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I finally was able to get on the boards this morning after about 2 hours worth of attempts. I appreciate all the things that the staff does to keep this thing going and I realize that they also have other things in their lives. The problem is.......so do I. Getting access to the boards is becoming almost a full time job for me. I have had the forums index address bookmarked and have used that bookmark for years to get here. For the past few months, it has become almost impossible. I am able to get here SOMETIMES by going to the VRCC Homepage and clicking on the 1800 Tech Board link. Even that route is a "crapshoot" at best.
I don't really have a need to use the site anymore since moving from the Valkyrie to the F6B, but I do like to read the 1800 Tech Board from time to time and read the "musings" of DDT here on the General Board.
Regretfully I will not be visiting the VRCC as frequently as in the past. It's just too time consuming to get here.
I'm not leaving "in a huff", nor am I pissed at anyone. I'm just growing weary of spending as much as half a day in order to access 5 minutes worth of reading.
This is a difficult decision as I have been on the VRCC Forums in all of its formats since day 1 of the VRCC being formed.
I'll check back in April to see what DDT has added.
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2017, 08:07:44 AM » |
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I think it must be something at your end
VRCC is the second web page I open after email. I occasionally gt the SMS whatever message. But it's very infrequent.
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2017, 08:08:30 AM » |
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That's not good... The site was very unstable the last few weeks, but *knock on wood* has been running pretty well for me the last week or so... Wish I could help figure out what's going on for those who are still having issues... Edit to add - Just had a thought, something that might help, although unlikely, but shouldn't cause any harm is to flush your local DNS resolver cache... if you're on a Windows machine, open a command prompt with administrator privileges and enter the following command: ipconfig /flushdns DNS is the friendlyname to IP address look up system for the Internet (Friendly name - www.valkyrieforum.com and an IP address looks more like 66.45.242.206) When your computer does a DNS lookup it will cache the results locally, but if you end up with a bad record in your local cache, it will keep looking up that bad record instead of going out and getting the current address, flushing your local DNS cache will force it to go back out to the Internet and get the current address. Unfortunately, your ISP might be using a caching DNS server of it's own that's serving up stale records, and there's not much you can do about that (Unless you want to try re-configuring your client to use a different DNS server (4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are good ones) but that's probably something most don't wanna tinker with. |
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« Last Edit: March 09, 2017, 08:12:19 AM by Serk »
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« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2017, 08:31:17 AM » |
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That's not good... The site was very unstable the last few weeks, but *knock on wood* has been running pretty well for me the last week or so... Wish I could help figure out what's going on for those who are still having issues... Edit to add - Just had a thought, something that might help, although unlikely, but shouldn't cause any harm is to flush your local DNS resolver cache... if you're on a Windows machine, open a command prompt with administrator privileges and enter the following command: ipconfig /flushdns DNS is the friendlyname to IP address look up system for the Internet (Friendly name - www.valkyrieforum.com and an IP address looks more like 66.45.242.206) When your computer does a DNS lookup it will cache the results locally, but if you end up with a bad record in your local cache, it will keep looking up that bad record instead of going out and getting the current address, flushing your local DNS cache will force it to go back out to the Internet and get the current address. Unfortunately, your ISP might be using a caching DNS server of it's own that's serving up stale records, and there's not much you can do about that (Unless you want to try re-configuring your client to use a different DNS server (4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are good ones) but that's probably something most don't wanna tinker with. You lost me at Edit......  |
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« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2017, 08:36:19 AM » |
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My success rate is about 1 in 4 attempts. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2017, 09:05:10 AM » |
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« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2017, 10:11:08 AM » |
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That's not good... The site was very unstable the last few weeks, but *knock on wood* has been running pretty well for me the last week or so... Wish I could help figure out what's going on for those who are still having issues... Edit to add - Just had a thought, something that might help, although unlikely, but shouldn't cause any harm is to flush your local DNS resolver cache... if you're on a Windows machine, open a command prompt with administrator privileges and enter the following command: ipconfig /flushdns DNS is the friendlyname to IP address look up system for the Internet (Friendly name - www.valkyrieforum.com and an IP address looks more like 66.45.242.206) When your computer does a DNS lookup it will cache the results locally, but if you end up with a bad record in your local cache, it will keep looking up that bad record instead of going out and getting the current address, flushing your local DNS cache will force it to go back out to the Internet and get the current address. Unfortunately, your ISP might be using a caching DNS server of it's own that's serving up stale records, and there's not much you can do about that (Unless you want to try re-configuring your client to use a different DNS server (4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are good ones) but that's probably something most don't wanna tinker with. You lost me at Edit......  Same here, I just didn't want to admit it publicly. |
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« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2017, 01:17:15 PM » |
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flush your local DNS resolver cache
I flushed my toilet resolver cache.
My computer isn't that far away from it.
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Serk
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« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2017, 01:24:07 PM » |
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Simpler (I hope  ) explanation of DNS cache: You've got an address book that says your buddy Willow lives at 6 Cylinder lane. You want to go to the Valkyrie get together at Willow's house, however Willow has moved to 1520 Valkyrie Way. Your address book is the incorrect DNS cache. Flushing it would be the equivalent of calling Willow and getting his current address information, and updating your address book.... If you drive to the VRCC gathering using the old address you won't find the VRCC gathering. If you update your address book to the current address and drive there, you'd hopefully, if your navigating skills are true, get to the right place. Make sense now? |
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« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2017, 01:31:28 PM » |
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Simpler (I hope ) explanation of DNS cache: You've got an address book that says your buddy Willow lives at 6 Cylinder lane. You want to go to the Valkyrie get together at Willow's house, however Willow has moved to 1520 Valkyrie Way. Your address book is the incorrect DNS cache. Flushing it would be the equivalent of calling Willow and getting his current address information, and updating your address book.... If you drive to the VRCC gathering using the old address you won't find the VRCC gathering. If you update your address book to the current address and drive there, you'd hopefully, if your navigating skills are true, get to the right place. Make sense now? Willow had a Valkyrie gathering and didn't invite me ?  Yeah, I get it. It's just not interesting to me, so I don't pay much attention to that stuff. For all our sakes though, I'm glad it's interesting to some such as yourself.  |
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2017, 01:43:06 PM » |
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Thanks for the assistance Serk.
When I've had trouble, I've been able to get in through the 1800 tech page (sometimes).
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« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2017, 01:56:20 PM » |
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Simpler (I hope ) explanation of DNS cache: You've got an address book that says your buddy Willow lives at 6 Cylinder lane. You want to go to the Valkyrie get together at Willow's house, however Willow has moved to 1520 Valkyrie Way. Your address book is the incorrect DNS cache. Flushing it would be the equivalent of calling Willow and getting his current address information, and updating your address book.... If you drive to the VRCC gathering using the old address you won't find the VRCC gathering. If you update your address book to the current address and drive there, you'd hopefully, if your navigating skills are true, get to the right place. Make sense now? That's a good explanation, Serk, but I think what most of the folks needed was not how it works but how they go about emptying their DNS cache. |
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Dave Ritsema
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« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2017, 02:43:01 PM » |
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Emptying my DNS Cache made no noticeable change for me. I frequent this board on several different computers that don't even reside in the same state and it makes no difference. I will say however that my service provider is Comcast in both cases. I will also say that this is the only site that I have encountered that presents me with the misery of not being able to be in touch with my friends at my every whim.  I feel that I am entitled to refund for the loss of these services that cause me so much angst. While perusing a website today that worked the first time I clicked on it, I found a saying that I liked and may even slightly apply to this situation. "Successful people feel grateful for what they have. Unsuccessful people feel entitled for what they do not have and believe they deserve." |
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« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2017, 03:59:29 PM » |
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Emptying my DNS Cache made no noticeable change for me. I frequent this board on several different computers that don't even reside in the same state and it makes no difference. I will say however that my service provider is Comcast in both cases.
Don't think the service provider makes any difference...I have the same issues on two separate desktops, my laptop, my tablet, and my phone using 3 different providers...and whether I'm in BC, Ontario, New York, Denver, etc. Usually in the AM it's worse, and many times when the desktop doesn't work the phone will.  "Successful people feel grateful for what they have. Unsuccessful people feel entitled for what they do not have and believe they deserve."[/quote] How true |
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« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2017, 04:35:21 PM » |
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I punch in three or four times a day all hours early and late and have never had a problem - ever.
(California - Firefox - desktop PC or laptop. . . if that means anything)
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« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2017, 04:23:23 AM » |
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I punch in three or four times a day all hours early and late and have never had a problem - ever.
(California - Firefox - desktop PC or laptop. . . if that means anything)
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Wizzard
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« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2017, 06:08:38 AM » |
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Well Dave,, I am in your region and it happens to me all the time
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« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2017, 07:49:52 AM » |
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Well Dave,, I am in your region and it happens to me all the time
I haven't made the connection just yet but I am certain it has something to do with Donald Trump.  |
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« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2017, 08:05:23 AM » |
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Well Dave,, I am in your region and it happens to me all the time
I haven't made the connection just yet but I am certain it has something to do with Donald Trump. I would love to blame it on him, but alas it's happening to his supporters and his non supporters.  |
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« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2017, 08:20:06 AM » |
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Well Dave,, I am in your region and it happens to me all the time
I haven't made the connection just yet but I am certain it has something to do with Donald Trump. I would love to blame it on him, but alas it's happening to his supporters and his non supporters. Then I bet it is Bernie Sanders! |
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« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2017, 08:24:30 AM » |
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Well Dave,, I am in your region and it happens to me all the time
I haven't made the connection just yet but I am certain it has something to do with Donald Trump. I would love to blame it on him, but alas it's happening to his supporters and his non supporters. Then I bet it is Bernie Sanders! Nah...Serk says he is a commie. He wants everyone to have Internet. I'd put my money on Clinton. She's still pissed about her server issues. "Hell knows no fury like a woman scorned" (or something like that) |
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« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2017, 08:25:06 AM » |
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I blame Bush
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« Reply #22 on: March 10, 2017, 08:37:07 AM » |
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I blame Bush
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« Reply #23 on: March 10, 2017, 09:54:45 AM » |
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Once again Larry here in Jonesboro, burb 15 miles south of Atlanta experiencing no problems on my PC windows 7 nor my Galaxy 4. I am on at least twice or more every day. Comcast interweb at home and what ever the wifi is at my grandsons school and his BJJ gym. Seriously, none. Being a analog guy stuck in a digital world I offer no explanation for this except just plain crapp house luck.....
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« Reply #24 on: March 10, 2017, 11:26:28 AM » |
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Well Dave,, I am in your region and it happens to me all the time
I haven't made the connection just yet but I am certain it has something to do with Donald Trump. I've been telling you guys all along....good to see you're starting to see it.... |
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« Reply #25 on: March 10, 2017, 11:49:57 AM » |
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Found it!
Having occasional problems "finding" the server too.
Wikileaks or the CIA are on to us guys.
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« Reply #26 on: March 10, 2017, 12:06:11 PM » |
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Another guy in the Midwest... Problems getting here for the past few months. Sometimes it's for hours, sometimes it takes a few tries in a few minutes...
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« Reply #27 on: March 10, 2017, 12:31:56 PM » |
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happened to me yesterday and today......finally got in a couple hours later.
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« Reply #28 on: March 10, 2017, 06:07:25 PM » |
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Hmmm...must be a Indiana thing. I really haven't had anymore trouble as recent as I have in the past. Only once in awhile I will get the sms thing.
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« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2017, 07:05:00 PM » |
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Simpler (I hope ) explanation of DNS cache: You've got an address book that says your buddy Willow lives at 6 Cylinder lane. You want to go to the Valkyrie get together at Willow's house, however Willow has moved to 1520 Valkyrie Way. Your address book is the incorrect DNS cache. Flushing it would be the equivalent of calling Willow and getting his current address information, and updating your address book.... If you drive to the VRCC gathering using the old address you won't find the VRCC gathering. If you update your address book to the current address and drive there, you'd hopefully, if your navigating skills are true, get to the right place. Make sense now? Instead of loosing me at EDIT, now you lost me at SIMPLER...  yah, website does not allow me in as well mostly mornings and nights are better. does not bug me too much though we all eventually get in. Does anyone think it is older operating systems like I have being windows Vista and need to upgrade to windows 10 or download or upgrade some type of software that this Valkyrie website needs to log in? I doubt it though since this is the only website that has this issue on my web broswer of google chrome. |
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« Reply #30 on: March 10, 2017, 08:21:37 PM » |
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Works fine with my ten year old desktop PC with Vista operating system - and the two year old laptop with Win10 system . . . and my five year old droid smartphone device. Dish satellite beams me up every time at home no problems. The laptop always connects at home or on the road in various motel or cafe wifi locations. Droid connects no matter where I happen to be. Tried the droid process today in town . . . no problemo.
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« Reply #31 on: March 10, 2017, 08:38:02 PM » |
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Happens to me every day....day in and day out lately.
I will say it is more "Chrome" that has issues with it than Microsoft Edge.
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« Reply #32 on: March 10, 2017, 08:41:01 PM » |
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Southern Illinois and same problem here.
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« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2017, 07:53:47 AM » |
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Since starting this thread 5 or 6 days ago, gaining access to the boards has gotten slightly better. I seem to have the best luck by "logging out" whenever I go to a different site, and then when I want to revisit the VRCC Boards, I go to the VRCC Home Page and click on the link to the 1800 Tech board. It doesn't always work but the success rate is a bit higher than when trying to get to the Forums Index through my "Bookmarks".
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« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2017, 08:49:16 AM » |
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i could not get on yesterday morning for over 3 hours. "server not found" message
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« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2017, 08:51:54 AM » |
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Same for me past 2 or 3 days. No matter what I tried, same result. Mine is usually around 8:00 am or so Michigan time. I finally gave up.
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« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2017, 08:59:44 AM » |
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today is the 1st day I've been able to get on before noon in weeks.....
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« Reply #37 on: March 15, 2017, 04:17:24 PM » |
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Yep, still happening daily.................
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« Reply #38 on: March 16, 2017, 05:37:51 AM » |
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Logged in this am @ 0838, snapped right up each and every time.....gonna be a good day!
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« Reply #39 on: March 16, 2017, 08:27:22 AM » |
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Has worked well for me today.
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