very odd warning unknown to me [CloudFlare]

[Shane]

Had it all day yesterday and could not access the site until the late evening.
-Shane

[Yann]

Just got it now:

Host Not Configured to Serve Web Traffic

You've requested a page on a website (http://www.planetcatfish.com) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, the host web server does not appear to be configured to accept web traffic or serve web traffic. If you are the owner of this website, you should login to CloudFlare and change the DNS records for to resolve to a server configured to serve web traffic.

If you continue to experience this error, you may contact support. Please reference the following information in your message:
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Timestamp: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:56:32 -0700

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Your IP address: 80.218.96.90

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Requested URL: posting.php?mode=reply&f

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Error reference number: 1004

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Server ID: FL_18F4

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Process ID: PID_1334656587.539-1-456673215

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)

[MatsP]

I too am getting the odd message like Yann's. Usually goes away again with the next attempt or so.

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Mats

[Dave Rinaldo, posts: 1753]

I just got this. It took a couple of tries to get on.

[Yann]

Like Mats, F5 got it clear and back to the normal page!!
Cheers
Yann

[Shane]

Booted five times by the Clouflare bug while trying to post today. For longer postings I would highly recommend using a word-type program and then copy and paste it into the forum. I have "lost" three different postings this week to this bug.
After writing my post I hit "post" and it says "(Cloudflare) Website not configured for internet traffic" and the post is gone.
-Shane

[sidguppy, posts: 3827]

For longer postings I would highly recommend using a word-type program and then copy and paste it into the forum

great tip

and i had to use it in the past as well; not often with PC,
but most often with Dutch fora that have a long history as being more buggy than a scarab-infested Egyptian mummy

[Jools]

Guys,

Depending on browser, the back button should work as long as it's the first thing you do after clicking submit. If you're really worried about it and using windows, type a post, press CTRL-A (highlights the post) and then CTRL-C (copies the post to the clipboard) before clicking submit. You can do this as often as you like while typing. Then, if you need to, CTRL-V will bring back what was copied into a blank text box.

The only disadvantage of this method (versus launching word) is that it will not help you with a power failure.

Cloudflare has massively improved our performance, bandwidth and CPU usage. It's also, magically, blocked 47 spammers, two botnet zombies and two suspected DDoS attacks. The latter have in the past downed the site for a little while for everyone. I've experienced the error code once in about a week of constant use of the site, so I know it might be painful for some at times, but it's helping more than hindering.

Bear in mind that the security side of cloudflare monitors your "behavior" on other sites. So, if you spam other sites, have a virus running or your computer or are generally leaving content in "bad places" on the internet, then you're not going to get on very well here!

I will continue to monitor it.



Cheers,

Jools

[Shane]

Depending on browser, the back button should work as long as it's the first thing you do after clicking submit. If you're really worried about it and using windows, type a post, press CTRL-A (highlights the post) and then CTRL-C (copies the post to the clipboard) before clicking submit. You can do this as often as you like while typing. Then, if you need to, CTRL-V will bring back what was copied into a blank text box.

Jools,
This does not work. Yes, you can hit the back button. It will take you to the post editing page you were on (but your typed text will be gone). If you were smart enough to copy... you can paste your text back in, but then when you hit post it just goes back to the Cloudflare page. It is just a loop. You need to back out of the site, come back in, and start a second reply and hope you don't get the loop again.

I realize you would not be using it if you did not think it was advantageous.
-Shane

[MatsP]

Booted five times by the Clouflare bug while trying to post today. For longer postings I would highly recommend using a word-type program and then copy and paste it into the forum. I have "lost" three different postings this week to this bug.
After writing my post I hit "post" and it says "(Cloudflare) Website not configured for internet traffic" and the post is gone.
-Shane

You can usually go back to the previous page with the "back" button in the browser and then copy the content, and then paste it into a word-processor (or something like that) if you want to make sure you don't lose it.

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Mats

[Dave Rinaldo, posts: 1753]

It's been acting up again this afternoon.
I got both....

[Jools]

Thanks for reporting Dave.

Yeah, so this is a different thing. The issue is actually that dreamhost (our hosting company) has had a major issue today (see lots of very unhappy people here: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/04/ ... atacenter/).

Out with my control I am afraid but progress can be monitored via that link.

Jools

[Bijn, posts: 392]

• Host Not Configured to Serve Web Traffic
You've requested a page on a website (www.planetcatfish.com) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, the host web server does not appear to be configured to accept web traffic or serve web traffic. If you are the owner of this website, you should login to CloudFlare and change the DNS records for to resolve to a server configured to serve web traffic.
If you continue to experience this error, you may contact support. Please reference the following information in your message:
o Timestamp: Wed, 02 May 2012 14:40:40 -0700
o Your IP address: 91.182.53.100
o Requested URL: www.planetcatfish.com/forum/search.php? ... d=newposts
o Error reference number: 1004
o Server ID: FL_21F2
o Process ID: PID_1335994840.805-1-2418972632
o User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)

[Jools]

Despite speeding up the site and blocking a lot of SPAM, it appears that our hosts availability isn't good enough to reap all the benefits of cloudflare and the "time to time" unavailability is too prevalent. A bit disappointing. I have switched off the feature and it will take about 48 hours to remove itself.

Jools

[Firestorming, posts: 238]

Killing me off, I can get on but when I try to post a reply it goes to the error page, I wonder if this post will make it through.....

Sorry Jools, I missed the 48 hours bit, this site keeps me sane on 12 hour shifts. At least I did get my post through.

[Jools]

Last night was not helped by this.

Jools