That did the trick it seems! Don’t fully trust it yet but I’m posting this from my workstation which couldn’t access site before!
Spoke to soon… Cycled the host config to test ipv6 again, now confirmed ipv4 doesn’t work either … Checked a third laptop with same ipv6 traceroute as above, works fine!
Looks like an issue with that hardware/config. Does pixls run anything that might block me if say my Firefox (beta) was buggy and acted spammy in some way?
I use nightly Firefox on my phone and there was a time when it interfered with my browsing experience. I do not remember the issue, but it prevented me from visiting PIXLS, among other sites. It lasted about a month! Probably an unrelated issue, but stuff can happen.
we arent blocking anything.
what makes me wonder … it says you failed a secure connection. but also it shows it downloaded a lot of things but it broke partially for some files?
so if you had problems posting or so I would have said “maybe discourse slots are full” but you have problems with static files as well. which would be nginx. and getting connections at all. which is haproxy.
flaky wifi?
I did not do anything but currently pixls seems to be working normally.
Yesterday it was not working at all (or super slow). Not network issues on my side because nothing else was affected and same issue seen when I tried connected to different networks.
Nope, fully wired on the workstation. It was what sets the workstation apart so was wondering if the wired config had issues.
Thing is that the problems now also affect my phone when on WiFi and my partners private linux laptop and her work MacBook! These devices worked fine yesterday. This gradual loss is what made me wonder about some kind of blocking.
Still works on mobile data that’s why I can post this. I’ve never seen anything like this. All other websites and network functions are fine.
Guess I’m now alone in this which is good I guess as it suggest its my config/hardware or my broadband supplier.
Posting this just in case it turns out others have issues.
Would be strange if it was just an issue on your end because it has to be related to what I was experiencing (highly unlikely that it’s just a coincidence that similar issues happened at the same time)? Maybe some (dns) issue that takes a while to propagate.
For me it did not work on mobile data or my wired connection (though this is backed by a mobile connection but through another provider/network). Did not test on my work phone previously but as I said, now everything works
Maybe I was too fast to declare that it’s working…
I have three connections to test
- 4g through wifi: not working (provider: Moi/DNA)
- 4g (telia): working
- 4g (elisa) maybe working 50%, sometimes hangs and occasionally gets through
Sounds reasonable, I’m no techie just an creative/art person but I guess DNS is one of those things that may affect different devices at different times.
It “feels” to me like some kind of block though because devices visiting the site for the first time work but then stop after accessing a few times. DNS isn’t propagated by accessing a certain site. My mobile connection is still going strong. Going to test sharing it with laptops.
Anyone knows of a different site hosted at the same location?
this is totally mindboggling. Shared my phone data to a laptop which previously didn’t work. Using phone data worked, and then switching back to wifi worked!
However testing in chromium and firefox the former locked up after a minute or two of clicking around pixls. Firefox contined to work, posting from that laptop on firefox via wifi now. This is what I can’t understand why does firefox work when chromium is locked up on the same device.
Chromium is sort of back but slow loading. WTF. May well be that my switching around devices and networks just coincides or doesn’t with issues elsewhere.
Look at this. Downloaded nightly on a laptop now running over wifi. This is my personal laptop that suddenly worked in firefox esr the new nightly (which i didn’t use on this laptop before only on workstation).
left firefox esr, working. Right firefox nightly stalled. Note that I get the animation.
posting this from the esr window with the nightly still being locked. Note that the other debian laptop was similar but Chromium locked and Firefox working.
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Check your router. You could also try using a vpn to see if that causes a difference.
I upped the resources for the discourse app. lets see if that helps.
also keep in mind that we install updates daily. and we restart processes to have everything use the new libraries. (zypper ps for everyone who is using opensuse). so seeing short hiccups at least once a day is normal.
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Have done some testing etc and I’m waaaay out of my depth here and just prodding. Could it be that haproxy or something else is breaking PMTU? Lowering mss seems to resolve the issue for me. Its probably my config but since all other sites work I’m throwing this out.
I don’t really trust that this resolved the issue just yet but mangling the mss in the router firewall appears to solve it.
not really. the question why would there be an MTU issue on a 3 hop trip between your pc and our server?
My networking knowledge is very basic so I have no idea and I’ve never encountered anything like it before. Just tested removing the mss mangle which results in browsers no longer accessing pixls after being restarted. I didn’t restart this browser and it maintained a working connection.
Reenabling the mss rule and restarting chromium and firefox-esr made it work again.
This is probably an issue on my side but I’m not competent to determine so posting this as information.
I still have issues. Especially if using wifi, but most of the time when using mobile as well. Tried rebooting the router but not helping.
Yeah my tricks didn’t work long term either. Posting from mobile the only thing that works consistently.
I’ve tried a lot of things! Bypassing my router, disabling the firewall (both at the same time eeek!) and nothing works consistently.
In firefox I’ve tried disabling javascript with ublock which is kind of interesting. Without javascript I get pages to load but even then it sometimes stalls. By turning javascript on and off and force reloading via the ublock menu I can get things moving again. Occasionally when doing this on/off/reload dance even the javascript enabled page will load. Discuss without javascript isn’t useful though as content isn’t loaded in it’s entirety.
Chromium acts the same as firefox and can’t connect until suddenly it can! Posting this from chromium and it’s the first session with multiple successful page loads since 17 days ago. Was trying to analyse the traffic with inspector in chromium and firefox and after all these reloads and opening of single resources it suddenly works.
And so does firefox all of a sudden. No need to block javascript or do any other dances after 30min of troubleshooting.
This stuff is crazy.
Edit: firefox now stalls again a few minutes later… Chromium still working. Firefox could be jumpstarted with the javascript/reload dance.
Do you have DNS over HTTPS or other encrypted DNS set in Firefox? I believe it is on by default now.
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You could also try to install pihole (or similar) on a machine and pointing your machine to its DNS server. This stinks of some DNS issue.