can't connect to AltME ....
[1/9] from: petr::krenzelok::trz::cz at: 11-Jan-2004 18:57
Hi,
last two days I am not able to connect to AltME properly. It worked
yesterday in the evening, but is not working whole day today once again.
Anyone else got problems connecting to AltME?
thanks,
-pekr-<
[2/9] from: SunandaDH:aol at: 11-Jan-2004 13:12
Petr:
> last two days I am not able to connect to AltME properly. It worked
> yesterday in the evening, but is not working whole day today once again.
> Anyone else got problems connecting to AltME?
You are not alone. This is a me-too post! Exactly the same problem.
Also, it seems that altme.com and safeworlds.com websites are down.
I assume Altme has to do a request to altme.com to get the IP address of the
world. Thereafter (unless the IP address is dynamic), a session should work
without further reference to altme.com.
This (assuming my analysis is right) introduces a single point of failure,
with a couple of (immediately off the top of my head) approaches to alleviating
it:
-- Altme could have mirror servers, and look the world-name up on those
-- If altme.com (and mirrors) aren't available, the start up could try the
last-used IP address.
Altme is so useful, that it is really annoying when it doesn't work. I
shouldn't really complain though: it's free (at least the way I use it) so I'm
certainly getting value for money,
Sunanda.<
[3/9] from: didec:tiscali at: 11-Jan-2004 19:21
Re: can't connect to AltME ....
I think EVERYONE has problem to connect ;-)
ALTME use SafeWorld site/server to locale worlds. Their web server seems down so I think
that the "world locator server" too :((
Wait for tomorow !
DideC
[4/9] from: juan-carlos:miranda:wanadoo at: 11-Jan-2004 19:17
Same here.
Ping of www.altme.com shows a 100% loss.
Problem with the server it seems. :-?
Petr Krenzelok wrote:
[5/9] from: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 11-Jan-2004 20:05
[SunandaDH--aol--com] wrote:
>Petr:
>>last two days I am not able to connect to AltME properly. It worked
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>-- If altme.com (and mirrors) aren't available, the start up could try the
>last-used IP address.
Well, I was surprised of one thing - I looked at AltME rebol-view
config, and it actually contains IP adress, not a name! I checked agains
DNS setting using nslookup and IP was the same. So I wonder what is
going on? Simply their servers are down or they have problems with DNS
entries and it would not be for the first time IIRC, but maybe I
remember it incorrectly and it was RT who had problems with DNS some not
so long time ago?
-pekr-
[6/9] from: carlos:lorenz:bol at: 12-Jan-2004 17:18
It's ok here
Carlos
Em Dom 11 Jan 2004 15:57, you wrote:
[7/9] from: mmastroianni:fluentenergy at: 15-Jan-2004 12:20
Hi all,
A little off topic:
Is anyone else having problems
w/ the Alt-ME server ? Our hosted
world is down, and we cannot see
the REBOL world as well -- otherwise
our internet connectivity is fine ...
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Mastroianni
President, Fluent Energy
[mmastroianni--fluentenergy--com]
[8/9] from: tomc:darkwing:uoregon at: 15-Jan-2004 9:40
yes, it was down over the weekend and is down again this morning
it would be very nice if altme clients had a fallback mechinism
to find worlds (last connected, any previous, hand specified ...)
so altme.com was not a single point of failure it is now.
it is definatly eroding trust. I have just convinced a bunch of
relatives to migrate from MSN and they are feeling skeptical...
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Michael J. Mastroianni wrote:
[9/9] from: tomc:darkwing:uoregon at: 15-Jan-2004 10:01
One other note about when altme.com starts resolving worlds again.
You may still have to restart your worlds for them to be usable
(which is a pain for those who are not anywhere near the machines
the world runs on)
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Michael J. Mastroianni wrote:
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