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Posted on Saturday 21st January 2006 at 23:56 by Tiddles

Something bizarre happened to our host this afternoon, which has resulted in corruption to some of our data.

The most notable victim we've found so far is the data from our actual forum posts. I've manually fixed several serious errors in this regard, but there will continue to be unusual corruption in some old messages unless we restore an earlier version. Sorry about that.

If you spot anything else anywhere on the site which appears to be corrupt somehow, such as obviously massively inaccurate data (more so than our usual standards anyway!), odd symbols in text descriptions, or apparent programming code leaking out onto the visible site, please report to us as soon as you can where it is and what's wrong with it. We're still not sure how much this might've affected.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Comments

Hamedo

Comment 1: 2006-01-23 16:53

I was wondering what the bloddy hell was causing all the commotion.

Thanks for the update.

Rangers51

Comment 2: 2006-01-23 16:59

Quote (Hamedo @ 23rd January 2006 11:53)

I was wondering what the bloddy hell was causing all the commotion.

Thanks for the update.

What commotion is that? As far as we could tell, we caught most of the corruption before anyone could really notice a whole lot - so if you saw something that we haven't yet, please let us know so we can work on it.

Hamedo

Comment 3: 2006-01-23 17:58

The General Forums was giving me a "page cannot be displayed" for a few minutes, around 11:50am EST. It's fine now, and no other links I've tried have shown anything amiss.

Rangers51

Comment 4: 2006-01-27 16:38

Quote (Hamedo @ 23rd January 2006 12:58)

The General Forums was giving me a "page cannot be displayed" for a few minutes, around 11:50am EST. It's fine now, and no other links I've tried have shown anything amiss.

That error, as well as many others you might all have been seeing, is due to the SQL data that powers the forums being corrupted. Once one of the main tables of forum data gets screwed up, it starts randomly breaking things.

The forums are going to be closed after I post this message, so that I can get a current backup. Anything after the time I make this post MIGHT be lost if we have to suddenly move to a new server, but I'll do my best to stop that from happening.

strikerbolt

Comment 5: 2006-01-31 20:59

Quote (Rangers51 @ 27th January 2006 11:38)

Quote (Hamedo @ 23rd January 2006 12:58)

The General Forums was giving me a "page cannot be displayed" for a few minutes, around 11:50am EST. It's fine now, and no other links I've tried have shown anything amiss.

wow, its good to see the site again. I couldn't get to it for a few weeks...

I was having the same error message for the longest time

Glenn Magus Harvey

Comment 6: 2006-02-01 00:25

I will admit that "CoN is down" started to become a regular expectation.

Many thanks to Rangers and the rest of the admins, and boo to stinky website-services.

Barrylocke

Comment 7: 2006-02-01 12:12

2nd time that it's happened for me since I first came on. The 1st one was longer, for me I couldn't get on for three days!

Rangers51

Comment 8: 2006-02-24 16:58

By the way, all, we have still been receiving reports of some weird DNS related outages from time to time. You'll know if this is happening to you if you are getting errors in your browser that say something like "cavesofnarshe.com can not be found."

Make note of this post, because obviously you will not be able to re-read it if this happens to you.

If this happens to you, the best thing you can do is follow these steps:

1. Open a command prompt. In WinXP, this can be done by going to "Start," selecting "Run", and entering "cmd" and pressing Enter.
2. Type "nslookup www.cavesofnarshe.com" and press Enter.
3. Type "tracert www.cavesofnarshe.com" and press Enter.

If you get errors in either of these, email Climhazzard and let us know immediately. We've been doing server tweaks to try to solve this problem, and we think we may finally have it now, so definitely let us know if this happens to you again.

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