Gremlins are like that, when you go looking for them, they hide ;P

It has been behaving for me today as well, perhaps someone fixed something....

Good work papaw! (Whatever you did, bugging tech support, dancing naked in the full moon....)

I did nothing! Nothing , I tell ya!

Well Papaw keep on doing it.

I guess Papaw needs to start doing nothing again, my AOL access died again.......... Keeps trying to load and finally times out. Crap

Quote from: Lewill2 on December 02, 2011, 07:46:18 AM
I guess Papaw needs to start doing nothing again, my AOL access died again.......... Keeps trying to load and finally times out. Crap

If I use the AOL browser I can't connect to ToolTalk. IF I use regular IE it's good. It is also fast.

PS I just got the "timed out" message when I tried to post using IE.

I use Firefox and have none of the issues above.

I have never had time outs before no matter how long I took "comleting" a  post. But last couple of posts have timed out! I have found that by refreshing the page,then clicking "try again box" it Posts!? Something has changed?
Graeme

We are not sure what is going on. It comes and goes, so it may be a server issue. I hope Go-Daddy straightens it out.

I use firefox and, other than some slightly slow loading sometimes, no problems.

I sometimes have a page take 15 or 20 seconds to load, but not often, not even every day. Once in a great while, I'll get a page saying 'papawswrench not available' or something to that effect, but that happens even less frequently than the delays.
I have a cable connection and use Firefox. I haven't experienced any timeouts while posting and can't think of any other problems I've had visiting the site. No post timeouts and I do sometimes start posts and take a long time to finish while I hunt down the picture I want to use. I'm just offering the info for comparison purposes.
Security software and Internet Explorer are likely suspects. I agree with the Firefox suggestions also.

>Once in a great while, I'll get a page saying 'papawswrench not available'

There are DNS issues, I don't kno if that's what's aggrivating the forum software tho...

Non-authoritative answer:
www.papawswrench.com    canonical name = papawswrench
papawswrench.com
        primary name server = ns71.domaincontrol.com

--
>  ns71.domaincontrol.com
Server:  ns71.domaincontrol.com
Address:  216.69.185.46

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    ns71.domaincontrol.com
Address:  216.69.185.46
--

This isn't helping...

rusty, I have no idea what all that is supposed to mean. Can you break it down a little? What is it that you are pointing out?
I do see that the DreamHost donation link is dead.

We are not hosted on Dreamhost any longer. That is where the meltdown of earlier this year originated. We have been on GoDaddy since the restart.

> I have no idea what all that is supposed to mean.

Well, it was more for the benefit of whoever papaw may have looking....

but, ok

Short version:

:DNS request timed out.
:    timeout was 2 seconds.

Somewhere a server is configured to give up after waiting only 2 seconds,
this is far to short , it *very often* takes more than 2 seconds for something to happen
on the internet. When that machine gives up after two seconds, the web page you are trying to look at fails to work...

>Non-authoritative answer

This is more complicated, and more serious, the server that is supposed to know where papawswrench.com is on the internet, is claiming that some other server is responsible for that information. This can cause all kinds of strange and bizzare things to happen...

(DNS is kind of the address book of the internet, when you want to get to Joe's Pizza, you ask someone and they tell you it's at 71 main street. When you want to get to papawswrench a machine on the internet tells your computer where it is on the internet , that machine is the nameserver...)

I'm having a totally different problem.  When anyone  posts an attachment and I click on it, to enlarge, it so my tired old eyes can make out details, all I get is columns of numbers.  Does that have anything to do with the server, or is it in my set?