. It's not a local network problem as it's a home network and nothing changes on configuration... definitely a network problem within Centurylink as far as I can tell...