Mysterious disappearance of the Gibson Brands Forums

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chazmo said:
How weird. I'm not getting domain name service on it. Well, I hope you guys that are interested in it get it back soon.


$ nslookup forum.gibson.com
Server: 2600:6c64:4e7f:ebbd:26f5:a2ff:fe28:5cdc
Address: 2600:6c64:4e7f:ebbd:26f5:a2ff:fe28:5cdc#53
** server can't find forum.gibson.com: NXDOMAIN
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Maybe try again in half an hour or so? Sometimes when a site is taken down, it can take a while for the site to propagate and load successfully again.

This is from a few minutes ago:

Gibson_Forum.png
 
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I've been 'banned' and locked out 3 times now and nobody knows why or does anything to fix it - if I suddenly gain access again I'm quitting.

This was my screen on March 17 - hurts because that was my birthday too!

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.. and it's back on line and I'm still banned.

Sending messages through the 'Contact Us' link is useless, they don't go through when 'banned'.
 
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fronobulax said:
Did not work for me in Brave. DNS issue. I did all the DNS cache clearing, and browser cache cleaning and still had the problem. I then tried https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/forum.gibson.com and it said it was just me.
I then tried Edge and it was there. I'd say it's back but patience is advised.
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I don't trust any browser based on Chrome. Here's why:

Some years ago I wrote a tool that would (supposedly) let me focus on what I was doing by replacing DNS entries in my local machine's /etc/hosts file with pointers to localhost. Since time immemorial, linux systems and their ilk have had rules for DNS where the hosts file is checked *before* any DNS lookups are done. I used it for quite some time with a cron entry that turned it on at a certain time and turned it off at a certain time. Since Macs are based on Unix, it worked like a charm! My daughter, who was then in high school, asked to install it for her and I did, happy that someone would use my cool tool.

Only it didn't work for her. Why? Because she uses Chrome.

After troubleshooting, I discovered that Chrome completely bypasses any local DNS configuration and uses its own. As someone who's been using Unix for decades this REALLY bothers me. What other non-standard things is it doing? What's it using for DNS? I'm sure Google did these things to make Chrome "work better" or make it "more secure" or some other such thing, but bypassing a fundamental system behavior left a bad taste in my mouth.
 
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GAD said:
I don't trust any browser based on Chrome. Here's why:

Some years ago I wrote a tool that would (supposedly) let me focus on what I was doing by replacing DNS entries in my local machine's /etc/hosts file with pointers to localhost. Since time immemorial, linux systems and their ilk have had rules for DNS where the hosts file is checked *before* any DNS lookups are done. I used it for quite some time with a cron entry that turned it on at a certain time and turned it off at a certain time. Since Macs are based on Unix, it worked like a charm! My daughter, who was then in high school, asked to install it for her and I did, happy that someone would use my cool tool.

Only it didn't work for her. Why? Because she uses Chrome.

After troubleshooting, I discovered that Chrome completely bypasses any local DNS configuration and uses its own. As someone who's been using Unix for decades this REALLY bothers me. What other non-standard things is it doing? What's it using for DNS? I'm sure Google did these things to make Chrome "work better" or make it "more secure" or some other such thing, but bypassing a fundamental system behavior left a bad taste in my mouth.
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Noted. Brave is a better solution for ad blocking than some of the others I have tried. My DNS peeve is when a DNS entry is not found and the DNS provider sends you to a similarly named site or a site that will let you register a domain. The former is not as common as it once was.

You may have provided insight into a different problem. I get DNS issues maybe one a day. I fix them by clearing things at the Windows level but if the browser is doing something then I should try another browser. Curiously Chrome on my phone has never given me a DNS error.

But I digress.

To sort of unveer perhaps I observe that LTGs independence from Guild will give rise to a different sort of speculation when it appears down. Even if it is no longer literally true, then image of LTG running on a server in GADs garage persists.
 
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GAD said:
I don't trust any browser based on Chrome. Here's why:

Some years ago I wrote a tool that would (supposedly) let me focus on what I was doing by replacing DNS entries in my local machine's /etc/hosts file with pointers to localhost. Since time immemorial, linux systems and their ilk have had rules for DNS where the hosts file is checked *before* any DNS lookups are done. I used it for quite some time with a cron entry that turned it on at a certain time and turned it off at a certain time. Since Macs are based on Unix, it worked like a charm! My daughter, who was then in high school, asked to install it for her and I did, happy that someone would use my cool tool.

Only it didn't work for her. Why? Because she uses Chrome.

After troubleshooting, I discovered that Chrome completely bypasses any local DNS configuration and uses its own. As someone who's been using Unix for decades this REALLY bothers me. What other non-standard things is it doing? What's it using for DNS? I'm sure Google did these things to make Chrome "work better" or make it "more secure" or some other such thing, but bypassing a fundamental system behavior left a bad taste in my mouth.
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I love foreign languages. I speak 2 of them in addition to my native one.
Shame I haven't learned this one.
 
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GAD said:
I don't trust any browser based on Chrome. Here's why:

Some years ago I wrote a tool that would (supposedly) let me focus on what I was doing by replacing DNS entries in my local machine's /etc/hosts file with pointers to localhost. Since time immemorial, linux systems and their ilk have had rules for DNS where the hosts file is checked *before* any DNS lookups are done. I used it for quite some time with a cron entry that turned it on at a certain time and turned it off at a certain time. Since Macs are based on Unix, it worked like a charm! My daughter, who was then in high school, asked to install it for her and I did, happy that someone would use my cool tool.

Only it didn't work for her. Why? Because she uses Chrome.

After troubleshooting, I discovered that Chrome completely bypasses any local DNS configuration and uses its own. As someone who's been using Unix for decades this REALLY bothers me. What other non-standard things is it doing? What's it using for DNS? I'm sure Google did these things to make Chrome "work better" or make it "more secure" or some other such thing, but bypassing a fundamental system behavior left a bad taste in my mouth.
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I've been using Brave (instead of Safari with an ad blocker Wipr) for quite some time and really like it. What browser do you recommend?

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I love foreign languages. I speak 2 of them in addition to my native one.
Shame I haven't learned this one.
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It's good to have you back, buddy!
 
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fronobulax said:
Noted. Brave is a better solution for ad blocking than some of the others I have tried. My DNS peeve is when a DNS entry is not found and the DNS provider sends you to a similarly named site or a site that will let you register a domain. The former is not as common as it once was.

You may have provided insight into a different problem. I get DNS issues maybe one a day. I fix them by clearing things at the Windows level but if the browser is doing something then I should try another browser. Curiously Chrome on my phone has never given me a DNS error.

But I digress.

To sort of unveer perhaps I observe that LTGs independence from Guild will give rise to a different sort of speculation when it appears down. Even if it is no longer literally true, then image of LTG running on a server in GADs garage persists.
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twocorgis said:
I've been using Brave (instead of Safari with an ad blocker Wipr) for quite some time and really like it. What browser do you recommend
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My current feelings on browsers is a lot like it used to be with laptops: they all suck so use what you like.

I use Safari because it used to be great and the integration across devices in the Apple universe is superb. I also complain about it non-stop because it sucks. It’s a memory hog, and it often slows down my 24-core xeon Mac Pro with 197G RAM until I kill and restart it. How a company like Apple can manage to screw up something like Safari is beyond me, but here we are.

I also use Firefox and Chrome. They all suck equally for varying different reasons.

I use AdGuard system-wide which makes them all better, but I really don’t recommend any of them.

Also I broke my temporary crown and it hurts to breathe so I’m crankier than usual. Grrrr
 
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