F2S Resumes sign-ups

[bigperm]

I signed up with them to mirror my yupapa site, and maybe try some mySQL stuff out too.

[LastActionHero]

What server are you on?

[gyrbo]

Now everybody is happy again.

[bigperm]

How do you tell what server you are on?

[Ozy]

From F2S sign up page:

"PLEASE NOTE: The new webservers are currently experimental.
Only signup now if you do not mind lots of downtime!"

[Johnny]

lol.. just sign up.. and the server is down.

[Satelk]

Originally posted by Ozy
From F2S sign up page:

"PLEASE NOTE: The new webservers are currently experimental.
Only signup now if you do not mind lots of downtime!"
It says that on the sign up page since last summer.
The server are terrible at first but get better after a month or 2.

[DustyM]

I got my F2S account(s) but I will probabbly keep my FateBack ones incase there is a problem with the F2S servers .. HAHA

[DustyM]

Having problems with the FTP ... they said that my FTP was ftp.freebworld.f2s.com but it won't connect ... what's the deal ?

[Johnny]

didn't you see 2 different guys saying that the server will have down time?

[martian]

I can't acces the F2S site for days now... anyone has the same problem?

[Johnny]

i can enter the www.f2s.com fine

[martian]

I can't :( ... Gyrbo, you have the same connection as I have... can you acces F2S ?

When I go to www.f2s.com, I see this:


A problem occured on the origin server:
- Could not connect to the server

[Bruce]

i can't access the site either:(

[LastActionHero]

F2S accounts are activated only the next morning so you will have to wait 5-6 hours until you can FTP or you can access your accounts.

I signed up for an F2S account last october and only in march they removed the experimental tag from my server and moved it to the 24*7 monitoring thing they have.

Whenever they resume signups it mean they have got new servers and they test it until they are sure that the server is good and can handle the load. That may take months as in the above case.

You find out what server you are on by typing this command on the dos prompt

ping www.yourusernamehere.f2s.com

[Johnny]

Why don't they just get the same serve they using so they know that it works fine.

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by Johnny
Why don't they just get the same serve they using so they know that it works fine.


Coz the old servers are already full. F2S moves on to a new server or servers when the old servers are already full. I would love to be on server 26....the best!

[Bruce]

Originally posted by lastactionhero
F2S accounts are activated only the next morning so you will have to wait 5-6 hours until you can FTP or you can access your accounts.

I signed up for an F2S account last october and only in march they removed the experimental tag from my server and moved it to the 24*7 monitoring thing they have.

Whenever they resume signups it mean they have got new servers and they test it until they are sure that the server is good and can handle the load. That may take months as in the above case.

You find out what server you are on by typing this command on the dos prompt

ping www.yourusernamehere.f2s.com
but that still doesn't tell me why i can't access www.f2s.com

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by Phrozen

but that still doesn't tell me why i can't access www.f2s.com

Must be some connection problem between your ISP and f2s.com. Try a traceroute and you will most probably know what's the problem and/or just wait for a few hours.

[Satelk]

Originally posted by lastactionhero

I would love to be on server 26....the best!
Server 26 is the best? Cool. I'm on that server!:D

[martian]

Originally posted by lastactionhero


Must be some connection problem between your ISP and f2s.com. Try a traceroute and you will most probably know what's the problem and/or just wait for a few hours.

But it's almost a week now that I can't acces F2S...

[Johnny]

I WAS ABLE TO GO TO F2S.COM MAIN SITE WITH NO PROBLEM this morning

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by martian
I can't :( ... Gyrbo, you have the same connection as I have... can you acces F2S ?

When I go to www.f2s.com, I see this:


A problem occured on the origin server:
- Could not connect to the server
Nope, got the same error.
Also, my account has been down for ages: www.prog-home.f2s.com

[Johnny]

Originally posted by gyrbo

Nope, got the same error.
Also, my account has been down for ages: www.prog-home.f2s.com

no its there.

[martian]

There seems to be a big problem here... F2S is up, but some of us can't connect to it :confused:

[haystakk]

Originally posted by gyrbo

Nope, got the same error.
Also, my account has been down for ages: www.prog-home.f2s.com

I have never had any problems getting on the f2s site, and also your site is up. I again haven't had any trouble. Some dodgy connections goin on here. Do a traceroute to find out where the problem could be...:rolleyes:

[NC_TOM]

Since only some of us can connect to it, they're having a router problem. I'm near Seattle and I can connect just fine. There's gotta be a bad router somewhere so that maybe Europe or the east coast cannot access the service.

[martian]

I traced and I got this:

Host reached

Huh?
:confused:

[Bruce]

finally i get to go to f2s again...

[Seeker]

The database i created on f2s.com isn't gonna be available until tomorrow. Is there a way to make global access to that database available, or do i have to pay for that?

[meow]

Funny. I can't reach www.f2s.com but I can reache sites hosted there. Then I tried http://www.freedomtosurf.com/. Bingo! That works.

[Bruce]

yeah that is kinda funny cuz i can reach f2s from www.f2s.com and www.f2s.net but i can't get there from www.freedomtosurf.com

[Anjay]

I can reach them just fine while i'm in Europe, UK.
I just signed up with them to test their stuff out.
I've used 'em before but have they changed in the last few years I've used them in??
Maybe, maybe not. I'll see.

[haystakk]

Originally posted by NC_TOM
Since only some of us can connect to it, they're having a router problem. I'm near Seattle and I can connect just fine. There's gotta be a bad router somewhere so that maybe Europe or the east coast cannot access the service.

Erm..i live in the UK so that disproves your theory! lol

[Anjay]

I live in the UK... but I read something about F2s in London, and maybe that why people in the UK can access it, yet I've just come back from a day trip in France and was able to access it over my laptop.
And I was in France, and that IS a European country.

[meow]

Yesterday they were OK. This began today (GMT).

[lucifer]

I'm a little thick

this F2S is the most recomended thing on this forum

does it have ads/pop ups?

does it have java servlets?

[Hoth]

F2S doesn't have any form of ads. Subdomain, 20 MB space, CGI, PHP4, 5MB MySQL or postgreSQL DB, FrontPage extensions, POP email, unlimited bandwidth. The only problem is that it's slow for people on the newer servers. I'm on server 28 (an old one), though, so I like it.

[ISAfxp]

nomatter what people say , f2s is one of the best free webspaceproviders on the net :)

[martian]

F2s still doesn't work for me :(

[meow]

Don't give up. My last account (just before they stopped accepting new) took 3 days. Usually it works the day after though.

[martian]

No it's not that, some of us here can't acces the FS site for days now...

[gyrbo]

Including hosted ones.

[meow]

Oh I'm sorry. All urls work for me now so I guess it's some routing prob as suggested?

[martian]

I have no idea... It's a week now. Suddenly i couldn't reach F2S anymore.

[meow]

Has anyone tried www.users.f2s.com? I can post there if you want. Is this from both US and Europe?

[martian]

I think so. The only thing I know is that some of us have problems. Yeah you can try to post.

[bigperm]

I am on server 45... is this bad?

[Bruce]

well i'm on server 45 too. i haven't had any problems with it yet. Its only been about 24 hours though.... but thats good for them.

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by martian
I have no idea... It's a week now. Suddenly i couldn't reach F2S anymore.

to the people who can't access : What is your location. Give me a location and I'll run a traceroute from your location.

give me your website url also.

[LastActionHero]

From belgium router0005.freedom2surf.net is the faulty router. Complain to f2s

[martian]

ok :D

[JustinSurfer]

they haven't started experementing with it.............yet

[Weapon]

yeah alot of people are happy that f2s resumed their sign up but not me :( I signed up twice then when I clicked the activate link in the email it just says invalid id, anyone else have the same prob? also in my old account I can seem to delete the folders, I can delete the files but not folder anyone else with this prob?

[JustinSurfer]

Originally posted by Weapon
yeah alot of people are happy that f2s resumed their sign up but not me :( I signed up twice then when I clicked the activate link in the email it just says invalid id, anyone else have the same prob? also in my old account I can seem to delete the folders, I can delete the files but not folder anyone else with this prob?

don't use it , thats what the problem is }
according to f2s

[JustinSurfer]

TESTING ONE TWO

<script language="Javascript">
<!--
alert("Hello world!");
//-->
</script>

[LastActionHero]

You can do that stuff in the test forum :rolleyes:

[martian]

I mailed to F2S explaining them the problem that some of us couldn't reach the site anymore. They asked where I lived, they asked me to do a traceroute,...
They mailed back about 5 minutes later and they say that they've checked everything but didn't find a problem. Everythings seems to be normal.
I wonder what the problem could be :confused:

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by martian
I mailed to F2S explaining them the problem that some of us couldn't reach the site anymore. They asked where I lived, they asked me to do a traceroute,...
They mailed back about 5 minutes later and they say that they've checked everything but didn't find a problem. Everythings seems to be normal.
I wonder what the problem could be :confused:

Damn I never got a reply in five minutes! Which email address did you send your complaint too?
BTW here is the tracert from belgium:


traceroute to server0006.freedom2surf.net (194.106.56.38), 32 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 g4-1-0-1.c7513.science.belnet.net (193.190.198.16) 0.499 ms
2 g6-0.c12008.brussels.belnet.net (193.190.197.181) 0.680 ms
3 213.35.76.69 (213.35.76.69) 1.136 ms
4 pos1-0-2-brj1-amssl.nl.conxion.net (213.35.124.185) 4.585 ms
5 ge5-2-brc1-amssl.nl.conxion.net (213.35.124.222) 5.161 ms
6 pos4-2-brc1-amsvt.nl.conxion.net (213.35.124.214) 4.545 ms
7 pos1-1-brc1-lonsw.uk.conxion.net (213.35.124.6) 17.212 ms
8 pos1-0-irc1-lonth.uk.conxion.net (213.35.124.26) 17.807 ms
9 195.66.224.41 (195.66.224.41) 17.942 ms
10 *
11 *
12 *
13 *
14 *
15 *
16 *
17 *
18 *
19 *
20 *

It goes on like that till 30. This could either be a router problem or a firewall at hop 9. I don't think f2s has firewalls.

[martian]

I mailed to support@freedom2surf.net . Than a 'Chris' mailed back to me within 10 minutes with the questions than I replied to the adress and every 5 minutes I got an answer untill now:
he says: have you tried another computer?
I replied: Some others have my problem to. We are discussing it on freewebspace.net forums. ;)

[LastActionHero]

Yeah Chris is their support guy, very cool.

[meow]

Chris is the owner. I think it's f2s' official policy to not recognize problems as long as possible. ;)
Nobody has answered at users btw.

[meow]

*lol* We posterd at the same time. Is he support? Whatever.

[martian]

Originally posted by meow
I think it's f2s' official policy to not recognize problems as long as possible. ;)


I begin to think the same... There IS a problem :(

[gyrbo]

Now WE need to make sure they know it!

[gyrbo]

I got some news:
Forcing `-t a' for signature trace.
rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=1
The following answer is not authoritative:
The following answer is not verified as authentic by the server:
41.224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN PTR router0005.freedom2surf.net
For authoritative answers, see:
224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN NS ns0.pipex.net
224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN NS ns1.pipex.net
224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN NS sec1.dns.uk.psi.net
224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN NS sec2.dns.uk.psi.net
224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN NS azure.linx.net
224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN NS london.linx.net
224.66.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA 86400 IN NS ns0.ja.net

I did a host lookup for 195.66.224.41 (the IP that stopped the whole proces).

[meow]

From here I get this:

Looking up '195.66.224.41 ' - Jun 21, 2001 17:03:37
Official Name: router0005.freedom2surf.net
IP address: 195.66.224.41

What does rhis mumbo jumbo mean?

:confused:

[martian]

Ok I'll mail it to F2S...

[meow]

I can reach them but I still have this in the traceroute:
----------------------------
Starting trace - Jun 21, 2001 17:06:19
Looking up 'www.f2s.com'...
Tracing to www.f2s.com [194.106.56.38]....
Hops IP Address RTT DNS Name

20 213.174.70.94 208 gblon303-tc-p2-0.ebone.net
21 195.158.232.218 262
22 TIMED OUT
23 194.106.56.38 240 server0006.freedom2surf.net
Host reached
-------------------------------


And when I look up 95.158.232.218
-------------------------------
Looking up '195.158.232.218' - Jun 21, 2001 17:08:02
Host lookup failed
WinSock error 11004: Valid name, no data record of requested type
-------------------------------

[martian]

That's very weird...

I still can't acces them

[meow]

Yeah, I've never seen TiME OUT then REACHED. Does that mean it takes another route around the faulty one?
I had the same thing yesterday when I couldn't reach f2s.com though.

I'm not sure of what a 'router' is - just a server on the way?

[JustinSurfer]

Originally posted by martian
I mailed to support@freedom2surf.net . Than a 'Chris' mailed back to me within 10 minutes with the questions than I replied to the adress and every 5 minutes I got an answer untill now:
he says: have you tried another computer?
I replied: Some others have my problem to. We are discussing it on freewebspace.net forums. ;)

YOU GOT A REPLY . THATS A MIRACLE , THEY NEVER EVER ANSWER SUPPORT EMAILS!!!

[martian]

Yeah I got about 4 mails from them...
but now they don't mail me back anymore

[JustinSurfer]

http://server0006.freedom2surf.net/home/home.htm

try using that!

[martian]

Originally posted by meow
Yeah, I've never seen TiME OUT then REACHED. Does that mean it takes another route around the faulty one?
I had the same thing yesterday when I couldn't reach f2s.com though.

I'm not sure of what a 'router' is - just a server on the way?

I didn't know how to explain it to you, so i looked it up:

On the Internet, a router is a device or, in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and decides which way to send each information packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to. A router is located at any gateway (where one network meets another), including each Internet point-of-presence. A router is often included as part of a network switch.

A router may create or maintain a table of the available routes and their conditions and use this information along with distance and cost algorithms to determine the best route for a given packet. Typically, a packet may travel through a number of network points with routers before arriving at its destination. Routing is a function associated with the Network layer (layer 3) in the standard model of network programming, the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. A layer-3 switch is a switch that can perform routing functions.

An edge router is a router that interfaces with an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. A brouter is a network bridge combined with a router.

[JustinSurfer]

Originally posted by martian
Yeah I got about 4 mails from them...
but now they don't mail me back anymore

i reckon i have sent them 50 mails since i've been a member not one reply !

[meow]

Maybe it's catchy. I got help from a Miss Clements at Portland's after they misplaced my .kg. ;)

[martian]

Originally posted by JustinSurfer


i reckon i have sent them 50 mails since i've been a member not one reply !

I'm not even a member... :p

[JustinSurfer]

Originally posted by martian


I'm not even a member... :p
GRRRRRRRRRRR!!

LOL

[meow]

martian - what IS a router please?

[martian]

I answered it already on the previous page, meow:
http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=6476&perpage=15&pagenumber=5 - the last post

[meow]

Sorry and thank you martian. :)

[gyrbo]

Darn router, work damit.

[roblev]

see what happens when you have a router which cannot hold the immense amount of traffic on your network! he he he, it reminds me of when the one and only gateway computer at my school board broke down at lunch and cut off internet for at least one day for about 10,000 students. But MS Exchange still seemed to work..... it probably was internal!:D

[martian]

Originally posted by meow
Sorry and thank you martian. :)

np :)

[martian]

Originally posted by gyrbo
Darn router, work damit.

yeah *********!:mad:
they allow new sign-ups and i can't register an account...
and now they don't e-mail mail back.

[zazoo]

you know for the "Best webhost" they sure do have alot of problems

[martian]

OK, there are problems. I can understand this.
But I hate it when they say that they don't see any problems and that they say that I have to use another computer...

[zazoo]

why would the computer limmit people from veiwing webpages anyways?

seems to me that saying to switch computers is easier than figuring out the real problem

I know I might seem snipy towards towards them and the truth is that I don't think there too bad but I think that they should work out there server problems before they make it public

[meow]

Those of you that can go to f2s must check this thread. A hacked site and...it's so funny! :D

http://www.users.f2s.com/phorum/read.php?f=12&i=7855&t=7855

[LastActionHero]

Very Funny! :D Specially the reply by 'Customer Support' :D

But on a more serious note I hope my site doens't get hacked.

[JustinSurfer]

On the topic or routers freewebspace.net has been down from 9.00pm CET to 11.00AM CET , router problem?

[martian]

It's still down for me :(

[gyrbo]

Can anybody post the messages posted in that formu? I want to know wat it's all about.

[LastActionHero]

The original post


I SWEAR i didnt put this up.
over the past few days i couldnt access FTP: it told me i had the wrong password. so eventually i thought maybe the server was messed up, and went to check my main page. It not consists of a Chinese flag, some letters i cant understand, and it was made in frontpage. I kid you not.

http://www.bunny.f2s.com/ <-- WTF?


The reply by f2s


oS:
Try accessing the files, if possible;.
Check creation dates, and maybe you can find out how long this went on....


Customer Support reply


I am very sorry to tell you that under recent developement we've been forced to hand over some of our webspace to communist china. It's nothing personal, of course, however you must understand that the communist takeover of several small countries is important to the growth of the new world... Your page was selected inparticular because bunnies can be viewed as a very fuzzy and happy thing, but when they set their mind to it, they can be destructive.

Other newer posts are by Helpful freewebspace community people.

[polestar]

Irony everybody!!!! Freedom 2 Surf

cha cha cha cha cha!!!

Talk about communists, these guys are extremist isolationalist fundamentals with a major score to settle. They hope that by upsetting the web-hosting inhabitants of democratic states it might be possible to cause our defenses to be lowered just enough for the final assault on human liberty and........World Domination

I kid you not.

[LastActionHero]

Customer Support is not actually Customer Support. It's some lamer posting under that nick.

[JustinSurfer]

Originally posted by lastactionhero
Customer Support is not actually Customer Support. It's some lamer posting under that nick.
you don't say!!!

[LastActionHero]

:confused:

[JustinSurfer]

Originally posted by undefined
:undefined:
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[LastActionHero]

I'am forced to say again, :confused:

[JustinSurfer]

what i meant was that i thought it was fairly obvious that customer support was not the real customer support!

[martian]

What the hell is going on there ?:confused:

[gyrbo]

If we would only know.

[gyrbo]

I can acces them again!