Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#1

Post by RiderOfGiraffes » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 3:51 PM UTC

When my login cookie is set I can't read anything, but if I delete it then I can. Is there currently a problem? It seems to have been so for an hour or more.

Current time 15:50 Zulu.

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#2

Post by icey » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 4:47 PM UTC

Same problem here. I managed to get in using incognito mode on Chrome.

Edit - never mind, it doesn't really work. As soon as I try to get back to the front page after a cookie has been set I get the same problem.

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#3

Post by vyrotek » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:04 PM UTC

Yeah, the 'incognito' trick seems to work though.

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#4

Post by jamesbritt » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:22 PM UTC

I've been having really spotty site connections and timeouts, though

     http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com

says all is OK.

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#5

Post by wolfish » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

jamesbritt wrote: post #4

I've been having really spotty site connections and timeouts, though http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/news.ycombinator.com says all is OK.

Intereseting example of a connectivity problem that site wouldn't spot.

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#6

Post by mschaecher » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

I can't access HN on Chrome at all. Firefox I can though. Someone else on Twitter can't using either. And there are other tweets reporting HN as down as well.

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#7

Post by mindcrime » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

It's back?

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#8

Post by j_baker » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:24 PM UTC

I've been unable to access the site for a couple of hours. It magically just came back up though.

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#9

Post by woodrow » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:29 PM UTC

I also confirm that it now seems to be fixed after several hours of problems.

Good call by RiderOfGiraffes on the cookie. At first I thought it might've been a DNS caching issue with Firefox, but after Wiresharking the connection it was clear that it was asking the right server, but the response was timing out (30s for Firefox). This didn't happen from other browsers or by going to 174.132.225.106 directly. In retrospect, these were all situations where the cookie would not be included...

Re: Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?

#10

Post by alexitosrv » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 5:34 PM UTC

I had that same problem. Apparently, everything is fine now.

I tried deleting cookies, and then I entered fine to HN. However, If I tried to login, no response again.

Then, I used links (CLI browser) to troubleshoot, and the problem was there when I tried to login. So, no idea what has happened, but something was wrong at the server side.