Bug report JoeUser.

Maybe Pat can have a look at it.

http://madice.joeuser.com
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First of all, thanks for this site. I like the new features.

I am having trouble with connecting to www.joeuser.com and sub-domains of users. Sometimes I succeed at once and sometimes I need to try again a lot of times. This is not happening just today, but it is doing that for a while now. It gives a 404. At first I thought you were working on the site, but I also tried it during your night. Same thing happens.

Another error that I encountered is with entering a long URL in the External URL field when entering a new article. In several other articles I was able to enter the URL, but this one (which is valid) produces an error 500 (Internal server error). Retry doesn't seem to work. I am testing it again now. If I succeed then I will delete this thread.

Edited: Yep. It is happening again. I was trying to add the following URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/18MISS.html?ex=1064462400&en=ec7c6f0958903346&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

I am now trying a short one.

Edited: Adding a short URL seems to work.

Final update: Pat fixed both bugs! Yay!
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
BTW: Do others have the same problem?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's odd. I am having trouble with some sub domains. For an example: My own often fails, but Draginol's or T-man's often work fine.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Log off does not make a difference. Deleting cookies has no effect either. Nor has restarting IE.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Erm... No offense intended. I am just testing a bit. I hope you don't mind.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sub-Domains: I was experiencing similar problems about a week ago. We were having problems with one of our internal DNS Servers. Switching DNS servers for me would solve the problem. This should not effect you but I wonder if your ISP's DNS server is experiencing similar problems. We never solved the problem and I haven't had a problem in almost a week now.

Try closing your browser and then from a command line type: ipconfig /flushdns
Then try and Ping the site in question, ie: ping madice.joeuser.com to see if the name resolves.

Long URL's: We had a 100 character limit and we were not checking its length. I have extended the field length to 255 and we will be adding code to set the MaxLength and to double check the length before adding it to the database.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thanks for the fast reply, Pat.

I'll try that.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yay! Thanks, Pat! The 404 is gone! Great tip.

No. AFAIK I don't have any problems with other sites.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh. And the long URL works too. I needed that for another article.

Thanks!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Excellent!
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nope. I am having the 404 again. :(

Sorry.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
In fact no improvement at all. I thought the DNS cache flush did work. But it didn't. Back to square one.

Erm... 2! The long URLs do work. ;)
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
i've had no problems at all

Paul.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ah. I received an e-mail from Pat. He is trying to find out what is wrong with this. I hope it's not some mistake I made.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
It looks like Pat has found the cause and of my problem. He made changes to the way the DNS is handled. All looks well now.

Thanks, Pat!!!!!