talkmagic.co.uk

by **Tomo** » Jul 18th, '07, 19:31

I don't know if anyone else is affected, but if anyone has a friend emailing them to ask if TalkMagic is down, it's not.

My ISP's DNS server has suddenly stopped resolving "www.talkmagic.co.uk". I don't know if this is unique to Orange (just registering when you start broadband in the morning can be painful, so it may just be their cr*ppy servers) or whether there's a wider DNS problem, but if you enter "talkmagic.co.uk" without the "www" it resolves fine and whoever has a problem can get back to the best magic forum on the net.

by **Michael Jay** » Jul 18th, '07, 19:39

Yea, it whacked out on me too. I did a re-start to deal with it, though...

Internet glitches - just a part of the computer age that you learn to live with, eh?

Mike.

by **Tomo** » Jul 18th, '07, 23:56

It's very odd. The rest of t'internet seems fine. Everything resolves perfectly.

by **Jae** » Jul 19th, '07, 01:21

I've had no problem here but a certain furry magic forum is currently refusing to update at the moment! :cry:

by **beeno** » Jul 19th, '07, 01:32

adding

66.199.181.87 talkmagic.co.uk

to your hosts file might help. Just search the Windows folder for "hosts", and open it in notepad. Although the IP alone doesn't seem to cut it. Is that the correct IP?

by **Tomo** » Jul 19th, '07, 11:05

I've found an alternative DNS service called OpenDNS. It's fast and it resolves www.talkmagic.co.uk no problem, which is nice.

It seems that MB is actually down, though.

by **Rob** » Jul 19th, '07, 11:13

Yup MB confirmed as dead from my end too :shock:

by **I.D** » Jul 19th, '07, 11:26

indeed, the bunny has been boiled it seems :shock:

by **Michael Jay** » Jul 19th, '07, 16:41

The bunny decided to do a Blaine styled stunt. It was boiled for 10 hours, emerged completely physically drained, went to the hospital immediately (without goodbyes or waves to the crowd) and two hours after that is back up and running.

Not to worry, though, Bunny doesn't get the huge amount of traffic that it used to, so there weren't any real withdrawal symptoms of the membership...Unlike here at TM, which 12 hours would have seemed closer to a lifetime! :wink:

(Please don't take that second paragraph for sarcasm, as none was intended.)

Mike.

by **Mandrake** » Jul 19th, '07, 23:50

Sorry to hear of the problems but has anyone bought the water MB was boiled in? It could sell for mega bucks in lots of little glass phials

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