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melissa71175 wrote on Fri, Dec 6, 2002 05:34 AM UTC:Poor ★listen i cant get on the sight and i want my money back ive been trying since yesterday and its not my computer its the sight i wish someone would email me back melissa
Ken wrote on Fri, Dec 6, 2002 03:25 PM UTC:The Its Your Turn web site appears that it's been 'down' since Wed evening Dec 4. Does anyone know why? Is it a technical problem, or did they go out of business or what? I've been using it over a year without any significant problems before, so this is a new development.
I'm as much in the dark as Ken is...I play a few games there (ItsYourTurn), and have had no trouble until this extended outage. If I hear anything reliable I'll mention it here. Glenn Overby Editor
Ken wrote on Fri, Dec 6, 2002 04:08 PM UTC:About the 'vanished' Its Your Turn web site: Since we can't contact the site to ask what's going in, does anyone know if they have any 'sister site' or other related site who might know what's going on? Maybe someone even knows someone in charge at Its Your Turn and can call them (or email them some separate way) to get an answer. Does anyone know where they are based? I've used the Its Your Turn site regularly for over a year, and there were a couple of times where they had server problems and were down for a couple hours, but nothing like this. This outage is in its third day now, with no warning. Maybe they got hacked into or something, who knows?
What's particularly worrisome about this outage is that they seem to have
lost their DNS entry (the <b>D</b>omain <b>N</b>ame <b>S</b>ystem is what
maps names like 'www.itsyourturn.com' into actual internet address -- more
info <a href='http://www.dns.net/dnsrd'>here</a>). Now, I've read that if
a DNS entry is delisted for any reason it takes about three days for it to
perculate back through the system and that site to become findable again.
I hope that they've just been accidently delisted and that's it.
Ken wrote on Fri, Dec 6, 2002 07:07 PM UTC:Its Your Turn update - The its your turn site is back! This is as of about 1 pm Friday afternoon Central US time. There was no explanation on the site (that I could find) as to what happened. My games seemed to be as I left them Wednesday (but with no adjustments for time limits). If anybody knows anything about happened, I think there's a lot of users of that site wondering.
I confirm Ken's statement...with the added note that those of us who play fast (28-hour) tournaments saw every game time out. :(
If you click on news on left menu bar when at IYT, you will see that the
outage is due to the NC icestorm, and that they will be fixing the
tournament timeouts.
Ken wrote on Fri, Dec 6, 2002 08:36 PM UTC:More on 'Its Your Turn' site outage. Yes, there is an item of explantion on their site about what happened, but its a little hard to find. You have to click 'Message Boards' (left column) and then News from the next screen. Apparently there was a big ice storm in North Carolina that created mega-problems for several days and huge power outages. Even after several days, the folks in NC are still not out of the woods and still battling big problems and continued power outages. So the problems with the web site are totally understandable! Up until now, I had no idea where the site was based - now I know it's North Carolina!
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