Forum access denied for past 2 days ?

[Garrett2014]

Hi Guys , As topic title suggests ive been unable to access the forums these past couple of days ! Does anyone have any information on this ? Have you also been unable to access these forums recently ? I have more than one pc so i dont believe the problem to be local to me. Possiabaly my ISP ? Or was the issue server side ?

[Springheel]

Did it give you an error or just time out?

[Garrett2014]

I dont recall the actual error, but it was just like the forum wasnt there ! I could'nt connect to the server or something like that. It was a standard error like when you have lost your internet connection and cant access a web page. I could access other sites ok though and play MP or PvP games etc, so i wasnt my connection. I could get TheDarkMod website but not the forums.

[Goldwell]

I was browsing the past two days with no problems at. Perhaps its an ISP or computer issue?

[Airship Ballet]

I do remember it having some down-time recently but I don't think it was the past two days. It's a shame I don't remember the error code.

[Garrett2014]

Very strange indeed.

[RJFerret]

Sounds like your local DNS cache was out of wack and needed flushing, Windows: ipconfig /flushdns

 

For more details or how to flush it in other OSes: https://www.whatsmydns.net/flush-dns.html

 

(Multiple in house systems all having the same issue is likely, if their DNS source is the same. You'd have to have completely separate ISPs, and those providers would need completely separate upstream providers with good refreshed DNS data to compare. It's also an issue of timing, if the DNS there got corrupted, and you flush it before it's refreshed, you gain nothing. It's not until the data is good that you benefit. You also don't have to use your ISP's DNS servers, you can access others, which I do anyway for speed benefit.)

 

If I find a site unexpectedly unavailable, I tend to see if it's available via my phone (completely separate ISP in a totally different region). if it's down, I wait, if it's not, flushdns and voilà.

[New Horizon]

I haven't had any issues on my end. Pretty much sounds like it could have been an issue with your ISP. If you run into that issue again. you could always open up the windows command line window and do a tracert forums.thedarkmod.com