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Style/image issues

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  • 05-05-2010 2:15pm
    #1
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    For sometime now, iv noticed the mobile site takes an extra few seconds to load its appropriate style. However, it seems to now have completely disappeared and its not loading at all.

    Any ideas?


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I don't know if it's related but I'm finding the site to be kinda slow, lots of images aren't loading and the stylesheet for the beta menu isn't working right. This is happening on chrome and IE.


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    Conor
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    These two reports are possibly related to each other, and almost certainly not related to the issues last night.

    The server handling b-static.net has changed. It's possible you have stale DNS entries for it though. Both the old and new machines should be serving the content correctly, so the changeover should be seamless. Even if your browsers are incorrectly going to the old machine, it's still up and serving content.

    Do either of you have entries for b-static.net or static.boards.ie in your hosts file? Or are you behind a caching proxy? Or are you using DNS other than your ISP's?


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    Conor
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    Also, what do you see when you click on this link?

    http://b-static.net/vbulletin/images/buttons/post_thanks.gif


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    Kanye
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    Seems fine now.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Conor wrote: »
    Also, what do you see when you click on this link?

    http://b-static.net/vbulletin/images/buttons/post_thanks.gif

    "Oops! Google Chrome could not find b-static.net"

    Yup, seems to be a dns issue. I think I'm using google's dns servers so I might try switching them.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Yep, looking at it, Google appear to have dropped our record from their public DNS for some reason. Bizarre.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I switched to opendns and it's the exact same. I added 89.234.66.107 b-static.net to my hosts file and it has sorted some of the issues. Images show fine on thread but in my user cp they still won't show. Javascript doesn't seem to be working either. e.g. quick reply, multi-quote, clicking on a person's username brings you to their profile instead of showing the dropdown, beta menu shows fine but when you click on any of the categories it just brings you to the category.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Scrap that everything seems to be working now. Don't know if it's to do with opendns adding it b-static or if it's to do with me adding it to the hosts file but it's working and that's all I care about.


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    Conor
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    I switched to opendns and it's the exact same. I added 89.234.66.107 b-static.net to my hosts file and it has sorted some of the issues. Images show fine on thread but in my user cp they still won't show. Javascript doesn't seem to be working either. e.g. quick reply, multi-quote, clicking on a person's username brings you to their profile instead of showing the dropdown, beta menu shows fine but when you click on any of the categories it just brings you to the category.

    OpenDNS works fine for me at the moment. Going by this page, they have the correct data in all of their servers.

    For the other issues, a hard refresh of the page should sort it.


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    Conor, could you give a layman's explanation, or way to fix at the user end please?

    I don't really understand much in this thread at all.

    I'm with UPC if that helps


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    https://store.opendns.com/setup/operatingsystem/windows-vista

    Should help fix it.


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    _blank_
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    https://store.opendns.com/setup/operatingsystem/windows-vista

    Should help fix it.

    Oh, I'm on Mint


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Des wrote: »
    Oh, I'm on Mint
    Mint is a spin off from ubuntu if I remember correctly so try and give this a shot.

    https://store.opendns.com/setup/operatingsystem/ubuntu

    Alternatively, you could use this (https://store.opendns.com/setup/router/) and change your router. Might be the best thing to do as this will work for all computers connecting through your net connection.


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    Is it strange that this would happen on one machine, and not another, both connected via the same router?

    edit : or is it stranger that it would flip between happening/not happening on a Windows 7 Machine

    (will that Vista Fix work for Windows 7 do you think?)


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    Conor
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    Des wrote: »
    Is it strange that this would happen on one machine, and not another, both connected via the same router?

    Nope, they could both be using different DNS servers pretty easily.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Google have very kindly flushed their records for b-static.net for us so anyone using Google Public DNS should be OK now.


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Des wrote: »
    Is it strange that this would happen on one machine, and not another, both connected via the same router?

    edit : or is it stranger that it would flip between happening/not happening on a Windows 7 Machine

    (will that Vista Fix work for Windows 7 do you think?)

    It should work fine on windows 7 as they are very similar. Best to use this just to be on the safe side.

    https://store.opendns.com/setup/operatingsystem/windows-7


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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »

    Alternatively, you could use this (https://store.opendns.com/setup/router/) and change your router. Might be the best thing to do as this will work for all computers connecting through your net connection.

    This worked, thanks AC


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Des wrote: »
    This worked, thanks AC


    No worries, man.


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