Bug 6063

Summary:	cant get into forums
Product:	Websites	Reporter:	Hiel Van Campen <hielvc>
Component:	Forums	Assignee:	Sherman Boyd (meekrob) (RETIRED) <meekrob>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hiel Van Campen 2002-08-05 17:27:51 UTC

Sererity: normal HELL IT IS!! I'm feakin, but my wife will be happy, sigh.
I can get to www.gentoo.org with fairly good ping stats.
Bugs is soso. see below.
The forums though not accesable on and off for the last three days. Someone else
posted to a.o.l.gentoo (news) about hte same and 3 or 4 others agreed. WE"RE
locked out, help!!!!!! :-)

hielvc 

--- bugs.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 7% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 62.4/74.1/117.1 ms
hielvc@ hielvc $ ping forums.gentoo.org 
/etc/host.conf: line 1: expected service, found `host'
PING forums.gentoo.org (66.250.107.251): 56 octets data

--- forums.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
hielvc@ hielvc $ man ping
hielvc@ hielvc $ ping -c5 forums.gentoo.org 
/etc/host.conf: line 1: expected service, found `host'
PING forums.gentoo.org (66.250.107.251): 56 octets data

--- forums.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
hielvc@ hielvc $ ping -c5 forums.gentoo.org 
/etc/host.conf: line 1: expected service, found `host'
PING forums.gentoo.org (66.250.107.251): 56 octets data

--- forums.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
hielvc@ hielvc $ ping -c3 forums.gentoo.org 
/etc/host.conf: line 1: expected service, found `host'
PING forums.gentoo.org (66.250.107.251): 56 octets data

--- forums.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
hielvc@ hielvc $ ping -c3 forums.gentoo.org 
/etc/host.conf: line 1: expected service, found `host'
PING forums.gentoo.org (66.250.107.251): 56 octets data

--- forums.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
hielvc@ hielvc $ date 
Mon Aug  5 15:16:28 PDT 2002

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-08-05 22:57:00 UTC

forums are back up

i would say dont post bugs about forums being unreachable cause right now they 
go up/down ...

k thx dad have fun :)