Is the Arch Wiki site having problems?

maples · 07-26-2014, 11:51 PM

Hi!
For the past few weeks, every now and then I would want to look something up on the Arch wiki, and I couldn't. It would either tell me that it couldn't reach the server, or it would sit and load forever and finally give up. The Arch wiki is the only site affected, the rest of the Internet works like normal, so I don't think it is a problem on my end. Has anyone else had this happen to them? Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks!

syg00 · 07-27-2014, 12:21 AM

Looks ok from this side of the globe. I go there irregularly, but don't recall an issue in the last few weeks.

replica9000 · 07-27-2014, 12:22 AM

I've been on it for the last week without issues.

frankbell · 07-27-2014, 08:27 PM

I have visited it several times this week and just now and have had no issues. You might try testing with a different browser and clearing your browser cache and cookies (though, frankly, I don't think it drops any cookies unless you actually log in).

maples · 07-27-2014, 09:47 PM

I guess it is something on my end...

I just cleared my cache, history, cookies, etc, and it still isn't working. I think that for whatever reason I'm not able to make a complete connection to the website. Midori just sits there loading forever. I've tried pinging it, but after about 5 minutes there was no response, not even a connection time out or connection reset. It doesn't seem to be a DNS issue, the ping command returns the IP address 78.46.78.247. Can someone check that and see if it's right?

I just tried it in Lynx, since it has somewhat verbose info about what's going on when going to webpages. After typing the address (wiki.archlinux.org, right?) and hitting enter, it hangs at "Making HTTP connection to wiki.archlinux.org"

Thanks!

EDIT: For the heck of it, I tried typing the IP address directly into the address bar. But it didn't make a difference.

EDIT 2: I noticed 2 similar threads listed at the bottom of the page. They both have the exact problem I have, but nobody ever replied about if they fixed it...

syg00 · 07-28-2014, 12:17 AM

That IP resolves to what looks like the German ISP itself - I get 5.9.250.164 for the wiki.

Habitual · 07-28-2014, 03:56 PM

looks familiar...

maples · 07-28-2014, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Habitual

looks familiar...

So it sounds like his problem was his router's DNS. My resolv.conf only had my router, but adding Google's namesevers didn't help.

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

That IP resolves to what looks like the German ISP itself - I get 5.9.250.164 for the wiki.

I typed that IP into the address bar, and now it takes me right there. And now when I try to ping wiki.archlinux.org, I get:

Code:

[anthony@newerLaptop ~]$ ping wiki.archlinux.org -c3
PING luna.archlinux.org (5.9.250.164) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from luna.archlinux.org (5.9.250.164): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=140 ms
64 bytes from luna.archlinux.org (5.9.250.164): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=141 ms
64 bytes from luna.archlinux.org (5.9.250.164): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=139 ms

--- luna.archlinux.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 139.689/140.402/141.440/0.866 ms

I don't know much about DNS, but I've heard of a DNS cache. If the wrong IP somehow got inside there, would that explain the symptoms? Now that I've typed the IP into my address bar, wiki.archlinux.org works just fine.

Habitual · 07-28-2014, 05:18 PM

"gremlins"?

maples · 07-28-2014, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Habitual

"gremlins"?

Or sisters...but mine don't even know how privileges and ownership works, only that they can't see my stuff. Actually, they don't even know where my stuff is...

frankbell · 07-28-2014, 08:57 PM

I happen to have Midori installed. I was able to connect to https://wiki.archlinux.org/ without issue.