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Title: Waiting for geekhack.org ...
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 24 January 2014, 03:26:59
Sometimes I get the message "Waiting for geekhack.org ..." in the status bar at the bottom of my browser and a blank page, that lasts for anything up to about 5 minutes.  THis happens when I post a reply, click to mark all threads read, click the home page link - anything basically.

At first I thought it was my crappy internet connection dropping out again, but it happened a few minutes ago and I was able to browse dozens of other sites, do a download, and watch YouTube videos, all while GH was not responding.

Invariably all GH pages eventually open, and usually all at the same time.

It's like GH accepts any posts I send it, then completely refuses to send anything back to me for a few minutes.  Then suddenly comes good again.

Like it happened a few minutes ago (if anyone wants to get a timestamp from this post).

Screen like this one (except the status bar at the bottom of the window did not appear in the screen capture):

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Title: Re: Waiting for geekhack.org ...
Post by: Zeal on Fri, 24 January 2014, 03:44:17
I believe I've also had the site stall for a bit, refusing to load while I am able to browse other sites in different tabs. It usually fixes itself within a minute or two though.
Title: Re: Waiting for geekhack.org ...
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 24 January 2014, 06:43:46
Yeah my multiple GH tabs freeze up all the time, every other site works just fine however.
Title: Re: Waiting for geekhack.org ...
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 26 January 2014, 16:10:41
It just disappeared again then, for about 4 minutes.

I tried to traceroute to it during the outage and afterwards, but all attempts stopped at hop 14:

[...]
 7  ae1.cr1.cbr1.on.ii.net (150.101.33.24)  43.869 ms  43.832 ms  43.861 ms
 8  ae0.cr1.cbr2.on.ii.net (150.101.33.7)  43.907 ms  43.949 ms  43.996 ms
 9  ae2.br1.syd4.on.ii.net (150.101.33.22)  44.059 ms  56.755 ms  27.061 ms
10  te0-0-0-1.br1.lax1.on.ii.net (203.16.213.69)  198.311 ms  198.321 ms  198.288 ms
11  eqix.lsan.twtelecom.net (206.223.123.36)  206.680 ms  206.713 ms  230.859 ms
12  ind1-ar4-xe-0-0-0-0.us.twtelecom.net (66.192.254.242)  276.480 ms  250.832 ms  249.748 ms
13  238.static.twtelecom.net (207.250.76.238)  243.830 ms  243.756 ms  243.743 ms
14  9.65.111.240.in-addr.arpa.lldc.net (65.111.240.9)  259.822 ms  260.484 ms  242.754 ms

So that is probably not much help.