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			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. 
 
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He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt him it was really quite hypnotic.
 
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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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			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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			You overloaded the DNS with awesome. 
 
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					Originally Posted by  Recurring Villain
					 
				 
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					Originally Posted by  Recurring Villain
					 
				 
				 Could have been a DDoS from someone who didn't like Doctor Who. 
			
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					Originally Posted by  Recurring Villain
					 
				 
				Could have been a DDoS from someone who didn't like Doctor Who. 
			
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 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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