umm.
I got this problem just now..

Quote:

phpBB : Critical Error Could not connect to the database

but i think it should be okay now.

The site was undergoing migration to another machine. The new IP is 208.101.46.249.

Sorry for the downtime. =/
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They installed a new security system on my computer at work, I thought I'd been busted

I am getting this error here and there. A simple refresh fixes it most of the time:

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Should be fine now. We were moving the database across to different locations. For a few hours they were located in different states. Now all should be fine?
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Genma wrote:

Should be fine now. We were moving the database across to different locations. For a few hours they were located in different states. Now all should be fine?

this is the first time in several months that i'm appropriately and consistently getting e-mail notifications for thread posts.

Haven't posted here in awhile...

Any news on the email activation problem? T_T Or am I doomed to never be able to log in again?

Can someone help??? I'm so desperate!!!
I can't get inside jdorama properly nowadays.. When I go into jdorama.com, there will be this message:"We have migrated JDorama.com to a new location... If its too complicated for you, please be patient and wait out a day or two. The new server should provide better speeds now. "
And when I go to another direct link there will be this message:"Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later."
So right now i'm using this page : http://208.101.46.249/
But whenever I log in, I get sent to the jdorama page with that message.
So can someone please help???!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Can someone help??? I'm so desperate!!! I can't get inside jdorama properly nowadays.. When I go into jdorama.com, there will be this message:"We have migrated JDorama.com to a new location... If its too complicated for you, please be patient and wait out a day or two. The new server should provide better speeds now. " And when I go to another direct link there will be this message:"Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later." So right now i'm using this page : http://208.101.46.249/ But whenever I log in, I get sent to the jdorama page with that message. So can someone please help???!!!

Talk to your isp about them not caching dns so long, it's an issue with them.

Genma wrote:

Got this reply from Singnet after... 2 weeks? Quote: Dear Sir The relevant department has gave us a feedback regarding you issue. We have made the necessary changes on our side and there should not be any problem for SingNet user accessing your website now. Kindly ask your customer to try again. Please inform us should you face the same issue again. Should you require further technical assistance, you may write to us online at http://home.singtel.com/customer_service/cust_serv_emailus.asp Thank you and regards. Yours sincerely Lee Heng Han Technical Service Officer SingNet Pte Ltd Company Registration Number 199802130W Right, anyone still getting the old server page now? Do let me know whether it had really been fixed. Thanks. Is time still a problem now? Server time wasn't changed apparently.

thx Genma

Its ok for me yesterday (4 July)... but today, everything went back to wat it used to be, I'm still getting the old server page

Seems like that isp caches dns for a very long time, they should correct their issue not just once but for good.

I think you may need to contact them again and ask them to stop caching dns for such along time, this can cause ALOT of problems not just on this website but anyone else who changes their dns records.

Anyone have any idea what to write to my ISP? I really dunno what to say to them..

Well, I'd tell them the problem. A web site changed IP address 1 week or 2 ago and you are still being forward to the old IP. Giving them the url and IP address might solve the problem faster.

Between you and me, they have a really bad configuration and problably should fire a few techs.
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There are tools for DNS (like the Unix command "dig") that allow you to query a nameserver and see what it thinks the timeouts are for things like address records. Which is to say, it's probably possible to figure out just where the old bogus information lives, so you can complain to the appropriate administrator. Usually when DNS caching issues happen, it's on the client machine, but if you rule that out, then it's likely to be a problem with the nameservers you use. If you tell me what nameservers you use, I can look at them with dig and see if they really are the problem.

Or if you want to try it yourself, you could take a look at the DIG Howto, which explains how to interpret the mysterious dig output and understand the timeout values (called TTL == "time to live").

Whoops. The above post was by me (��). I done fergotted to log in Ah guess.

Oh yeah. I forgot about it. Used it a few times on linux. Did a little search and found a port for Windows, but didn't test it.

http://www.chinese-watercolor.com/LRP/dig/

Thanks ��.
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Um.. How do I see which nameserver i have?
And I can hardly understand what the website's talking about..
It's all just too complicated for me..

Anonymous wrote:

Um.. How do I see which nameserver i have? And I can hardly understand what the website's talking about.. It's all just too complicated for me..

Do you run Windows XP? I'm strictly a Linux person myself, so I can try to help, but I hope I don't make a mistake.

I googled for instructions for XP, and it looks like the command to show your nameservers is "ipconfig /all".
(Click Start...Run....cmd....then type ipconfig /all at the command prompt).

Give that a try and let me know what your nameservers are. Or post the output if you don't understand it. And if you don't run XP, then tell us what OS you are running, and we can look up the instructions for it.

Hopefully, when we know your nameservers, I can query them with the dig command to see if they are using reasonable timeouts. If they are, then we know we have to continue looking elsewhere for the cause of your problem. If they aren't reasonable, then we have to contact your ISP to see what's up. It could take a little time and patience, but I'm sure we can get things sorted.

Or you could try your ISP help desk again. It really is their responsibility to make sure their users have good network connections.

Ok, The post above about how to find namservers on XP was by me again.

This time I logged in, entered my post, did a preview, didn't notice I'd been logged out, so when I posted, it was as guest. It's weird I was logged out so quickly.

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Ok, The post above about how to find namservers on XP was by me again. This time I logged in, entered my post, did a preview, didn't notice I'd been logged out, so when I posted, it was as guest. It's weird I was logged out so quickly. - ��

Maybe you have cookies disabled on your browser by default? I highly doubt that's the problem, but it's worth a shot, I guess.