Could not connect - ANY site

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Since this afternoon EVERY page / site I've tried has to be loaded twice. The first time around, the browser just kicks up a message that it couldn't connect, then you just reload and it works. Very annoying. Anyone else getting this? :confused:
 
Jerry said:
Since this afternoon EVERY page / site I've tried has to be loaded twice. The first time around, the browser just kicks up a message that it couldn't connect, then you just reload and it works. Very annoying. Anyone else getting this? :confused:
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Yes, I think it's proxy / cache related, got a message that iBurst cache is shutting down...
 
Jerry said:
Since this afternoon EVERY page / site I've tried has to be loaded twice. The first time around, the browser just kicks up a message that it couldn't connect, then you just reload and it works. Very annoying. Anyone else getting this? :confused:
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Yep, I have been getting the same thing happening for a couple of hours now, this is what SWE2's Squid tells me, then I hit Reload in FireFox 1.0.2 and it usually works, although some pages I've had to hit reload up to 6 times before the page loads...
what happened when I tried to reply to Jerry's post said:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/newreply.php?

The following error was encountered:

* Connection Failed

The system returned:

(111) Connection refused

The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.
Generated Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:26:18 GMT by smoothwall (squid/2.5.STABLE7)
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Please note that this is any site - not a mybroadband.co.za problem - it is an WBS iBurst problem (even if that means upstream @ UUNET or IS...).
 
Also at work on the office network (UUNET, I think). I've had load many things twice before they will work. There seems to be a national connectivity problem today.
 
haha,
seems like most of us are having this prob. guess we will just have to wait until iburst finishes with the installation of more bandwidth
 
jmn said:
Yes, I think it's proxy / cache related, got a message that iBurst cache is shutting down...
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Please, more info - where / how did that message come through - I don't have such an email, nothing on the Incidents page (not that I can see)...:confused:

Please quote & post this mysterious communique ;)
 
now i can't get back to vodacom4me, again. wonder when this will be fixed. hopefully within the next hour
 
gigtech said:
haha,
seems like most of us are having this prob. guess we will just have to wait until iburst finishes with the installation of more bandwidth
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But my point is that I'm getting this problem at work. I'm not even using Iburst.
 
lol! If it's not WBS, it's UUNET or IS or Telkom or ...!!! I think we need to approach MR Shuttleworh. South Africa needs an ubuntu pipe - THEN it will be tata ma telkom! :p
 
ic said:
Please, more info - where / how did that message come through - I don't have such an email, nothing on the Incidents page (not that I can see)...:confused:

Please quote & post this mysterious communique ;)
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An iBurst page was displayed that stated something to the effect that the cache was shutting down, please try again later. Just glanced at the page and refreshed, then realised I should have copied it :(
My initial thought that it was a custom squid error page or something
 
Last night I noted that my msn disconected all the time. and then could not get to pages, this happend all night.
 
ic said:
Please, more info - where / how did that message come through - I don't have such an email, nothing on the Incidents page (not that I can see)...:confused:

Please quote & post this mysterious communique ;)
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Okay! I've just been getting messages like this trying to access various web pages:

Code: 
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/search.php?

The following error was encountered:

    Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.mybroadband.co.za 

The dnsserver returned:

    Timeout 

This means that:

 The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL. 
 Check if the address is correct. 

Your cache administrator is [email protected].
Generated Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:05:18 GMT by cache-01.jhb.wbs.co.za (squid/2.5.STABLE9)

Mysterious indeed.
 
yes this afternoon/evening they were definatly playing with a cache server, I got a couple of those cache messages. I mean on the one hand its inconvenient but on the other if they have a couple days to get it working right it could be exactly what WBS needs, caching is the most effective way of reducing load and increasing speed in all parts of computer science, so I'll give em a little leeway.

I just hope its not some mickey mouse job and it ends up being totally invisible, if I don't know its there then its doing its job perfectly
 
Code: 
>tracert [url]www.mybroadband.co.za[/url]

Tracing route to mybroadband.co.za [196.35.73.169]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   388 ms   155 ms    93 ms  196.30.31.100
  2   108 ms    46 ms    46 ms  192.168.0.97
  3   171 ms    77 ms    61 ms  fe6-1.gw10.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.31.254]
  4   187 ms    62 ms    61 ms  fe1-0.br1.jnb7.alter.net [196.31.17.162]
  5    77 ms    61 ms   140 ms  as3741.rba.is.co.za [196.30.228.242]
  6    77 ms   187 ms   108 ms  196.26.0.20
  7   153 ms   140 ms   155 ms  drax.co.za [196.35.73.169]

Trace complete.

Can we assume that 192.168.0.97 (should be private) is their cache?
 
i dont think so because the cache server had a hostname and that IP you mentioned cant be resolved. The hostname for me was cache-01.jhb.wbs.co.za which resolves to 196.30.31.242

also did you guys notice we have new IP blocks? its no longer just 196.46.*.* Theres like 196.1.** and 196.2.96.*

those arent the specific block ranges but the ranges they have bought fall on those blocks. So I guess even though communication to customers is not exactly flowing, it seems like our messages got to them and they seem to be doing alot of stuff over there.
 
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