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Forum down every night around 2 to 3 am CDT

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That was a TRACERT it was responding to in both cases, not a PING. In any case, yes, some servers are set not to respond and that is mostly likely the case.

 

Tom, tracert is pings with increasing TTL values. If it dont ping it won't get a response from a trace and vice versa,

 

I can't see any evidence that your using a content delivery network, is that true? 

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I can't see any evidence that your using a content delivery network, is that true?

 

No, we are not. Let's take this to PM's please.

By the way, I've been getting the same thing. Just assumed it was server maintenance.

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same here in ireland, thought i was to far away,

 

richard druce.

Aye I'm seeing the same..

Around 0900z-1000z or so (give or that that schedule), every day (no exception so far..) I'm getting a 503 error.

Lukas "TIN TIN -=9th Shrek=-" Mathijsen

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At exactly 09:30GMT today I got a 503 message. I didn't save the TRACERT instructions so couldn't run it.

Ray (Cheshire, England).

System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant.

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Had to go out this morning so missed it today.

 

To run a trace start a dos window and type tracert forum.avsim.net

 

However, I maintain that if you get a 503 error then this is being sent by a server and is therefore not a network issue.

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Thanks Dave. Just run one now with everything working okay.

 

Tracing route to forum.avsim.net [205.252.89.43]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.254
  2   166 ms    16 ms    16 ms  213.120.155.228
  3    17 ms    17 ms    18 ms  213.120.155.158
  4    18 ms    17 ms    17 ms  213.120.161.106
  5    18 ms    17 ms    18 ms  213.120.182.71
  6    20 ms    18 ms    18 ms  31.55.164.109
  7    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  acc2-10GigE-0-5-0-4.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.248.224]
  8    26 ms    23 ms    22 ms  core1-te0-3-0-16.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.248.156]
  9    25 ms    23 ms    23 ms  peer2-xe4-2-0.redbus.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.255.134]
 10    27 ms    24 ms    45 ms  194.74.65.6
 11   104 ms     *      102 ms  purple.servers.avsim.net [205.252.89.43]

Trace complete.

 

Will run another tomorrow at 09:30 for a comparison.

Ray (Cheshire, England).

System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant.

Cheadle Hulme Weather website.

chlive.php

Strangely, it didn't happen for me last night as usual. My ipad had it intermittently, and my computer was fine. :-/

We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically.
 
Devons rig
Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB /  1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe /  1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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905 This morning, 

 

Site is taking 18 seconds to load.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dJyXRh/http://forum.avsim.net/

 

network is fine, sub 100 ms ping to avsim.

 

Something is slowing down the server for sure.

 

 

915, site getting slower, still sub 100 ping.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/UgKpa/http://forum.avsim.net/

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From 920 your server is serving 503

 

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">

<html><head>
<title>503 Service Unavailable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Service Unavailable</h1>
<p>The server is temporarily unable to service your
request due to maintenance downtime or capacity
problems. Please try again later.</p>
</body></html>
 
Suspect your web server is queuing requests and if it can't serve a response within 30 seconds it returns 503.
 
Here is your web site from 920 to 945.Ping is fine throughout so not network issue, at least not this side of your server. 
 
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dMZ8tH/http://forum.avsim.net/
 
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/I6UpZ/http://forum.avsim.net/
 
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dAVTCZ/http://forum.avsim.net/
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cRRCVJ/http://forum.avsim.net/
 
Responds at 28 seconds
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cRRCVJ/http://forum.avsim.net/
time out again
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bzwABf/http://forum.avsim.net/
 
946, back to normal
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/btT1Ip/http://forum.avsim.net/

 

 

Would def suspect a database maintenance job as the culprit or some other houskeeping job.

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I atempted to connect at 9:20GMT and got the 503 message. I ran Tracert and here are the results:-

Tracing route to forum.avsim.net [205.252.89.43]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     1 ms     7 ms  192.168.1.254
  2    17 ms    16 ms    17 ms  213.120.155.228
  3    17 ms    17 ms    21 ms  213.120.155.158
  4    18 ms    18 ms    17 ms  213.120.161.106
  5    27 ms    18 ms    18 ms  213.120.182.71
  6    18 ms    21 ms    18 ms  31.55.164.109
  7    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  acc2-10GigE-0-5-0-4.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.248.224]
  8    25 ms    22 ms    23 ms  core1-te0-3-0-16.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.248.156]
  9    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms  peer2-xe4-2-0.redbus.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.255.134]
 10    24 ms    24 ms    23 ms  194.74.65.6
 11   102 ms   103 ms   102 ms  purple.servers.avsim.net [205.252.89.43]

Trace complete.

 

Over to those who know more than me.

Ray (Cheshire, England).

System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant.

Cheadle Hulme Weather website.

chlive.php

I confirm that I also got the 503 message at 0930 UTC in the UK this morning.

 

I have now given up trying to use AVSIM between 0900 and 1000 because this error is still persistent. It's specific to ASVSIM and I have no problems with any other sites world-wide  between those times. 

Gerry Howard

Please do not bother with tracert or traceroute (if you are not a windows platform...). It is of no use in troubleshooting this, as this is not a network issue.

 

It is an issue with the server itself, as if some database repair facility is at work or some other system maintenance (maybe a backup?) is running and slowing the server down so much as to be unable to respond correctly to requests...

 

This is every morning...

 

You really need to see what the system is doing during these down times, so you need to be logged onto it and see what processes are running...

 

Avsim is one of the slowest fora I know at the best of times as it is...

 

Andrew

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I honestly have no problem with the speed of the forum system. Yes, it takes longer than other fora, but I am basically on the other side of the world to the servers, so I expect more loading time. I click on a page and normally wait a max of 15 sec for it to load.

 

In regards to the outages, I went to gather the info Tom requested, during the normal outage time, but the site was still up. I have never experienced the 0930UTC downtime, only ever 0815-0845UTC (but that seems to be resolved/gone now), so I can not comment on that.

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