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It looks like one of the servers is not responding. There is a logical cluster of a.practicalmachinist.com, b.practicalmachinist.com... that respond in round-robin, and the a machine is dead. Turning off javascript disables the round-robin from the client side and you're able to get right in.
bash-3.2$ traceroute www.practicalmachnist.com
traceroute: Warning: www.practicalmachnist.com has multiple addresses; using 66.45.254.244
traceroute to www.practicalmachnist.com (66.45.254.244), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets (it timed out)
Same test to 209.216.209.188 (b.practicalmachinist.com) worked fine.
It looks like one of the servers is not responding. There is a logical cluster of a.practicalmachinist.com, b.practicalmachinist.com... that respond in round-robin, and the a machine is dead. Turning off javascript disables the round-robin from the client side and you're able to get right in.
It's fine if you have NoScript.
Another Javascript Ad? I thought that's the reason American Machinist left?
There's a failed server that is called by javascript. It's surprising it's gone on this long which makes me wonder if it's a technical problem. The problem is symptomatic of round-robin dns solutions but that turns out not to be the case.
There's a couple userland solutions: Edit your local host table to give a.practicalmachinist.com the same IP as practicalmachinist.com (don't forget to undo it later), or disable javascript using browser options or NoScript (for FireFox).
Yep - stone dead just now. Was on a few minutes ago and it was fine. Now only the front page is loading the "click here to continue" machine. Looks like somebody's working on it now.
It was slow as a snail yesterday,they were aware of a problem but could not locate it.I hope that the problem has been located and is now being repaired,I am having withdrawl symptoms!
FWIW, PM is now back to blazing fast on I.E. browser but curiously still slow on Firefox... unless javascript is disabled, in which case it's blazin fast too.
At least for me...one member reported FF is fast with javascript enabled for him.... so strange.
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