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[AlamoVampire]

5 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

No, the outage seems to have been another kind of issue. The 50x things fix themselves in a bit of time whereas the big thing required IT intervention. 

Ah. When it first happened ( “The Outage” or “Krakening” ) i thought perhaps it decided to shut it all down then reboot, but it went on long enough to make think it was a purge similar to the one of years ago. 183810292024 new page!

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[AlamoVampire]

Anyone else seeing an uptick recently in 502 errors or is it just me? Was seemingly calmed after the sudden two week down time but lately its seemingly surged…

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[Superfluous J]

2 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

Anyone else seeing an uptick recently in 502 errors or is it just me? Was seemingly calmed after the sudden two week down time but lately its seemingly surged…

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Yeah right after the forum came back I had 1, then nothing until just yesterday.

[James Kerman]

We also noted the same behavior.

[Lisias]

40 minutes ago, Superfluous J said:

Yeah right after the forum came back I had 1, then nothing until just yesterday.

Out of curiosity... Are you using IPv6 or IPv4? Your browser is using HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2?

I also noted that when trying to do a GET for a page under these events, I get a blank screen, but when the problem happens while doing a  POST with a comment, I get that fancy 502 page from Cloudflare...

There's a cache being implemented somewhere?

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[Mr. Kerbin]

Not about 502s but

WHY DO WE HAVE THIS EMOJI 

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WE DON’T EVEN HAVE A NORMAL HEART EMOJI!

[Gargamel]

1 hour ago, Mr. Kerbin said:

Not about 502s but

WHY DO WE HAVE THIS EMOJI 

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WE DON’T EVEN HAVE A NORMAL HEART EMOJI!

That is what a normal Kerbal heart looks like.   Why do you think they're green?

[Superfluous J]

2 hours ago, Lisias said:

Out of curiosity... Are you using IPv6 or IPv4? Your browser is using HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2?

I have no idea if I'm using ipv6 or 4. I have a local ipv6 and a local ipv4 address so... yes?

Firefox using HTTP/2

2 hours ago, Lisias said:

fancy 502 page

The page I get cannot be described as "fancy" by any means.

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502 Bad Gateway

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nginx/1.20.1

 

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[kerbiloid]

On 11/12/2024 at 4:56 AM, Lisias said:

I also noted that when trying to do a GET for a page under these events, I get a blank screen, but when the problem happens while doing a  POST with a comment, I get that fancy 502 page from Cloudflare...

Interesting.
It's semi-declared that Roskomnadzor is going to block CloudFlare in Russia.

Aren't these two things somehow connected?..

Hasn't CloudFlare modified something? Isn't CloudFlare somehow touched from somewhere?

[Lisias]

On 11/13/2024 at 3:16 AM, kerbiloid said:

Interesting.
It's semi-declared that Roskomnadzor is going to block CloudFlare in Russia.

Aren't these two things somehow connected?..

Hasn't CloudFlare modified something? Isn't CloudFlare somehow touched from somewhere?

Hummm... You know, it may be a routing problem, indeed.

I just got bitten by a CloudFlare 1015 error message ("You are being restricted") clicking the Reload Page while getting the NGINX error message. Interesting enough, I never got the 1015 while clicking Reload on that white blank page that I get sometimes.

This may suggest we have more then one problem biting our collective arses:

1. The blank page, that by some reason is not being counted on the hits per minute cap (that fires up a 1015 in our faces)
2. A NGINX 500 message, that are being counted on the cap.

Wild guess, but... Are the Forum's server currently under a rotating IP scheme or something like that? The server rotating IP before warning CloudFlare may be the white blank page explanation (if CF could not hit the target server, it would not count it on the cap), while if the CloaudFlare is warned about the new IP before the new frontend is ready, CF would get the NGINX error message and, so, will consider it a successful hit and count the access into the cap.

You know... This may be a configuration problem on the Docker or LXC or whatever is being used as a container nowadays.

[PDCWolf]

40 minutes ago, Lisias said:

Hummm... You know, it may be a routing problem, indeed.

I just got bitten by a CloudFlare 1015 error message ("You are being restricted")

I did not get to read because it was... barely enough time to process the image but I'm sure I saw a different error in a single instance before the page switched (not refreshed, switched, or redirected itself) to the usual 502.

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, Lisias said:

CloudFlare

It's said that CloudFlare has started using TLS ECH protocol several weeks ago for webpages hosted on its servers.

Maybe it's somehow related.

Maybe they did it after a year of testing, when the errors started appearing.

[AlamoVampire]

I swear the 502 bad gateway thing has gotten even worse since the forums came back up. Not gonna lie but its giving me concerns for the longevity of the forums. Can IT do anything to fix it?

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[Gargamel]

1 minute ago, AlamoVampire said:

I swear the 502 bad gateway thing has gotten even worse since the forums came back up. Not gonna lie but its giving me concerns for the longevity of the forums. Can IT do anything to fix it?

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Problem is, to get to IT, it's kind of a telephone game to reach them.  The message has been passed on, they have said they're working on it, but with KSP not being a viable product for them, and with the looming acquisition, we're so far down on the priority list, I wouldn't hold your breath.   They've said they think they know what's going on, but it seems akin to entering the numbers in the bunker from LOST, so.... I dunno. 

[AlamoVampire]

47 minutes ago, Gargamel said:

we're so far down on the priority list, I wouldn't hold your breath.

Frankly as sad as it is to say every time i see the 502 (which seems to be every other time i try to come here) i fully expect the next time i try to see a message stating the sites been shutdown. Heck that was what i thought when the forum crashed this last time. Do I hope they fix it? Yes. Do I think they will? No. Can I hope? To quote Matt Mercer of Critical Role: 

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