PE Forums down!!!

I’ve been trying to access PE Forums all day. I keep getting the following message:

While trying to retrieve the URL:

The following error was encountered:

Connection Failed
The system returned:

(146) Connection refused
The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.

Does anyone know what’s going on?

JM-

I have heard rumor that BigAl is changing up software. Hopefully peforum will be up soon.

BA may have the site offline to do an upgrade or something. I can’t get anything to load, but doing a trace to the server shows no problems.

Try sending BA an email and see if he replies.

A couple of the forums over there now have that nice blue look these do. Maybe that’s what he’s up to.

We had a “DoS” attack yesterday :( I’m updating the patches as we speak. Everything should be back to normal at the PEForum soon.

PE Forums is back up and running. Because of past experiences with trolls sabotaging and taking the forum down, I tend to panic every time I can’t access the boards. Some of you long-time veterans know what I’m talking about; those times where months and months of posts, indeed the entire board, were wiped out by malicious trolls. Back in the days before Thundersplace.com, there was nowhere else to meet and regroup when that happened.

Big Al,

Apparently my fears were justified. Glad you were able to bring it all back.

….Who was that masked man?….

Anybody know what’s going on with PE Forums? I haven’t been able to access it all morning.

It’s working on my end…

Here’s the message I’ve been getting when trying to access PE Forums:

The requested URL could not be retrieved

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for https://www.peforum.net
The dnsserver returned:

Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query.
This means that:

The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
Check if the address is correct.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.

Generated Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:42:50 GMT by mentat (Squid/2.4.STABLE6)

It’s been down for me all day as well… :(

J

I get in, but it did take 2 tries this morning, sometime you need to hit the refresh button. I think the data base has some serious bugs, BA said he is getting some help to fix these problems.

Dino

J

I just noticed something I’m the only user on the peforum, so you might be right, I wonder whats going on?

I hit refresh there is 4 now

I couldn’t get in all day yesterday, and still can’t this a.m.