Bruce Pennington Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 As the title says, I am unable to get into NMB today via my laptop, using DuckDuckGo, Firefox, or Chrome. I am typing this via my phone using Firefox. It is the only thing that is working for me to get into the site. Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted March 13 Author Report Posted March 13 Hmmm. Finally got in via the laptop. I restarted my computer, and viola! 1 Quote
Scogg Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Hey Bruce, this exact thing happened to me late last week. Couldn’t figure it out. Eventually everything went back to normal by the evening As a precaution I deleted my cookies, restarted my devices, and made sure all my updates were.. up to date. That didn’t immediately fix the issue for me though. Glad things are working again. Bizarre though… -Sam Quote
Brian Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Definitely not a forum issue. Can only be that side. Maybe DNS issues with your ISP or temporary routing issue. Can't really explain it. Quote
Scogg Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 @Bruce Pennington appears to be happening to me again today Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted March 13 Author Report Posted March 13 Yeah, that whole internet alternate universe is quite a mystery. I'm back on without incident, now. 1 Quote
Lewis B Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Happened to me too...briefly,,,,, this morning. EU time. Quote
Scogg Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Happen last week for me, and this morning on my work computer. With an error message about DNS. I tried my coworkers computer to go to the NMB homepage - and encountered the same issue. I cleared my DNS cache, deleted cookies+history, restarted the computer and internet router. Nothing seemed to work, and NMB was the only website seemingly affected. When I got home, my home laptop has no issues and I'm browsing NMB just fine. Weird though, I never experienced this issue before last week. -Sam Edit: It's always worked on my phone though 1 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 12 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said: Hmmm. Finally got in via the laptop. I restarted my computer, and viola! Someone advised me to use reboot at least once a week, for phone and pc. A reboot will often clear out more suspicious stuff than a simple shut-down will reach, I was told. 1 Quote
nulldevice Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 Here's my nerdy IT guy routine if a site I visit regularly doesn't load: 1. Try site normally 2. Try same site in private browser (incognito mode), this will clear out cookies, saved passwords, and all of the other information your browser stores that sometimes can cause issues 3. Try site on my phone with wi-fi off so I'm on a different network and IP 4. Do a nslookup to see if there are any glaring DNS record issues 5. Try a VPN connection from a different city If all of this fails, I usually assume an issue on the host-side and not my side. This site is managed behind Cloudflare and sometimes you'll get error messages stating if there are issues on the host side. I haven't experienced issues yet but if you see some Cloudflare page, its likely a host issue and not an issue on your side. Rebooting a computer is always a go-to as well, especially if it's been a long time. It's pretty much the golden rule in tech to "turn it off and on again" and even in 2025 when everything is cloud based and automated beyond belief, this is still often a fix for random issues that come up! However, if the site isn't loading on my phone, VPN, or home internet connection, its unlikely to be a tech issue on my side. 4 Quote
Brian Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 What Chandler said. Also, very useful to do a traceroute to see where the data is being lost. Use a site such as this one: https://tools.keycdn.com/traceroute Put in www.militaria.co.za or 156.38.200.30 and it will show you the data from various places in the world, and then you can see where the data is being lost along the way. You can usually see which "hop" is experiencing issues. Sometimes it is somewhere else in the world. Your work network and your cellphone network likely use different routes, so one of them can be affected while the other is working fine. If the loss is at the last 2 or 3 hops, you know the servers in South Africa are having a hiccup. If somewhere else, you can see it's not the server, but some other place along the route. 2 Quote
ROKUJURO Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 I had the same problem for some days and reported it to Brian. For a short while it was cured, but it came back again. With the help of my lady, I now use a VPN which works fine, except I lost my usual black background and have the bright one now which I don't like. How can I repair that, I wonder? Quote
Scogg Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 43 minutes ago, ROKUJURO said: How can I repair that, I wonder? If you go to the forums page, linked below, and scroll all the way down. You can then click on “Theme” in the bottom left. That should give you the dark mode option you’re used to, and maybe some others https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/ Hope that helps, Cheers, -Sam 3 Quote
Brian Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 One thing I'm excited for in the new software coming in months, is the easy dark/light and other theme selections. For example (and this won't be our layout, but the same feature) check out https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/ At the bottom left, click the dark/light button....that should be similar to what we'll have. Quote
Lewis B Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 2 hours ago, Brian said: check out https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/ I hope this isn't a sign of things to come Quote
Lewis B Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 7 hours ago, ROKUJURO said: I had the same problem for some days and reported it to Brian. For a short while it was cured, but it came back again. With the help of my lady, I now use a VPN which works fine, except I lost my usual black background and have the bright one now which I don't like. How can I repair that, I wonder? I wasn't aware we had that option. Much better experience on the 'dark' side. 1 Quote
ROKUJURO Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 My display is now immaculate, it even loads without VPN as before. 1 Quote
Brian Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 1 hour ago, Lewis B said: I hope this isn't a sign of things to come Not sure, but might have to be logged in to view that forum. Try this one, a forum that went to the new software. The light/dark switch is at the bottom https://codenamejessica.com/forums/ Quote
robinalexander Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 Had the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy S7 but just waited a day or so (or used my desktop instead) and it fixed itself, just as in the past. Annoying but not life threatening. Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted March 15 Author Report Posted March 15 On a similar note, I haven't been able to get into Warrelics for 2 days. They have suffered ongoing DDS attacks for some reason. They had a cloud flare protection that worked for a few days, but now I'm not able to get in at all. Quote
Brian Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 Bruce, I can access Warrelics no problem. Sounds like your ISP is having issues. 1 Quote
The Forest Ninja Posted March 15 Report Posted March 15 Every once in a while I'll flush My DNS and more using commant prompt with My Windows PC https://runcloud.io/blog/flush-dns-cache 1 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted March 16 Author Report Posted March 16 On 3/15/2025 at 7:30 AM, Brian said: Bruce, I can access Warrelics no problem. Sounds like your ISP is having issues. Yes, they've got it back up today. Lots of other mods have been discussing it with Serge, the Master Admin/tech. Quote
Scogg Posted March 17 Report Posted March 17 For what it's worth, I am now able to log into NMB on my work computer after about 72 hours of "DNS ERRORS". I didn't do anything special, it just started working again. Like others have said; local ISP issues makes the most sense to me. Cheers, -Sam 1 Quote
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