Thread: Web page down (ad server)

Web page down (ad server)

From
Dennis Bjorklund
Date:
Something is wrong with the web site for me. I look at:
 http://www.postgresql.org/developer/

then this is what I see:
 http://www.zigo.dhs.org/~dennis/tmp/dev.png

(everything is there except the main content that is not).

Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the ad server I 
can see the page just fine. Kind of bad it's needed however :-)

I also tried to show the page in opera and it looks the same as in 
firefox.

ps. The cvs server also seems to be down (postgresql.org).

-- 
/Dennis Björklund



Re: Web page down (ad server)

From
"Magnus Hagander"
Date:
[moved to -www]


> Something is wrong with the web site for me. I look at:
>
>   http://www.postgresql.org/developer/
>
> then this is what I see:
>
>   http://www.zigo.dhs.org/~dennis/tmp/dev.png
>
> (everything is there except the main content that is not).

Yikes.


> Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the
> ad server I can see the page just fine. Kind of bad it's
> needed however :-)
>
> I also tried to show the page in opera and it looks the same
> as in firefox.

Intersting. It works fine for me. Did you try multiple times? (Since you
tried a different browser, I assume you did). Could be just one mirror
that's broken - can you check which mirror you're serving off?
Also, does it serve any specific ad? Or does it break with different
ads? (Should be visible from view source)


> ps. The cvs server also seems to be down (postgresql.org).

Can't say anything about that one.

//Magnus

Re: Web page down (ad server)

From
Dennis Bjorklund
Date:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>
> > Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the
> > ad server I can see the page just fine. Kind of bad it's
> > needed however :-)
> >
> > I also tried to show the page in opera and it looks the same
> > as in firefox.
>
> Intersting. It works fine for me. Did you try multiple times? (Since you
> tried a different browser, I assume you did).

Of course. Maybe it's was some dns problem (all the adresses seemed to
resolve, but maybe some adress have been updated but not propagated to all
dns servers, or something. What do I know?).

As I said, I could solve it just fine by using adblock so it's not a
problem for me. I just wanted to tell someone about it.

I did try like 50 times during 30 minutes. Every time it got stuck waiting
on 200.46.208.156.

And guess what, now that I remove the adblock to try some more it seems to
work again. Aaarg, computers drive me crazy :-)

--
/Dennis Björklund


Re: Web page down (ad server)

From
Dennis Bjorklund
Date:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:

> ps. The cvs server also seems to be down (postgresql.org).

Forgot to say in the last mail, but this also works now. Seems like I
should have waited some more before sending the mail. I waited 30 minutes
but I should have waited 40...

-- 
/Dennis Björklund



Re: Web page down (ad server)

From
Martijn van Oosterhout
Date:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:22:18AM +0100, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> Something is wrong with the web site for me. I look at:
>
>   http://www.postgresql.org/developer/

<snip>

> Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the ad server I
> can see the page just fine. Kind of bad it's needed however :-)
>
> I also tried to show the page in opera and it looks the same as in
> firefox.

I had this happen to me a little while ago. Any page related to
postgres would stop halfway. Eventually I tracked it down to it trying
to access a completely different site (probably the ads). I Null routed
that IP and everything came back fine.

It would be possible to format the adblock in such a way that it
doesn't prevent rendering if it isn't there...

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

Re: Web page down (ad server)

From
"Marc G. Fournier"
Date:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
>
>> ps. The cvs server also seems to be down (postgresql.org).
>
> Forgot to say in the last mail, but this also works now. Seems like I
> should have waited some more before sending the mail. I waited 30 minutes
> but I should have waited 40...

Next time it happens, if it happens ... could you run a traceroute on 
postgresql.org?  Everything appears to be fine, and been fine, for ~23 
days now, so it isn't the server crashing/rebooting or anything like that 
... and my network connection from home hasn't drop'd or anything, so my 
route to the server(s) appears to be clean ... am curious if maybe your 
routing was down, and, if so, at what point ...

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