The Blue is Broken? July 11, 2007 1:05 PM Subscribe
Is it just me, or has the Blue been replaced by a default apache loading page?
It's just you.
posted by IronLizard at 1:18 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 1:18 PM on July 11, 2007
Did you try shaking your monitor?
posted by puke & cry at 1:27 PM on July 11, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by puke & cry at 1:27 PM on July 11, 2007 [1 favorite]
Humph. Well, I tried clearing my cache and using IE instead (yuck!) instead, but I still see this.
posted by falconred at 1:32 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by falconred at 1:32 PM on July 11, 2007
She's cheating on you.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 1:35 PM on July 11, 2007 [3 favorites]
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 1:35 PM on July 11, 2007 [3 favorites]
Probably just a temporary thing. This site is moving pretty slow right now though.
posted by puke & cry at 1:38 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by puke & cry at 1:38 PM on July 11, 2007
What address do you get when you ping metafilter? (type cmd /k ping metafilter.com into the Run box, which is in the Start menu)
actually, what happens if you put 74.53.68.130 into your browser?
posted by niles at 1:39 PM on July 11, 2007
actually, what happens if you put 74.53.68.130 into your browser?
posted by niles at 1:39 PM on July 11, 2007
Site's been pretty chunky for me today, but I sure haven't seen that.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:42 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:42 PM on July 11, 2007
I haven't gotten any Apache screens, but the site has been loading horribly slow all day and I've gotten a lot of "Site not responding" errors. I figure it's just a server hiccup or something.
posted by LeeJay at 2:06 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by LeeJay at 2:06 PM on July 11, 2007
What address do you get when you ping metafilter?
74.53.0.4 (and I get the apache page if I plug this directly into my browser)
actually, what happens if you put 74.53.68.130 into your browser?
I get the apache page.
posted by falconred at 2:28 PM on July 11, 2007
74.53.0.4 (and I get the apache page if I plug this directly into my browser)
actually, what happens if you put 74.53.68.130 into your browser?
I get the apache page.
posted by falconred at 2:28 PM on July 11, 2007
Looks like a DNS server is giving you the wrong IP address for metafilter.com. When you ping metafilter.com you should get back 74.53.68.130.
You could try nslookup metafilter.com from a command line and you might find out which DNS server has the wrong address. If you're familiar with your Hosts file, you might take a look and see if there are any entries for metafilter.com.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:47 PM on July 11, 2007
You could try nslookup metafilter.com from a command line and you might find out which DNS server has the wrong address. If you're familiar with your Hosts file, you might take a look and see if there are any entries for metafilter.com.
posted by pb (staff) at 2:47 PM on July 11, 2007
weird. I get the metafilter home page if I go to 74.53.68.130 (which is the IP I get when I ping MeFi), but I get the same Apache page at 74.53.0.4.
If only I knew what that meant.
posted by niles at 2:47 PM on July 11, 2007
If only I knew what that meant.
posted by niles at 2:47 PM on July 11, 2007
cPanel?
posted by timeistight at 3:02 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by timeistight at 3:02 PM on July 11, 2007
4.0.53.74.in-addr.arpa name = 4.0.354a.static.theplanet.com
Strange, I've tracked a boatload of oddball ip connections from my own machine to this 'the planet' hosting place. They were all coming from my 'system idle' process (I know, it's not really a process but in vista the windows session manager seems to live within it ) until I blocked it, What gives?
posted by IronLizard at 3:06 PM on July 11, 2007
Strange, I've tracked a boatload of oddball ip connections from my own machine to this 'the planet' hosting place. They were all coming from my 'system idle' process (I know, it's not really a process but in vista the windows session manager seems to live within it ) until I blocked it, What gives?
posted by IronLizard at 3:06 PM on July 11, 2007
Oh, and did I mention port 80 on the many IP's was always some screwed up apache error page?
posted by IronLizard at 3:08 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 3:08 PM on July 11, 2007
IronLizard saved the day. I am also in Vista, so I added this to my hosts file:
127.0.0.1 *.theplanet.com
Now I can see the blue again. That was interesting...
posted by falconred at 3:20 PM on July 11, 2007
127.0.0.1 *.theplanet.com
Now I can see the blue again. That was interesting...
posted by falconred at 3:20 PM on July 11, 2007
Indeed. And here I thought all this Vista Windows Defender junk was keeping me safe. Hah!
posted by falconred at 3:28 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by falconred at 3:28 PM on July 11, 2007
Just a thought, have you added any new firefox extensions lately? Install anything else?
posted by IronLizard at 3:36 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 3:36 PM on July 11, 2007
Also, if it's malware it hides in smss.exe or hijacks it, one of the two.
posted by IronLizard at 3:37 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 3:37 PM on July 11, 2007
mefi is hosted at the planet so you might be getting stuck at the firewall or something. What's odd though is that it appears to be only you.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:52 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:52 PM on July 11, 2007
Site's been pretty chunky for me today, but I sure haven't seen that.
cortex, do you surf?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 5:50 PM on July 11, 2007
cortex, do you surf?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 5:50 PM on July 11, 2007
I actually have problems with the site timing out and refusing to load at work sometimes not that I read mefi at the work, so I assume it's somehow related to specific connection weirdness. Hitting refresh brings it back eventually.
posted by !Jim at 7:19 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by !Jim at 7:19 PM on July 11, 2007
I get that at home too.
posted by IronLizard at 7:48 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 7:48 PM on July 11, 2007
You know who else had problems with that IP address, don't you?
posted by blue_beetle at 9:27 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by blue_beetle at 9:27 PM on July 11, 2007
It wasn't Stalin, was it? Please tell me it wasn't Stalin.
posted by IronLizard at 10:18 PM on July 11, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 10:18 PM on July 11, 2007
Default Apache? Wasn't he briefly with the Avengers back in the 1970s? Wore a feather headress and a yellow costume emblazoned with a thunderbird symbol? Could fire lightning bolts from his tomahawk? I'm pretty sure he was killed by Galactus in issue 480.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:30 AM on July 12, 2007
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:30 AM on July 12, 2007
You're not half wrong, AZ, but the lightning bolt thing must be an exaggeration. All reputable sources maintain he was much, much more mundane.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:04 AM on July 12, 2007
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:04 AM on July 12, 2007
Not quite - after the Super Friends broke up he had a rough few years on Bleeker Street: using his powers for sex, drinking too much, eventually spiralling into the nosedive of drugs and self-loathing so many of these ex-supergroup types go through when the going gets rough.
Lucky for him Peter Schilling had been a huge fan of his early work, and eventually tracked him down and got him on his feet again. With his new career, he prepended the adjective to his monicker on account of his Earthquake Powers and ability to scat like a cross between Cab Calloway and Biz.
Sadly, he was killed by Galacticus in issue 481 in a drunken dispute about the girl on the Land-O-Lakes butter packaging.
posted by freebird at 9:03 AM on July 12, 2007
Lucky for him Peter Schilling had been a huge fan of his early work, and eventually tracked him down and got him on his feet again. With his new career, he prepended the adjective to his monicker on account of his Earthquake Powers and ability to scat like a cross between Cab Calloway and Biz.
Sadly, he was killed by Galacticus in issue 481 in a drunken dispute about the girl on the Land-O-Lakes butter packaging.
posted by freebird at 9:03 AM on July 12, 2007
mefi is hosted at the planet so you might be getting stuck at the firewall or something.
I assume The Planet is doing your DNS as well? It looks like they had a hiccup that routed MeFi's IP to one of their shared machines. cPanel is a common interface for hosted domains on shared machines.
What's odd though is that it appears to be only you.
Again, if it's DNS, it could just be a TTL problem. If they sent out a "bad" update followed by a "good" one, and falconred's ISP caught the bad DNS with a long TTL, it would take longer to shake out for him. Remote, but possible.
I'm such a nerd
posted by mkultra at 1:26 PM on July 12, 2007
I assume The Planet is doing your DNS as well? It looks like they had a hiccup that routed MeFi's IP to one of their shared machines. cPanel is a common interface for hosted domains on shared machines.
What's odd though is that it appears to be only you.
Again, if it's DNS, it could just be a TTL problem. If they sent out a "bad" update followed by a "good" one, and falconred's ISP caught the bad DNS with a long TTL, it would take longer to shake out for him. Remote, but possible.
I'm such a nerd
posted by mkultra at 1:26 PM on July 12, 2007
I liked the evil malware conspiracy better. DNS caching intervals are just so boring after that.
posted by IronLizard at 3:00 PM on July 12, 2007
posted by IronLizard at 3:00 PM on July 12, 2007
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I expected the outcry of thousands (ok dozens) of bored MeFites, but the status blog, wiki, and Meta have been silent.
So, uh, what's going on? Did I miss something?
posted by falconred at 1:06 PM on July 11, 2007