Site down?

[Pugger]

What happened to this site earlier today? :cnf:

[MadtownPacker]

Thanks for starting this thread Pug.

Had some hosting changes that took place yesterday and it turns out PackerRats web hosting service has assigned new name servers to the site. They have been updated now but will take a bit to kick in.

In other words the servers the site was pointed to changed. They have been updated but will take a little bit to kick in.

Apologies for the downtime, it was not expected so I didnt make a warning thread before it all went down.

[Pugger]

I'm glad we are back, Mad. Even tho the language is colorful here ;-) it is fun to talk about my favorite team with you all.

[MadtownPacker]

I'm with you. I never participated in forums before I started with this group. I believe I was actually heartbroken from 4th&26 and started reading then posting on the JSO forum.

[The Shadow]

I'm with you. I never participated in forums before I started with this group. I believe I was actually heartbroken from 4th&26 and started reading then posting on the JSO forum.

I bet you were more heartbroken when Ricky Martin stopped sending you flowers.

[Patler]

The site was down??? I hadn't noticed. Of course, I am so rarely here........ :bs:

[woodbuck27]

The site was down??? I hadn't noticed. Of course, I am so rarely here........ :bs:

Yea sure Patler. I'll bet anything you were all over the net looking for an alternate site to express your views on. Nothing.... could keep you down.

Of course........ I'm just handing you your ass. :whist:

Sometimes over the years I've taken an opportunity to go to other NFL fan sites to seek some information. IMO there is no site even nearly as good as Packerrats. I love Packerrats. This place about covers it all for the die hard Green Bay Packer and NFL fan. Granted a person has to have a certain grit to understand and survive here. At the same time it's not anal, with all the emphasis on reported post monitoring with the burden of no background check consideration. This forum is scary as hell and at the same time fair. To truly appreciate Packerrats;you must be..... a Packerrat.

I never get enough opportunities to say this and do so without kissing the man's ass. THANK YOU Madtownpacker ' El Jardinero Rat'.

THANK YOU ALL for Packerrats.

[MadtownPacker]

I bet you were more heartbroken when Ricky Martin stopped sending you flowers.
The heartbreaking part was that I was waiting to put them on your grave but you keep kicking.

[KYPack]

Thanks for starting this thread Pug.

Had some hosting changes that took place yesterday and it turns out PackerRats web hosting service has assigned new name servers to the site. They have been updated now but will take a bit to kick in.

In other words the servers the site was pointed to changed. They have been updated but will take a little bit to kick in.

Apologies for the downtime, it was not expected so I didnt make a warning thread before it all went down.

Thx fer getting it back up.

Good job, vato.

[pbmax]

The site was down??? I hadn't noticed. Of course, I am so rarely here........ :bs:

Exactly. I wasn't worried at all and I certainly didn't Direct Message all the followers on Twitter trying to get an answer.

By the way, if anyone wants to post their email address, I will write it down for safekeeping!

[MadtownPacker]

I didnt do shit KY. Some dude with a accent (not Spanish one) had to give me the right info.

PB, you TwitNit!!

[pbmax]

I didnt do shit KY. Some dude with a accent (not Spanish one) had to give me the right info.

PB, you TwitNit!!

I might have KY's email somewhere. But that's it. Twitter was the only choice, I wonder if Kiwon and Mission got the messages?

[Freak Out]

Ok....I feel better now.

[pbmax]

Down again from last night to this morning. Those DNS servers are updating slow. I thought it might just be Charter's normal complacency, but the lack of posts would seem to indicate I wasn't the only one with trouble.

[MadtownPacker]

You are correct PB. I had to change them again right now. These fuckheads gave me the wrong shit!! So now it should supposedly be good to go.

[Fritz]

Thx fer getting it back up.

Good job, Viagra.

Fixed.

[Joemailman]

Time to stop using the Commodore 64 as a server.

[pbmax]

You are correct PB. I had to change them again right now. These fuckheads gave me the wrong shit!! So now it should supposedly be good to go.

I just lost it again for 10 minutes. Weird. Came back after delay on second refresh.

[woodbuck27]

I just lost it again for 10 minutes. Weird. Came back after delay on second refresh.

Ohh no! There's a ghost in the plant.

[Guiness]

My biggest issue with the downtime was that I didn't know where to go to bitch about the downtime. PBmax has not pointed out that I could've complained on Twitter, thanks for clearing that up old buddy!

[QBME]

TT must have been freaking out. Two days to free agency and his double secret source of inestimable information suddenly vanished!

[pbmax]

My biggest issue with the downtime was that I didn't know where to go to bitch about the downtime. PBmax has not pointed out that I could've complained on Twitter, thanks for clearing that up old buddy!

Feel free to complain on Twitter anytime. Just send along your Rat name with the Twitter handle so I know how to respond. I was talking to ATX something today and had no idea who it was.

[swede]

As a conservative i think it is wrong for people to complain about not getting free stuff purchased with the money and efforts of others, but for Packerrats i will make an exception.

I'm not ready to have conversations with real people. Too risky. And my goldfish is a Denver fan.

Downtime only served to point out my addiction too keenly.

First I was thinking "Maybe Mad is sick of our whiny complaining and isn't going to keep shelling out 50 bucks a year just so we can make his life miserable."

Then I was thinking "Maybe Mad lost us in the vast spaces of the Interweb, like in the movie Tron, and he is searching for us but wicked adbots are chasing him and he needs our help."

Then I was thinking "The site will probably be down for a few days due to some technical glitch and it will come back and everybody will be like 'where did you go, man?'

Just to be safe I should update my e-mail for you, Mad, and we should have some kind of secret code for you to write on our monitors from within the grid before the wicked adbots can erase your code. Maybe something like "Get the F^*% off of Maxim and download "MadTown" before I kick your ass!" would be a good secret phrase.

[Joemailman]

If this happens again, I'm going back to Christian Encourager.

[Freak Out]

I just want to say thank you again to the Beaner and all the other Rats that make this place go round and round. There was a point when I thought it would be cool to start a Packer forum/blog but quickly realized what a fucking pain it was...so thanks for dealing with the dirt for us fuck ups Madtown.

[MJZiggy]

I might have KY's email somewhere. But that's it. Twitter was the only choice, I wonder if Kiwon and Mission got the messages?


You have my email...

[swede]

Ha ha!

Having Packerrats at Christian Encourager was like having Delta Tau Chi move into your grandma's basement.

[MJZiggy]

I could have gotten onto Twitter to complain about it, but I can't remember my password and the email account I used to create my twitter account no longer exists. I'm not sure I want to run a website, just so I can recreate that email to get my twitter handle back...

[Bretsky]

You have my email...


Could always to back and find the Yahoo FFL teams and you'd have about 9 more

[Kiwon]

I might have KY's email somewhere. But that's it. Twitter was the only choice, I wonder if Kiwon and Mission got the messages?

Sorry, I saw the message late. Yeah, I went to PR and it said Mad had taken the money and ran.

My world was crushed. Outage made my appreciate PR, though.

Btw, I can't reply via DM if you don't follow a brother.....

[MJZiggy]

Could always to back and find the Yahoo FFL teams and you'd have about 9 more

Because I don't throw anything out--I finally decided to clean out the email inbox that I was using when I was doing the webpage and found all of the old emails about articles and such. I couldn't delete them even though I don't always remember who all of them are.

And now I've been sitting here for however long trying to remember what my twitter password is...

[Kiwon]

(Shortwave background static)

"Testing, testing, testing.... Calling HQ, come in HQ.."

[Pugger]

Thank god this isn't the only site I post on or I'd really go thru withdrawals....

[Kiwon]

Thank god this isn't the only site I post on or I'd really go thru withdrawals....

PR is the only place for me. There is something about (dysfunctional) family that's very sentimental and heart-warming. :-)

[mission]

Exactly. I wasn't worried at all and I certainly didn't Direct Message all the followers on Twitter trying to get an answer.

By the way, if anyone wants to post their email address, I will write it down for safekeeping!

Haha, I got your message and tried to reply multiple times but it was the only DM twitter kept giving me an error message on. Didn't want you to think I was ignoring you... my msg was that I would buy PackerRats if Mad can't afford to pay the hosting fee :lol:

[Guiness]

RDWHAHB!

[wootah]

Had an internship last week with no internetaccess so when seeing the site offline during the weekend, I thought it was done. I must admit it felt somewhat bad.

I need to do more internships.

[HowardRoark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFRonD-sjg

[woodbuck27]

As a conservative i think it is wrong for people to complain about not getting free stuff purchased with the money and efforts of others, but for Packerrats i will make an exception.

I'm not ready to have conversations with real people. Too risky. And my goldfish is a Denver fan.

Downtime only served to point out my addiction too keenly.

First I was thinking "Maybe Mad is sick of our whiny complaining and isn't going to keep shelling out 50 bucks a year just so we can make his life miserable."

Then I was thinking "Maybe Mad lost us in the vast spaces of the Interweb, like in the movie Tron, and he is searching for us but wicked adbots are chasing him and he needs our help."

Then I was thinking "The site will probably be down for a few days due to some technical glitch and it will come back and everybody will be like 'where did you go, man?'

Just to be safe I should update my e-mail for you, Mad, and we should have some kind of secret code for you to write on our monitors from within the grid before the wicked adbots can erase your code. Maybe something like "Get the F^*% off of Maxim and download "MadTown" before I kick your ass!" would be a good secret phrase.

Holy smokes Swede that's an awesome post. You have no pride man but compensate that with loads of imagination.

I was distraught; 'near panicked', dizzy with grief and imagining various scenarios of Packerrats disasters over the near two days that it was down. The cost of that downtime will be high.

Mae and I have to replace the carpet. Having worn down a path from the HD TV to the puter over the many times I tried to LINK Packerrats with frustration and howls of pain as success eluded me. My hair is thinner scrathin' my head, wondering how to make some contact to determine where Packerrats had gone. My face is all scratched and my teeth worn down.

On a brighter note. I didn't eat during that downtime so I feel slimmer.

[red]

server change my ass

i bet the mexican "forgot" to pay the bill

talk about cliche

i couldn't get into the site until today, i kept getting the error message. then i decided to hit the refresh button and it all came back

i also thought for a bit i was banned for dropping one too many f-bombs. i was like "fuck that noise man"

[pbmax]

You have my email...

Maybe. Was it for that article about the 1996 Packer team and the playoff chase in 2007?

Not sure I still have exchange filed anywhere.

Entirely forgot about Bretsky's suggestion, the emails associated with the Fantasy Leagues. Good point.

Seems to have gone down again for me this am and back five minutes ago. Only Woody posted in that window. Maybe Mad is Woody.

[pbmax]

Haha, I got your message and tried to reply multiple times but it was the only DM twitter kept giving me an error message on. Didn't want you to think I was ignoring you... my msg was that I would buy PackerRats if Mad can't afford to pay the hosting fee :lol:

I probably need to follow you back for that to work.

[woodbuck27]

Maybe. Was it for that article about the 1996 Packer team and the playoff chase in 2007?

Not sure I still have exchange filed anywhere.

Entirely forgot about Bretsky's suggestion, the emails associated with the Fantasy Leagues. Good point.

Seems to have gone down again for me this am and back five minutes ago. Only Woody posted in that window. Maybe Mad is Woody.

I'm fricken' well 'locked on'. This is the most exciting time of the NFL off season for me and sets up the draft.

[pbmax]

Site was down for me again late yesterday evening to early this morning. Anyone else?

[swede]

Site was down for me again late yesterday evening to early this morning. Anyone else?

I guess it is not so much that the site is down as it is that our browsers get pointed to servers that are not carrying the site.

Is that about it?

[MadtownPacker]

I guess it is not so much that the site is down as it is that our browsers get pointed to servers that are not carrying the site.

Is that about it?
Exactly.

PB if your on windows OS go to Start then Run and type COMMAND then hit enter. On the black DOS window type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS

Close and reopen your browser and you should be good.

[Patler]

Exactly.

PB if your on windows OS go to Start then Run and type COMMAND then hit enter. On the black DOS window type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS

Close and reopen your browser and you should be good.

Huh? Too complicated for a simple old fool like me, who also seems to lose the site every night.

[MadtownPacker]

Well its possible there is age discrimation by the site cuz it has been working for me and I have tested from several PC and devices.

Try these instructions and let me know if it fixes what ails yah!

http://www.ehow.com/how_5885061_flush-dns-windows-xp.html

[swede]

Huh? Too complicated for a simple old fool like me, who also seems to lose the site every night.

Dude. Trust him. If you lose the site every night your browser keeps walking into the wrong building and then tells you there is no such place as Packerrats. The directions Mad gave are straightforward. By doing exactly what he says you will tell your browser to stop going into the wrong building.

Except the browser is really looking for a server and not a building.

On the other hand I have had no luck getting my Mac redirected, but I haven't gotten advice as clear as yours.

[MadtownPacker]

http://osxdaily.com/2008/03/21/how-to-flush-your-dns-cache-in-mac-os-x/

Try that one you fucking Apple fanboy!

[red]

would just deleting the cookies fix that?

[MadtownPacker]

would just deleting the cookies fix that?
So you are having the same problem fuckhead?

I would say delete them too but likely wouldn't fix the issue. But give it a shot. I did both on Sunday and have not had any further issues.

[red]

So you are having the same problem fuckhead?

I would say delete them too but likely wouldn't fix the issue. But give it a shot. I did both on Sunday and have not had any further issues.

no, i got an error message saying the website was gone for 2 days after you switched. i just decided to hit the refresh button and the site popped back up

[pbmax]

Exactly.

PB if your on windows OS go to Start then Run and type COMMAND then hit enter. On the black DOS window type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS

Close and reopen your browser and you should be good.


Huh? Too complicated for a simple old fool like me, who also seems to lose the site every night.


Well its possible there is age discrimation by the site cuz it has been working for me and I have tested from several PC and devices.

Try these instructions and let me know if it fixes what ails yah!

http://www.ehow.com/how_5885061_flush-dns-windows-xp.html

Thanks for the tip Mad but I got there myself out of frustration; lost it again right after posting and reached same conclusion you did. It's a Mac but there is a way to flush the DNS there as well.

Worked like a charm since then. I suspect its uses the local cache if it does not get an immediate response from something more authoritative on the Net.

[pbmax]

Dude. Trust him. If you lose the site every night your browser keeps walking into the wrong building and then tells you there is no such place as Packerrats. The directions Mad gave are straightforward. By doing exactly what he says you will tell your browser to stop going into the wrong building.

Except the browser is really looking for a server and not a building.

On the other hand I have had no luck getting my Mac redirected, but I haven't gotten advice as clear as yours.


http://osxdaily.com/2008/03/21/how-to-flush-your-dns-cache-in-mac-os-x/

Try that one you fucking Apple fanboy!

Mad has that one right. That is the command for the Mac. Worked for me and 10.7

[pbmax]

Huh? Too complicated for a simple old fool like me, who also seems to lose the site every night.

Its pretty easy once you get there, Snoop. Worth it if its still giving you headaches. Like swede said, your little black phone book with all the scribbled out addresses and phone numbers has a bad number in it. You can erase it all in one command and it will get rebuilt as you browse the web.

[pbmax]

Exactly.

PB if your on windows OS go to Start then Run and type COMMAND then hit enter. On the black DOS window type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS

Close and reopen your browser and you should be good.

On Windows, I always use 'cmd' just to save time and avoid truncated names :)

[Patler]

Dude. Trust him. If you lose the site every night your browser keeps walking into the wrong building and then tells you there is no such place as Packerrats. The directions Mad gave are straightforward. By doing exactly what he says you will tell your browser to stop going into the wrong building.

Except the browser is really looking for a server and not a building.

On the other hand I have had no luck getting my Mac redirected, but I haven't gotten advice as clear as yours.

It has nothing to do with trust. First I had to figure out what the heck he was saying!

[MadtownPacker]

Dont sweat it P-Money. Swede just assumes all White men are like him and distrust Brownies. :lol:

[Little Whiskey]

so how do i fix my i-phone? I can only get on the site from my laptop.

[MadtownPacker]

Go to Settings icon then "Safari" then "clear cookies and data".

[Little Whiskey]

back up and running! thanks!