Problem with previewing images. (Not site issue, just on my pc)

ianfontinell

@frostycab are you using a custom dns provider?

frostycab

@ianfontinell Erm..... no? DNS server assignment is set to automatic.

ianfontinell

@frostycab if your issue started right when ipv6 was introduced for the tracker, this could very well be a bad router, but in that case i don't think there's much you can do.

next time you can't see thumbnails, try to access pic.gaytor.rent to see if it will timeout or give some other error code. when the site is reachable you should get a 403 message, anything else indicate a bad router.

frostycab

@ianfontinell said:

pic.gaytor.rent

I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks. Got a 403 error just now and pics are working since I recently rebooted. I'll see what it does later.

frostycab

@ianfontinell Just tried it again. Pics have disappeared and I can't reach pic.gaytor.rent. I'm guessing that this confirms your suspicions? (Even thouygh I don't understand any of them. LOL)

ianfontinell

@frostycab said:

@ianfontinell Just tried it again. Pics have disappeared and I can't reach pic.gaytor.rent. I'm guessing that this confirms your suspicions? (Even thouygh I don't understand any of them. LOL)

Specially considering that rebooting the router always fixes the problem, and with uptime it eventually resurfaces, I would say bad router indeed.

frostycab

@ianfontinell Ah! I haven't rebooted the router itself. When I mentioned rebooting I meant the PC.

ianfontinell

@frostycab yeah that changes things a bit

frostycab

@ianfontinell Cleared cookies again, and have now rebooted PC AND router. Will have to see if things improve. It would be odd if it is the router though, as rebooting just the PC fixes it, at least temporarily. Fingers crossed, and I appreciate the help.

ianfontinell

@frostycab said:

@ianfontinell Cleared cookies again, and have now rebooted PC AND router. Will have to see if things improve. It would be odd if it is the router though, as rebooting just the PC fixes it, at least temporarily. Fingers crossed, and I appreciate the help.

Yes it's leaning more towards a bad DNS request. So next time it comes up, use cmd to erase the dns cache and see if it the pic.gaytor.rent domain start connecting again

Use "ipconfig /flushdns" in cmd when the problem come back.
if this command alone fix the problem, maybe switching to a different dns provider will resolve it more permanently.

MrMazda

FWIW: I sometimes have this very problem. I have noticed a pattern to it though. When the network load of the server gets to a certain point, I start noticing some interesting behaviour, including this very issue.

Simply put, when the network load level gets too high, not only does this very thing happen for me, but I often get random "Network Error" messages pop up here and there. In some cases, there is even a delay in the pages loading, and it seems that it takes some time to actually process the request and begin to render the content.

Perhaps this issue may be in intermittent issue related to the network demand of the server? Specifically, due to the high load levels, there is a delay or in some cases, even a time out that occurs, resulting in the content not displaying as intended?

@Joker have you heard about this? The frequency at which this happens is often not consistent. I only finally put 2 & 2 together on this issue when I ran into a situation where instead of getting delays (among other strange issues), I actually ran into a full page error message about the network load level being too high. It was a "too many requests" page that more or less said that the page could not be retrieved because the network load level was too high, though I don't get this message very often. Sometimes, the problem lasts all day, while other days, it only happens here and there once in a while, but then goes away. The "Network Error" messages are most common in the messages app.