I've told our hosting provider of the issue today

Seem to be back to normal now (7:45 pm).

yup all is good.

Anyone else having intermittent problems today? Long loads seems to come and go.

me too, off an on all day

I've noticed some very slow page loading during the last fifteen minutes

Only gotten a couple slow downs, and they weren't terrible, 10 seconds or so.

Really? I've had several 1 minute plus loads, although it is much better now.

I've not been on that much today, so I may have been lucky and just missed the bad hangs.

Getting all kinds of hands and even a couple time outs (lost a reply) the past 10 or 15 minutes (around noon EST).

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\DOCUME~1\JOSHHI~1>tracert www.dvdtalk.com

Tracing route to www.dvdtalk.com [66.7.164.226]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms GE-4-7-ur02.rockville.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.
132.9]
4 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms te-9-1-ur01.rockville.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.
129.153]
5 9 ms 11 ms 9 ms te-9-1-ur01.chillum.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.12
8.217]
6 10 ms 9 ms 16 ms te-9-1-ur01.michiganave.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.8
7.128.210]
7 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms te-9-1-ur01.benning.dc.bad.comcast.net [68.87.12
8.165]
8 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-7-2-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.
87.128.174]
9 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms POS-2-3-cr01.ritchieroad.md.pvcomcast.net [68.87
.16.165]
10 11 ms 11 ms 14 ms 12.118.122.9
11 13 ms 13 ms 14 ms tbr2-p011701.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.8.30]
12 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms 12.123.8.109
13 50 ms 13 ms 15 ms att-gw.washdc.gblx.net [192.205.32.42]
14 46 ms 44 ms 45 ms pos2-0-0-622M.ar4.DAL1.gblx.net [67.17.70.206]
15 53 ms 45 ms 45 ms YIPES.GigabitEthernet1-0-0.401.ar4.DAL1.gblx.net
[64.215.25.122]
16 48 ms 47 ms 48 ms 66.7.164.66
17 48 ms 46 ms 48 ms dvdtalk.com [66.7.164.226]

Trace complete.

Restarted the forum server, should have addressed today's issue

Thanks Geoff!

I had a problem and couldn't not access the forum at all from 1pm-5pm, kept getting a message about the server being reset. Seems to be working fine now.

yup, seemed to be an issue with the reboot and the web server for the forum. I'm talking to our host to see what happened

Any other AOL'ers still having trouble getting in?

Huge lag today at 5pm edst. I was on my wired connection, and the page took so long to load, I went away and came back later (ghod what a tortured sentence.)

Please post a traceroute when you notice slowness

Any time I've noticed delays (which usually happens for a minute or so practically every time I visit) the traceroutes usually look fine, which is probably an indicator that the database server is unable to handle the traffic at that time.

Gahhh! 5 minutes of inaccessibility gave me the shakes just now.

Forum very slow today, particularly at 9:21pm edst.




Tracing route to forum.dvdtalk.com [66.7.164.226]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 18 ms 12 ms * 70-33-128-1-gate.agstme.adelphia.net [70.33.128.
1]
3 14 ms 11 ms * 68.168.97.73
4 17 ms 16 ms * 24.54.23.153
5 86 ms 44 ms 28 ms 24.48.204.193
6 27 ms 25 ms * unk-426d0e99.adelphiacom.net [66.109.14.153]
7 26 ms 33 ms * so-1-0-0.a1.alb75.twc-core.net [66.109.1.46]
8 32 ms 34 ms * as-2-0.c0.nyc90.twc-core.net [66.109.1.21]
9 35 ms 34 ms * ae-0-0.p0.nyc90.twc-core.net [66.109.1.14]
10 33 ms 39 ms 38 ms 65.59.196.37
11 35 ms 34 ms * ae-14-51.car4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.19]
12 40 ms * * globalcrossing-level3-ge.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.
68.111.238]
13 39 ms 37 ms 37 ms ge0-3-0-10G.scr1.NYC1.gblx.net [67.17.104.185]
14 76 ms 76 ms 77 ms so0-0-0-2488M.ar2.DAL1.gblx.net [67.17.70.238]
15 75 ms 75 ms 74 ms YIPES.GigabitEthernet1-0-0.401.ar4.DAL1.gblx.net
[64.215.25.122]
16 95 ms 98 ms 99 ms 66.7.164.66
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 127 ms * * dvdtalk.com [66.7.164.226]
19 131 ms 133 ms 130 ms dvdtalk.com [66.7.164.226]

Trace complete.

Is it my computer or has the forum been running very slowly today?

I had some issues earlier today myself.

there were some issues around the time DVD Josh and dx23 posted .. though i'm late to post anything...just thought i'd inform.

It's been going on this morning as well.

I wasn't able to access dvdtalk.com from Monday morning until yesterday evening.

BTW, can somebody tell me how one go about in order to do a tracer route? Thanks in advance.

Here's a tracert I did about 9:30AM EST:

Tracing route to forum.dvdtalk.com
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.3.78
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms milsteinproperties01.m.subnet.rcn.com [209.122.7
0.33]
3 31 ms 45 ms 5 ms 209.122.59.17
4 47 ms 5 ms 5 ms ge2-0.core2.nyw.ny.rcn.net [207.172.15.66]
5 33 ms 93 ms 46 ms pos5-0.core1.phdl.pa.rcn.net [207.172.19.6]
6 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms pos6-0.core2.lnh.md.rcn.net [207.172.19.9]
7 75 ms 90 ms 95 ms ge1-0.border1.lnh.md.rcn.net [207.172.15.21]
8 159 ms 255 ms 77 ms so-5-3-3.mpr1.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.12.1]
9 57 ms 48 ms 51 ms so-0-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.29.110]

10 44 ms 90 ms 46 ms so-6-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.27.210]
11 106 ms 97 ms 187 ms so-2-2-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.29.9]
12 107 ms 175 ms 145 ms 216.200.6.237.theplanet.com [216.200.6.237]
13 112 ms 145 ms 64 ms te7-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.18]

14 180 ms 100 ms 224 ms vl22.dsr02.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.127.76]

15 59 ms 71 ms 216 ms vl2.car06.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.52]
16 460 ms 494 ms 502 ms 46.e8.2945.static.theplanet.com [69.41.232.70]
17 450 ms 528 ms 540 ms forum.dvdtalk.com [69.41.253.19]

Trace complete.

Windows: Start-Run

Type "cmd"

Type tracert forum.dvdtalk.com

hold down the windows button and r (or click start, click run) and type "cmd"

then type tracert 69.41.253.19 (and/or)
tracert 66.7.164.226

remove the first 2-3 lines if you don't want people to know where you're from (sometimes you may need to remove more than 2-3 lines)

Thank you Tracer Bullet and pilot. One last silly question, how do I copy and paste the results or do I have to type it manually?

Right-click and "select all", then paste.

Really s.....l.....o.....w..... for me today.

Anyone else experiencing this?

THEEK! :eek:

Really slow this afternoon.

Back to good ol' DVD (Turbo) Talk Speed on this end! :up: & :banana:

-Pablito

Yeah, it was grinding to a halt all day. I've stopped reporting it, though. No big woop, I come to DVDTalk for the content, not the efficiency of the server farm.

BTW, still doing it this morning. 8:10 to 8:12 am Eastern, absolute standstill.

Please post a trace route.

Going to start part II of this thread.