bsmither Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 So, today I experienced the same issue I had a few weeks ago - I wasn't able to connect to the forums. The prior time, I blamed it on supposed maintenance downtime. But today as well? It happened at a local watering hole where there is free wi-fi. There is a captive portal where you have to agree to ToS, etc, etc. I was always able to get to the forums using this free service prior to Mar 1, give or take. This time, I ran a traceroute and the results showed I could get to the server hosting these forums. But, from watching WireShark, I saw that all SYN packets were immediately answered with RST,ACK packets. So, was there a server configuration change that closes the connection on some rule that does not like captive portal middle-man packets? It is strange that, at the watering hole, I was trying to connect to 45.32.179.53, but back in my office, I am connecting to a different IP address (belonging to Cloudflare). Could it be that the DNS server used by the watering hole has not been updated? (Getting to Google, Github, works - albeit a bit slowly.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 No changes here Brian. The forums run off a VPS at Digital Ocean using cloudflair for DNS. I'm not aware of any problems and no service monitors have been fired. I wonder what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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