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Bluedan
7th February 2006, 02:33
I'm not sure if it has got something to do with my ISP not refreshing its cache properly.
The latest news on doom9 front page show up very delayed now since a couple of days. And today the news from 6th just disappeared! No matter which mirror I try. What to do?

Neo Neko
7th February 2006, 02:39
Not all sites get updated at the same time. It happens from time to time. They will all update eventually though. A while back I was at the root page and the 2 entries for february at the time were gone and january was back. It happens. Nothing to worry about.

Neo Neko
7th February 2006, 02:45
Agh. Forgot the most important bit. :p This likely has nothing to do with your ISP's cache. doom9.org uses a round robbin DNS setup IIRC to perform a bit of load balancing. Refresh the front page 3 times and you might not hit the same server twice. Not all the servers are updated simultaneously. So depending on which server you hit and when you could see different things.

Bluedan
7th February 2006, 12:14
Thanks for clarifying.
In practice it means that I will hit the refresh button a dozen times until I believe that doom9 hadn't submitted a news entry on that date.. ;)

EDIT
In fact, when I started the browser the first time this day doom9 page showed news from 6th this time. After refreshing once it came back with news from 4th as header line. Then I was refreshing for about 30 times and the <latest> news from 6th -aka the most recent page mirror- didn't show up again.
:( Bit annoying, don't you think?

Doom9
7th February 2006, 12:59
hmm.. the synch server seems to have lost the connection to one server. I synched once manually but the script still can't make the connection.

Swede
7th February 2006, 13:05
Strange, it was *my* server that wasn't updated. Normally they will all get updated at the same time but there was an 'Unknown server error' :) Anyway it's beeing updated right now.

Bluedan
7th February 2006, 13:25
Yep. Now proper.
Didn't imagine I was so dependent on your server, Swede...