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				December 21, 2006, 1:34 PM
			
			
			
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				Downtime...
			 
 
			
			Hi everyone.  As you can see, the prolonged downtime for the site is now at an end.  That's the good news.  However the bad news is I still don't know what the problem was and I didn't do anything to fix it.  I looked all over and I knew what the problem was but not where it was happening (and I checked the places it had to be happening and it wasn't happening there)!  I'm so confused.  So we're essentially running on hope that whatever happened was a fluke and will not happen again.  Ever.  Because if it does I honestly don't know what to do about it except wait it out again.
		 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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				December 21, 2006, 2:45 PM
			
			
			
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			Probably something to do with your webhost.  Annual maintenance perhaps?  Or just a simple error. 
Either way: Yay!  You're back on!   
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				December 21, 2006, 3:27 PM
			
			
			
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			That's the problem, Jez.  I am my web host.  I run everything off my own server.  And I checked the server -- the problem definitely wasn't there.
		 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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				December 21, 2006, 3:44 PM
			
			
			
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			Well, It's great to be back. I thought I was missing out.   
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				December 21, 2006, 3:55 PM
			
			
			
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			Nice to have you all back.    
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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			I still love you, Danny.
		 
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			I love you too, RV.    
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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				December 22, 2006, 5:30 PM
			
			
			
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			Perhaps connectivity?  Did your ISP have any problems?  Downed phonelines/upped cables?
		 
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			No, the server was physically up as I could access it by IP address.  It was something to do with DNS, although DNS appeared to be working.  Very confuddling.
		 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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				December 23, 2006, 2:35 AM
			
			
			
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			You overloaded the DNS with awesome.
 Could have been a DDoS from someone who didn't like Doctor Who.
 
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					Originally Posted by Recurring Villain  You overloaded the DNS with awesome. |  Heh, thanks RV.
 
	
	
	
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					Originally Posted by Recurring Villain   Could have been a DDoS from someone who didn't like Doctor Who. |  This is my working theory until I hear something better.
		 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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				December 23, 2006, 6:43 PM
			
			
			
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					Originally Posted by Recurring Villain  Could have been a DDoS from someone who didn't like Doctor Who. |  Keff McCulloch heard we were dissing him, and managed to learn teh putermashine in a few hours. He then hacked the site before returning to his mountains of movie scoring work he has to do.
		 
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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			I didn't realize it was Obvious Facetiousness Day.    
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
			
			
			
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