I can't get to the Laz bugtracker or www.freepascal.org <http://www.freepascal.org/> . It's been that way for a month or so now and I've tried different computers, browsers and ISP's and nothing works. It just sits there saying "Waiting for www.freepascal.org <http://www.freepascal.org/> ". Does anyone else have that problem?

Note I can get to www.lazarus.freepascal.org
<http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/> and the Free Pascal wiki (e.g., http://wiki.freepascal.org/iPhone/iPod_development).

I don't think it's a bandwidth issue on my side. Windows tells me now that my wireless signal strength is "Excellent" and my connection speed is 54.0 Mbps. I also don't have this problem with any other Web site that I've tried in the last few weeks.

Thanks.

-Phil

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I just went there, and it's fine.

Have you checked, if it is DNS, or connectivity?
http://62.166.198.202 => should get you to the bugtracker.

If it does, you can put the IP in your host file (until you know why you DNS server does not resolve this) If it's in your host file, it should work for www too.

No problem from here (Firefox/WinXP).
Could it be your firewall or antivirus software?

Howard Page-Clark

Hess, Philip J ?????:

You can try http://mantis.freepascal.org/
I think these connectivity problems are related to your ISP.

No difference by specifying the IP address. Just sits there.

Thanks.

-Phil

I've tried this on Windows, OS X 10.4, OS X 10.5, iPod touch, with all possible browsers, and with several ISP's. Just sits there.

Thanks.

-Phil

Just tried it with a different ISP and mantis.freepascal.org as you suggest. Just sits there.

Thanks.

-Phil

Hi Phil,
Since you have tried different computers, browsers, and ISP's, maybe it is a country of origin issue?

What country are you trying to reach the site from?

It works for me (Australia)...

cheers,
Paul

In the for-what-it's-worth category:

On a Mac at home, ping, traceroute and whois all return reasonable results for 62.166.198.202:

ping -o 62.166.198.202
PING 62.166.198.202 (62.166.198.202): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 62.166.198.202: icmp_seq=0 ttl=45 time=261.295 ms

--- 62.166.198.202 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 261.295/261.295/261.295/nan ms

But entering 62.166.198.202 in any browser just hangs. Or actually, all hang browsers except for iCab (www.icab.de), which eventually times out:

Network Error
An error occurred while accessing "62.166.198.202". The Server did not respond within a certain time. Maybe the server is down. (Network Error #-1001)

Does this make any sense?

Thanks.

-Phil

Philip J wrote

In the for-what-it's-worth category:

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could this be a caching proxy problem?

This may be a question to be asked on the FPC list.

Maybe the fpc website (wiki maybe hosted somewhere else), had encountered DOS attacks, and is blocking the IPs that attacked? If you happen to have an IP in this range.....

Martin

No blocking is done.

There is, however, an issue with some ISPs. The router to our ISP has a non-standard packet window size. Not all routers from other ISP's can handle this. This results in e.g. ping working fine, but WWW access does not work (in fact, anything requiring a packet >14xx bytes)

Michael.

I had problems accessing yesterday morning too. Bug tracker would load.

On the same machine half an hour later it worked again.

Michael,

That's the best explanation I've heard yet, but is there a solution? Will I never file another Lazarus or Free Pascal bug report?

Thanks.

-Phil

Philip J wrote

Michael, That's the best explanation I've heard yet, but is there a solution?

Not on our end, unless we relocate.

Will I never file another Lazarus or Free Pascal bug report?

Try at a different location ? Like I said, it's only a problem with some ISPs.

Michael.

Hmm, that explains, why some issues didn't recieve feedback :-( Like: 0013694: Designer problem with custom control based on TCustomForm

Vincent

I don't know if it will help, but you can try to tune the MTU (that's the packet size in question) on your windows box

google for it, there are plenty of sites describing it (it needs tuning in the registry)

Setting it to a smaller value, may however very slightly affect your overall download speed. And you should remember (export) the original setting, just in case.

Not likely.
Because then they would not have been reported in the first place...

Michael.

I don't recall when I lost access to Mantis but it was obviously at some point after I posted that.

Vincent: From today's e-mail I see that Mattias requested an example for
0013694. Please see extp_design_ctrls.pas for a TCustomForm descedant:

http://code.google.com/p/extpascal/

I supposed I could schlep my MacBook to the public library and see if I have access to Mantis via their free wireless, although that would seem to be bordering on above and beyond the call of duty.

Thanks.

-Phil