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If it was just this one thing, it would be no big deal, but it seems like we have a couple of amateur hour gaffes a year.

Anybody remember the lack of concessions at some of the early football games this year?
 
In all seriousness, it was working for me earlier on this computer and now it's not. Mobile isn't working either.
 
It's been down for me for a couple of days now on different machines and browsers, so I'm not sure what the deal with that is. I've cleared cache, history, temp internet files, all that jazz. I could still be fucking something up, though.
 
ChrisL68 said:
If it was just this one thing, it would be no big deal, but it seems like we have a couple of amateur hour gaffes a year.

Anybody remember the lack of concessions at some of the early football games this year?
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big time?
 
Finally working for me today. Cleared my cache several times yesterday, never did work?
 
liveanddiedeac said:
Finally working for me today. Cleared my cache several times yesterday, never did work?
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For the record, it's usually not a web browser cache thing in this case or anything on your computer really, it's DNS caching. When you fail to renew a domain the hosting site alters the DNS record (what IP the domain resolves to) which is hosted on DNS servers all over the world. Eventually it'll filter down to all the ISP's and your computer will start resolving the new location. This is why some people were seeing the broken site and others were still seeing the Wake one for a while. Same happens in reverse.

Additionally many companies and ISPs have Edge Routers or what some call Internet Accelerators. They'll store web sites and pages and only check for reload if there are changes in page content or DNS records - otherwise they won't pull data from the internet they'll just serve up their cached data (saves money and bandwidth). Because DNS record updates are rare, many only check once a day.

Google's DNS servers are actually public. If your ISP sucks (or you suspect it sucks) you can always point to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as a gold standard of DNS. For most this is a manual update on their router, not an individual computer, assuming you want the change to apply everywhere on your network.
 
MysteryMen said:
Not sure whose fault it is...word I heard was IMG, but I am 100% sure it was not media relations.
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Deacsfan27 said:
ACCSports.com wrote an article about how ridiculous of a gaffe it was by media relations.
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It started to get cold outside, so the Media Relations bunch all took vacation to see family in warmer climates, at the same time, and the few who did not, just ditched work or worked from home (not really working of course). Nobody really noticed until the web site crashed.
 
DCDeac said:
For the record, it's usually not a web browser cache thing in this case or anything on your computer really, it's DNS caching. When you fail to renew a domain the hosting site alters the DNS record (what IP the domain resolves to) which is hosted on DNS servers all over the world. Eventually it'll filter down to all the ISP's and your computer will start resolving the new location. This is why some people were seeing the broken site and others were still seeing the Wake one for a while. Same happens in reverse.

Additionally many companies and ISPs have Edge Routers or what some call Internet Accelerators. They'll store web sites and pages and only check for reload if there are changes in page content or DNS records - otherwise they won't pull data from the internet they'll just serve up their cached data (saves money and bandwidth). Because DNS record updates are rare, many only check once a day.

Google's DNS servers are actually public. If your ISP sucks (or you suspect it sucks) you can always point to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as a gold standard of DNS. For most this is a manual update on their router, not an individual computer, assuming you want the change to apply everywhere on your network.
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townie, take notes. this is how to be a pretentious douchebag.
 
ChrisL68 said:
If it was just this one thing, it would be no big deal, but it seems like we have a couple of amateur hour gaffes a year.
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This. The one constant is the person in charge of all the functionaries that commit the screw-ups.
 
Anyone else having issues again tonight with the site?

I can get to other sites with no problem.
 
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