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Technical News & Discussion => IDNet Help => Topic started by: .Griff. on Jan 03, 2011, 13:45:55

Title: Wikipedia
Post by: .Griff. on Jan 03, 2011, 13:45:55
Probably a temporary blip but Wikipedia won't load for me.

Can someone else try for me?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Ray on Jan 03, 2011, 13:47:59
Seems to be ok now, .Griff
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: .Griff. on Jan 03, 2011, 13:49:17
I seem to be stuck on "connecting to bits.wikimedia.org....."
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Steve on Jan 03, 2011, 13:49:55
I can't get it to load
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: .Griff. on Jan 03, 2011, 13:50:50
Quote from: Steve on Jan 03, 2011, 13:49:55
I can't get it to load

At least it's not just me then.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Ray on Jan 03, 2011, 13:52:29
Loads straight away for me, which dns are you using? I've got Idnet as primary and Norton as secondary.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: .Griff. on Jan 03, 2011, 13:56:38
It's not a DNS issue. The page starts loading but times out when it attempts to connect to bits.wikimedia.org (I think that's the bit responsible for the donations message you see at the top of each page unless you've closed it)
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Steve on Jan 03, 2011, 14:01:02
I've tried IDNet,OpenDNS, Norton and Google DNS with Safari but the only time I can get through is on FF but it's not consistent and doesn't seem to matter which DNS I'm using.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Glenn on Jan 03, 2011, 14:10:29
Working fine for me too.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: .Griff. on Jan 03, 2011, 14:11:16
Seems ok again now. The Hamster must have fallen off for 10 minutes.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Rik on Jan 03, 2011, 14:32:55
Working but slow here.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: zappaDPJ on Jan 03, 2011, 15:31:09
Working at light speed for me, the page was instant. Perhaps I have it cached.

[EDIT] Navigating around the site it is remarkably fast to such an extent I wonder if they have upgraded their infrastructure which might have caused the issues?
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Rik on Jan 03, 2011, 15:49:34
Back up to speed here too.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: sobranie on Jan 03, 2011, 15:53:05
Instant connx here.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: pctech on Jan 03, 2011, 19:36:01
Working ok here.



Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: Simon on Jan 03, 2011, 23:37:28
Instant here.  :)
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: .Griff. on Jan 04, 2011, 00:11:37
The "issue" was resolved by about 2pm but cheers for the replies guys.
Title: Re: Wikipedia
Post by: pctech on Jan 04, 2011, 20:36:09
glad to hear you can now reach that mountain of trivia again  ;D