Forum Connectivity Issues

it happens around the same time each day
11 am my time(nova scotia -4:00) and last about a hour or so but i found it was down since like 9:30 my time.. and i was geting nothing till 11:45 or so when i got the mysql then nothing for a few mins then the mysql .. so i gave up till about 12:30 and it was back

hope that helps.. just an idea thow could it be someone trying to hack ozzu and would a ip change stop it?

It was down this morning for at least 15 minutes or so that I am aware of. Was getting the "too many concurrent connections" error. Overall though much better.

According to bandwidth graphs ozzu wasn't completely down but bandwidth dropped considerably for about an hour, I am guess that is when many were receiving the too many concurrent connections error. Ozzu should be better than before, but as you can see it looks like I need to resolve a few more issues causing problems.

cowkiller - I do not think anybody is deliberately trying to hack ozzu, or bring ozzu down. Lately in the mornings there have been increased bot activity and a few archivers which are putting additional stress on the server. One of the main issues last week was the new RSS feeds I added to ozzu had one very unoptimized mysql query putting an extremely large load on the server. That one is resolved. I just need to continue optimizing some of the mysql queries and I think that will resolve most of these issues in the morning.

ok
can you block some of the bots so it is not so bad?

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This is odd.


When creating a test page on my pc, I created a dummy link just for
testing purposes : <a href="zz.htm">bla</a>. zz.htm does not exist on
my pc and should give a "not found error".

When I click on that link I get the error messsage that both Cowkiller
and myself have quoted on this thread.

As this link is pointing to my local machine (even though it is a bad link)
how on earth am I seeing this Ozzu error message?


*Confused*

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I might add, that after seeing that error message originally on Ozzu a few days
ago I could no longer visit any web pages on the www .... all pages
timed out. Only after a reboot did things return to normal. I wonder if the
two are connected?

Certainly not. We are all getting this now and then

I think you misunderstand me.

What I mean is, after seeing that error message I was unable to access
any website anywhere on the web. And now the error message page
seems to have "invaded" my system ... or somehow "replaced" the
default "page not found" error message that a local bad link should
produce.

Are you saying everybody has this problem?

Do two things. Go to start| run and type ipconfig /flushdns That will clear your local DNS cache.
Then open Internet Explorer Tools |Internet Options and clear your cache. Close IE and reopen it.

Not sure if that will take care of it, but that's the first thing I would do.

OK, now I understand. Very odd problem though, you should do as ATNO suggested. You may also try this. Tools>Internet Options>Programs>Reset web settings.

Well, I am now suitably red-faced ... I must be going senile.


I managed to forget that I had an html file with that Ozzu error message
in it already on my system .... named zz.htm of all things.

No wonder local links to zz.htm (which I named to specifically result in a
bad link) were bringing up that error message. I thought that name
would be unique, but lo and behold it was already in existance, and with a
message that had me raisng my eyebrows.

There is something to be said for keeping the My Documents folder clean
and tidy I think.

*smiles. Well, glad you sorted it, and thanks for the update. I thought that was a bit of an odd problem.