cannot open PPRUNE !!!!

[vaibhav]

since the last 24 hours i have not been able to open PPRUNE .. i am accessing pprune thorugh www.ipmask.org .. and i cannot access pprune through mozzila firefox , ie7 or google chrome ...

i have to use www.ipmask.org ... any reason why this is happening and is there any way to solve this issue ...


cheers

vaibhav dattani

[green granite]

Try using 67.201.16.181 instead of www.pprune.org and see if that helps. If it does then there is a DNS problem.

Or it might have something to do with the recent 3Hr outage.

[Saab Dastard]

IB have made some announcements about a site outage due to cyber-attacks.

The announcements seem to have been taken down now. :confused:

There is a known problem with access from Australia - it is possible this is related to the cyber-attacks.

IB are aware of it and are (presumably) working to resolve the problem.

SD

[ZFT]

Maybe coincidental but has similar problems last 3 days. Tried everything. Only recovered this past hour after System Restore which removed last batch of MS upgrades of 11/11/09? As stated, maybe purly coincidental.

[remoak]

Couldnt get PPRuNe over the weekend but its fine now... am currently in New Zealand. Didnt change anything on the five PCs in the house, all had the same problem...

[Pollyana]

All the IB forums were down in Aus and NZ from Sat night (our time) until about an hour ago (nightmare when you're a moderator and have no idea whats happening on your site!) :ugh:

[cogwheel]

IB = ?????


I can confirm that Prune was "down" all w/e in Oz.... don't know anyone that could see it till about 8am Monday 16th.

[FN-GM]

It might be wroth running this in the command prompt.

ipconfig /flushdns

this will get rid of any old DNS settings in the cache

[Load Toad]

PPrune was down all weekend in Hong Kong - simply got a page saying 'too long to respond'.

[Thai Pom]

^ Same Same in Bangkok

[Tarq57]

^same same (but different) in NZ.
Flushing DNS made no difference. All other sites appeared OK.

[parabellum]

Interesting that some here in Victoria, (Australia), are now able to connect, I am about 100kms East of the CBD and still can't connect directly, currently using a USA based server.

[mixture]

I don't have any insider knowledge, but I'll take an educated guess ....

The reason why Asia Pacific visitors are having difficulty might be down to the fact that PPRuNe (or perhaps rather the network on which it is located) was targetted by a bot-net attack, hence making the exact source difficult to pin down, leaving the techies with no option but to tarnish the Asia Pacific region with the same brush.

What's likely happening now is they are slowly repainting the Asia Pacific world and re-opening acccess bit by bit.

As I said, just a guess.... :cool:

[parabellum]

Thanks Mixture, sounds reasonable. Still out in my part of Oz, that is 23.25GMT on Monday.

[mixture]

Still out in my part of Oz, that is 23.25GMT on Monday.

As per the pre-flight SLF briefing, keep on blowing the whistle attached to your lifejacket ..... eventually someone will (might ?) hear you .... :ok:

Good luck getting back online !

[parabellum]

Thanks Tailstrike Charlie and Mixture, I can connect through the 'alternative method' but am happy to say that as of now, 11.00GMT we seem to be back to normal. If nothing else it teaches us all how to get around the odd problem! Thanks agian.

[mixture]

Welcome home. :cool: