Is anyone else having occasional DU outages?

[Stinky The Clown]

Three or four times today all I get when I refresh is FORBIDDEN in the upper left of the browser window.
Lasts just a couple of minutes each time.

[madashelltoo]

1. Yes

I got that message several times today.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Is it on a phone, Mac or PC ?

[Stinky The Clown]

5. MacBookPro

[Tetrachloride]

18. Try 1. using an ad blocker on safari

2. option 2, the browser called Epic. but if you do want to use it, pm me before downloading. i want to check something.

[JHB]

12. For me, has happened several times today on PC, but switching to an iPhone worked fine

So while it was happening on one device, it was not happening on a different device.

[SheltieLover]

3. Yes a couple of times

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Oh yeah. There was a thread about this earlier, but no one

seems to know what it is.

[Tomconroy]

6. Yes. I reboot my phone.

[Hekate]

7. Interesting, but not so far. I'm in California, if location makes a difference. nt

[Tumbulu]

23. I'm in CA too, but I got that message about 6 times yesterday morning

But after about an hour it was fine again.

On an iPad.

[old as dirt]

8. Close.

I've been having occasional DU outrages.

[betsuni]

9. Yes. Sometimes takes about four or five minutes before I can read something without it disappearing.

Have to keep refreshing.

[woodsprite]

10. Several times today so far. Wasn't sure what was up. Even went to FB DU page to see. nt

[electric_blue68]

11. Not for me. (yet?)

[Scrivener7]

13. YES!

[abqtommy]

14. The best fixes I know for that is to 1) clear your cache, 2) clear your history and

3)reboot your browser. It's sure super-aggravating! I haven't had any problems today.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Fresh reboot, cache clear, etc. I use Eraser to wipe all data. Still the problem persists.

[SledDriver]

15. Yes

On a Macbook Pro using Chrome

[TheBlackAdder]

16. I've been gettng that too, it reconnects when I pause & restart my VPN. Something is timing out.

.

I thought it was my system, but this issue is only affecting DU.

Firefox, Windows 11, HP Z2 Mini Workstation, PIA VPN all current.

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[Rhiannon12866]

19. It happened to me a few times last night and several times today

Sometimes it's been when I just try to call up DU and other times when I try to reply to a thread. And I'm on my laptop.

[sheshe2]

20. Yes!

[Raine]

21. Yes, the forbidden thing and at other times the page

goes totally blank. I keep trying and then it will be alright.

[XiJung]

22. I have had to take several breaks over the last few weeks n/t

[Metaphorical]

24. Sounds like it may be an upstream Gateway error

Either there are problems upstream to DU (one of it's host providers) or there may be denial of service attacks on the broader network, not at all unlikely given the current geopolitical situation. I've had sporadic Internet problems much of the day, and while at first I was inclined to think it was our connection (We have T-Mobile wireless gateways that are sensitive to weather conditions) I'm increasingly looking at the possibility of attempts at hacking trunk nodes. Fortunately, those are usually very, very stable.

[orwell]

25. Yes...

...GRU is hacking DU...

[ChazII]

26. Yes, and it has been happening since the

Last edited Sun Mar 13, 2022, 01:20 PM - Edit history (1)

first of this year. It will often say "Trouble loading this page" or it gives me a 'button' with a similar saying but that pages also as the name of the thread.

Edited to add:
It just happened again and the message at the top of the screen said, "The page reloaded because a problem occurred."