very odd warning unknown to me [CloudFlare]

[Richard B, posts: 6338]

Just had this error on work laptop - screen shot function not working but just hitting refresh solved it.

[Jools]

definitely not fixed

this cloadflare is blocking PC, I think

Hi Alex,

I didn't say the issue with CloudFlare was fixed - you may wish to re-read the posts above. CloudFlare isn't blocking Planet, it's the availability of Planet to CloudFlare that is the issue (and which is being looking into). I note however considerably improved response times for non-US visitors with the exception of Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands for some reason I cannot explain. Funny thing is it's now working fine for me (has been for at least 24 hours) and it's darn fast.

I will keep working with dreamhost on it as, at least for now, the potential still well outweighs some transition pain. Will back it out if we can't get resolution of the issues in a reasonable timeframe.

Cheers,

Jools

[MatsP]

Yes, I noticed the ping-time to PC from home was in the below 50 ms range [1], rather than the 200ms range that I got before. And pages seem to load quite quickly here at work (can't ping from here, as the Firewall blocks pings!).

[1] Just logged into my linuxbox at home, and it gave me an average of 13.9ms per ping turnaround. Compared to 175ms for the www.dreamhost.com. So viewing pages that have the same content every time should be a lot faster. Pages that change will not be quite as fast, but should still be better (because a lot of the page-content is still the same)...

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Mats

[Birger]

It seems that you fixed it?

No, I think it (whatever it is) just needed some time to catch up and finish the changes.

Birger

[Bijn, posts: 392]

I received this warning during 6 or 7 hours:

Website Offline, No Cached Version Available

The website you are trying to access is currently offline. The most likely causes are the server is down for maintenance, there may be a network problem, or the site may be experiencing excessive load.

The site uses CloudFlare in order to help keep it online when the server is down by serving cached copies of pages where they are available. Unfortunately, a cached copy of the page you requested is not available, but you may be able to reach other cached pages on the site.

If you continue to receive this error after you believe the site is back online, you can retry a live version of the site.

[scotcat, posts: 96]

Hi Jools,

There may be an issue with I.P. addresses for the first log in as I am using it on ScotCat and that bug appeared at first but seems to have settled down now. It is certainly quicker than a speeding bullet

[Jools]

Thanks Allan, well done for beating us to adoption of it!

Jools

[scotcat, posts: 96]

Thanks Allan, well done for beating us to adoption of it!

Jools

You are very welcome

[Mike_Noren, posts: 1395]

FWIW I've never had an error, I'm in Sweden. Is there a geographic pattern to who gets errors? Could be that one of CloudFlare's gateways is misconfigured.

[MatsP]

I think what happens is that the DNS (Domain Name Server) configuration gets spread around the world. When the new setting comes online, it goes to Cloudflare server rather than the original PC server - and I think that's when problem occur - it may be simply that the new configuration isn't quite the same everywhere, so the Cloudflare server can't find the PC servers elsewhere. I can tell that my machine is accessing the Cloudflare rather than the server in California just by the time it takes to get there.

Of course, this is pure speculation.

Is anyone actually seeing problems now?

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Mats

[Dave Rinaldo, posts: 1758]

Is anyone actually seeing problems now?

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Mats

Just the one time for me.

[krazyGeoff, posts: 645]

I'm all good.

[donpetty, posts: 115]

I am in the US and the issue is continuing;
I am in Washington state and using a server routed through Denver, CO.
I have received this message almost every time I have tried to access the site last night and today. I have included a screen shot of the error I receive.
I did note that the link to PlanetCatfish goes to a .ajax.cloudflare address before trying to go to planet catfish, I don’t know if this means anything. In fact as I was attempting to add this post, i received the message when i clicked on Preview.
Thank you.

[MatsP]

Anyone having problems recently, we can blame that on a problem at DreamHost (where Planet Catfish "lives"). Although Cloudflare caches the content, it doesn't have ALL the content, since most pages contain content from the database (such as posts, my cats/auqarium/breeding, catelog content, articles, etc).

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Mats

[apistomaster, posts: 4572]

It has appeared today but is unpredictable.

[Shovelnose, posts: 874]

Faced the problem for the first time a few minutes ago. It appeared even when a link was clicked on repeatedly. Went away the third or fourth time.

[racoll, posts: 4494]

I've had it couple of times in NZ, including once today. A couple of refreshes, and it went away.

[apistomaster, posts: 4572]

I've had it couple of times in NZ, including once today. A couple of refreshes, and it went away.

Had to do the same just now to even get here.

[Mike_Noren, posts: 1395]

Just got the error when trying to post in another thread, then another 4-5 times when trying to post this message. So now we've got it too.

[Bijn, posts: 392]

This night I had it again.