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  • is eternal september down

    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Dec 21 21:23:52 2019

    Well obviously not now... I'm posting

    But for several days I have had no connection, which raises the old
    problem is it me or them


    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com said that eternal september was
    down, which exonerated my setup.

    Even though their website was up??

    But today eternal september is up.


    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com still says it's down.

    Are you all mad or is it me. Is there another useless tool that can tell
    me that :-)

    regards


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    faeychild
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    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sat Dec 21 21:45:12 2019
    On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 08:23:52 +1100, faeychild wrote:

    Well obviously not now... I'm posting

    But for several days I have had no connection, which raises the old
    problem is it me or them


    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    Yup,

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com said that eternal september was
    down, which exonerated my setup.

    Even though their website was up??

    But today eternal september is up.


    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com still says it's down.

    Are you all mad or is it me. Is there another useless tool that can tell
    me that :-)

    Not without the app attempting to connect.

    Since I use slrn for my Usenet reader it gives me an informative failure message


    Possible protocol error

    Run-Time Error
    error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

    SSL_connect failed

    slrn fatal error:
    Failed to initialize server.


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  • From Daniel60@2:250/1 to All on Sun Dec 22 00:48:59 2019
    faeychild wrote on 22/12/19 08:23:

    Well obviously not now... I'm posting

    But for several days I have had no connection, which raises the old
    problem is it me or them

    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com  said that eternal september was
    down, which exonerated my  setup.

    Even though their website was up??

    But today eternal september is up.


    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com  still says it's down.

    Are you all mad or is it me. Is there another useless tool that can tell
    me that  :-)

    regards

    feaychild, I use E-S for my UseNet browsing/posting and I've not
    experienced any problems with them for some time.

    Do E-S use distributed Servers, allowing for a particular server to be
    down, effecting you, but we, who connect to other servers, see no problems??

    --
    Daniel

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  • From Daniel60@2:250/1 to All on Sun Dec 22 06:47:46 2019
    Daniel60 wrote on 22/12/2019 11:48 AM:
    faeychild wrote on 22/12/19 08:23:

    Well obviously not now... I'm posting

    But for several days I have had no connection, which raises the old
    problem is it me or them

    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com  said that eternal september was
    down, which exonerated my  setup.

    Even though their website was up??

    But today eternal september is up.

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com  still says it's down.

    Are you all mad or is it me. Is there another useless tool that can
    tell me that  :-)

    regards

    feaychild, I use E-S for my UseNet browsing/posting and I've not
    experienced any problems with them for some time.

    Or should I have typed "I *normally* use E-S for my UseNet
    browsing/posting ..."?

    I'm currently dog-sitting for my sister's family, so making use of their Wi-Fi!!

    --
    Daniel

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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/1 to All on Sun Dec 22 14:17:51 2019
    On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 08:23:52 +1100, faeychild wrote:

    Well obviously not now... I'm posting

    But for several days I have had no connection, which raises the old
    problem is it me or them


    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com said that eternal september was
    down, which exonerated my setup.

    Even though their website was up??

    But today eternal september is up.


    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com still says it's down.

    Are you all mad or is it me. Is there another useless tool that can tell
    me that :-)

    I have been temporarily unable to connect to eternal-september two or
    three times in the past two or three weeks. A few hours later or the
    next morning it would be back.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

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    UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely expects users to be computer-
    friendly.

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Sun Dec 22 14:29:16 2019
    On 12/21/19 4:23 PM, faeychild wrote:

    Well obviously not now... I'm posting

    But for several days I have had no connection, which raises the old
    problem is it me or them


    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    No problems here, though I only check in now and then. It could easily
    be that they were down at the times when I didn't try to use it.

    TJ

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  • From Daniel60@2:250/1 to All on Mon Dec 23 04:43:43 2019
    TJ wrote on 23/12/19 01:29:
    On 12/21/19 4:23 PM, faeychild wrote:

    Well obviously not now... I'm posting

    But for several days I have had no connection, which raises the old
    problem is it me or them

    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    No problems here, though I only check in now and then. It could easily
    be that they were down at the times when I didn't try to use it.

    TJ

    I'm the same, usually only connecting to E-S during the evenings here in
    East Australia.

    For all I know, the E-S servers might all be dead for the other eighteen hours, or parts there of! ;-)

    --
    Daniel

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Dec 24 21:06:11 2019
    On 22/12/19 8:45 am, Bit Twister wrote:

    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    Yup,

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com said that eternal september was
    down, which exonerated my setup.


    The test site still says it's down.
    Ping says it's up

    news eternal is working

    Which is a 50% hit rate regarding reliable tools.
    Nothing is ever guaranteed, I suppose.

    Ignoring death and taxes, of course.

    Run many tests




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    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.4.2-desktop-1.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Tue Dec 24 22:31:46 2019
    On 12/24/19 4:06 PM, faeychild wrote:
    On 22/12/19 8:45 am, Bit Twister wrote:

    Doubts are raised because I could ping the site.

    Yup,

    https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com  said that eternal september was
    down, which exonerated my  setup.


    The test site still says it's down.
    Ping says it's up

    news eternal is working

    Which is a 50% hit rate regarding reliable tools.
    Nothing is ever guaranteed, I suppose.

    Ignoring death and taxes, of course.

    Run many tests




    The test site you provide tells me that eternal-september.org is down,
    too. Yet Firefox has no problem connecting and showing the home page.

    I suggest you re-evaluate the reliability of your tools.

    TJ



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