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EDNEDN
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Joined: 18/02/2023
Location: United States
Posts: 293
Posted: 07:19pm 10 May 2026
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Right now, I'm not having a problem.  But about 50% of the time the site can't be found by my web browser.    It kind of looks like TheBackShed.com is disappearing from the DNS servers and no look up is possible.    But replacing the domain name with the last IP address that was successful doesn't seem to help either.

Am I just imagining this problem?   Is anybody else seeing a similar behavior?
Does anybody else have a suggestion to mitigate the problem?

Thanks!
Edited 2026-05-11 07:25 by EDNEDN
 
Gizmo

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Joined: 05/06/2004
Location: Australia
Posts: 5181
Posted: 11:13pm 10 May 2026
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Hi Ednedn

Could be several reasons.

I assume you are based in the USA as your profile says. Some members sign up and select a different country for some reason, and a few countries are blocked in our firewall.

Using some VPN's can cause this, it depends on how they are routing the data. The site lives on servers in Australia.

The internet has been flakey for a while lately, Trumps war has led to a spike in slow/blocked traffic and down time. There's a lot of DOS attacks going on, mostly from Iran.

See if there is a pattern, like times of the day when access is good, or bad.

Glenn
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TassyJim

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Joined: 07/08/2011
Location: Australia
Posts: 6519
Posted: 03:24am 11 May 2026
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I have noticed that I often have to try a few times lately.
It looks like a DNS issue to me.
I am on aussiebroadband and use their DNS

I haven't tried using your IP

Jim
Edited 2026-05-11 13:25 by TassyJim
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