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[Alexander Diaz]

I would have posted this in Off topic -> Website Support but... it wouldn't let me start a new thread... oddly.

I haven't seen anyone else complaining about this`but for about the last 30mins or so, when I've been trying to just generally browse the site and forums I'll get a:


"Oops! Google Chrome could not find mwomercs.com"


And before you trash Google Chrome... You're wrong.

Regardless, I recognize this could be a browser issue as that not all sites play nice with Chrome but, I've got 5 tabs open (MW: Tactics, Kotaku, Escapist, The Vile Facebook, and this one; duh) and none of the other sites are having this issue, nor have I ever seen this happen with this site before now.

Typically, right after attempting a reload of the page I'll see the site loads up as if it were hosted by GeoCities circa 2001. No background image, basic text and links, occasional "gif". So difficult to navigate that I wonder how I ever used the internet prior to HTML 2.0, then, out of nowhere, BAM... all-swell for the next couple mins.

Again, None of the other sites I'm browsing seems to be having the same issue.

'course, I'm no cpu guru. Just an old veteran of the interwebz. Just curious if something is happening that I'm unaware of... like something awesome! Like everyone is spamming their reload button in anticipation of some announcement I missed?

...or maybe they're just migrating hosts [shrugs]

...or maybe I shouldn't have had onions on my sandwhich, and they're trying to tell me something.

I don't know. I just know I'm having this issue tonight. Any ideas?

Also, if this needs to be migrated to Web Support, that would be cool. Have no idea why I can't post there.

[Fahr]

I have seen this exact behaviour before as well, and sometime it won't come back for a while. maybe a DNS issue rearing its head?

[Stray Ion]

A few days ago it wouldn't let me post in a thread, kept giving me an error about my post being too short. I do notice at times that these forums have loading trouble, but I have experienced it on other sites as well; so who knows.

Fahr, on 06 July 2012 - 07:32 PM, said:

I have seen this exact behaviour before as well, and sometime it won't come back for a while. maybe a DNS issue rearing its head?

I thought about that with the Alureon workaround being disabled soon.

[Insidious Johnson]

Fahr, on 06 July 2012 - 07:32 PM, said:

I have seen this exact behaviour before as well, and sometime it won't come back for a while. maybe a DNS issue rearing its head?

There was some DNS virus roaming around awhile back. Homeland Insecurity posted something about it and recently said they'd be pulling support to re-route infected computers. I can't remember the link but someone posted about it here recently. Sorry I'm not more helpful on this.