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Avatar server issues

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  • 06-05-2013 12:34pm
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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭


    This doesn't seem to be responding today, & no avatar is showing beside my username in the floating bar.

    Its causing page loading to hang, & the 'go to new post' button brings me to the new post but because the page hasn't loaded properly, the post is only half visible until I scroll to see the whole thing.


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    #2
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Was just about to report this.


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    #3
    Boards.ie: Rónán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Boards.ie: Rónán


    I'll do my best to look into this today, away from home on a laptop atm though, so may have to hold out until I'm back in the office tomorrow morning.


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    #4
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,341 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Same here. Pages taking ages to load. Started around 4 this morning. Thought it was Opera playing up but obviously not.


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    #5
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Getting the same here too. Adblocking avatar.b-static.net will work until it gets properly fixed.


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    #6
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Also having this issue.


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    #7
    Boards.ie: Rónán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Boards.ie: Rónán


    We're working on this now


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    #8
    Boards.ie: Rónán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Boards.ie: Rónán


    Issues on avatar.b-static should be resolved now, thanks for the reports


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    #9
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    This problem seems to be back again.


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    #10
    Boards.ie: Rónán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Boards.ie: Rónán


    Everything seems fine here, you're positive its avatar.b-static?


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    #11
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    It was a bit slow earlier, but seems to have settled down.


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    #12
    Boards.ie: Rónán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Boards.ie: Rónán


    Afaik we dropped a webnode back into production this morning after some time out for updates, I'm guessing it probably had something to do with that.

    I'll leave this marked as resolved for now, but will keep an eye on it. Any further issues just let me know, thanks for the heads up.


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Boards.ie: Rónán wrote: »
    Everything seems fine here, you're positive its avatar.b-static?

    It definitely was. Out to lunch atm. I'll check again when I get back to the office.


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    #14
    Boards.ie: Rónán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭Boards.ie: Rónán


    Yep have confirmed it here, not sure what the issue is atm, will take a better look into it now this afternoon hopefully. Thanks for the heads up.


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    #15
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Seems ok now but appears intermittent. One refresh had a delay with b-static and the next one was fine.


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    #16
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Just a bump to say this is happening for me again. I don't know if it's related, but I'm seeing intermittent packet loss to 89.234.66.105, but not from the previous hop 193.242.111.20 (Digiweb's INEX gateway).


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    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    We've no known issues with b-static.net right now, nor the .105 load balancer - Just ran some tests there, including a 5 minute 400 packet ping, 0% packet loss. Are you going over IPv4 or IPv6?


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »
    We've no known issues with b-static.net right now, nor the .105 load balancer - Just ran some tests there, including a 5 minute 400 packet ping, 0% packet loss. Are you going over IPv4 or IPv6?
    IPv4 to b-static.net (no AAAA record), IPv6 to boards.ie.

    It could be 'Internet weather' here; I'll do some more pinging and keep you posted.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Hm, no packet loss now, but also not seeing problems with b-static, so I'm guessing they were related. I'll keep a trace running and check with the net-heads here.

    Cheers!


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    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    Thanks, I just saw a very long request come in to b-static from our development server so perhaps there is something up. Will keep an eye on it from our end too, cheers for the heads up.

    Danny


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    #21
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,613 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    I'm also having intermittment problems with avatar.b-static, and sometimes b.scorecardresearch

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    #22
    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    28064212 wrote: »
    I'm also having intermittment problems with avatar.b-static, and sometimes b.scorecardresearch

    We don't control scorecardresearch but will keep an eye on their response times. Cheers for confirming the issues with the avatar server


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    #23
    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    I'm re-opening this, we definitely have an issue with our avatar server at this time.

    Danny


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    #24
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    avatar.b-static.net is borked again. No packet loss, seems to be an application layer issue.


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    #25
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,206 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    ^ What he said. No idea where the issue is arising though! :)

    No impact on page load times, which is good. Edit: It means a back-click to a page arrived at via 'Last Post in thread' or a click on a 'Specific Post in a user's post history' hangs at the top of the relevant page though (rather than rendering the post in question).

    Edit:Also an issue with Read s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

    Edit #2 Same for b.scorecardresearch.com

    Not your ornery onager



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    #26
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,014 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Im having the same problem since yesterday evening/last night. Avatar isn't displaying and I notice also that each tab I have opened has the little green circle spinning round indicating that the page is still loading. Sorry if thats a poor description but Im not into the technical stuff.

    Using Firefox 24.0 if thats relevant

    Edit/ its just the little avatar up near top right of page


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    #27
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,657 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Same issues here.


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    #28
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Yep same here. Pages are not loading to the right position, back brings you to the top of the last page, no avatar loading in the top bar etc


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    #29
    Cass
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Same issues being discussed here.
    Forum Charter - Useful Information - Photo thread: Hardware - Ranges by County - Hunting Laws/Important threads - Upcoming Events - RFDs by County

    If you see a problem post use the report post function. Click on the three dots on the post, select "FLAG" & let a Moderator deal with it.

    Moderators - Cass otmmyboy2 , CatMod - Shamboc , Admins - Beasty , mickeroo



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    #30
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    I'm getting the same thing with peoples avatars beside their posts. For example if I click Mufflers profile page I see his avatar is Mutley. Yet on this thread under his name is the words "Mufflers Avatar". Its the same for everyone else on every page.
    Windows 7 home premium firefox 24.0.1


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    #31
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Gone again. Again no packet loss.


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