Do YBW servers have a problem?

[Greenheart]

What does the following, mean?

Oops! Internet Explorer could not find www.ybw.com

Does anyone else get this message, quite often?

I mean, whose fault is it? I want somebody, or something to be angry with. It happens more and more frequently...

...twenty minutes of carefully considered, deftly-phrased response to earlier contributions…utterly lost when I hit ‘submit’.

I’ve even begun saving my replies before submitting, because the system lets me down so often.

Of course, I forget to, when it really matters.

 

[snooks]

Of course, I forget to, when it really matters.

Posts really matter?

Since when? I think I missed that bit

 

[[70521]]

Never get that, I usually write long replies locally before doing a copy and paste just incase "Sods Law" takes place.

 

[sarabande]

best to write your essay on your normal word processor app, then cut and paste. The servers are well trained to excommunicate people whose link appears to go on too long without any activity.

 

[Greenheart]

Posts really matter?

Since when? I think I missed that bit

Speak for your own!

Sorry. I find it very infuriating. It matters to me.

 

[prv]

I mean, whose fault is it?

The YBW servers do get a bit flakey occasionally, but not as often as your problem seems to suggest.

I haven't had a computer that would run Internet Explorer for donkeys' years, but the message you quote (can't find the server) sounds like a DNS error rather than a server problem. That's like you phoning 118 118 to ask for IPC's phone number, and them saying "sorry, don't have a number for them". The IPC receptionist might be poised at the ready behind a working phone line, but without the number you never get as far as dialling them.

You could try changing your DNS settings (like calling a different directory enquiries service) to use a server different to the apparently-flakey one that your ISP provides. Google have one, if you don't share some people's understandable faint paranoia about them; instructions here. There are others.

Pete

 

[Greenheart]

Thanks Pete, and others. I'll look at recalibrating my search-engine...or whatever it is, letting me down. SWMBO's department.

 

[kyleview]

Thanks Pete, and others. I'll look at recalibrating my search-engine...or whatever it is, letting me down. SWMBO's department.

Never have a problem - maybe you should change over to Firefox. I have been using it for years and find it excellent.

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

What does the following, mean?

Oops! Internet Explorer could not find www.ybw.com

Does anyone else get this message, quite often?

I mean, whose fault is it? I want somebody, or something to be angry with. It happens more and more frequently...

...twenty minutes of carefully considered, deftly-phrased response to earlier contributions…utterly lost when I hit ‘submit’.

I’ve even begun saving my replies before submitting, because the system lets me down so often.

Of course, I forget to, when it really matters.

If you have a mates email ask them for a link,they can double check

 

[little_roundtop]

I agree that this is almost certainly a DNS error (DNS = Domain Name System). Is it only YBW it's happening with or do you get the same error for other sites? If you're getting a lot of these (and even if they just happen with YBW) I would suggest you contact the support people at your ISP, you will (almost certainly) be using their DNS servers which makes it their problem.

You can change the DNS servers you use but you need to know exactly what you're doing if you change these addresses, if you get it wrong your Internet access will disappear into the proverbial black-hole.

 

[Greenheart]

Thanks for those thoughts. I really am in over my head, tech-wise!

 

[BrendanS]

Sarabande is correct. If you are taking 20 minutes to write a post, then the forums will time out as typing if not forum activity, and you'll need to log back in, this will happen automatically if you have remember me ticked, but you will probably lose the post before the reconnection happens. You may have DNS issues as well, but the inactivity is certainly going to cause some issues

 

[VicS]

For the reasons Brendan gives its always worthwhile just doing the copy part of a copy and paste with a long post/reply.
If it goes tits up you can simply paste in what you have copied.

 

[Greenheart]

The reason I believed that the fault is not in my own set-up, is that when the connection fails, I’ve often tried opening an entirely new Google page, just searching for ‘YBW forum’…and I always get exactly the same dead-end.

So, while I agree that I often might have ‘timed-out’ when I click ‘submit’, there’s clearly a wider problem occurring, because the whole forum site is temporarily unavailable to me.

I imagined that at those times, the forum’s servers were failing. The fact that after a period, my computer does locate the page, led me to think that the problem had by then been corrected...

My PC was SWMBO's, and her replacement runs the same programming (as far as I understand it!), though SWMBO can be rather reluctant to adopt updates to the system. So we may both be slightly out of date...