Wierd behavior of mad.orderlymayhem.com link

[BS-er]

Since the transition to the new server, I've gotten strange behavior when selecting links to mad.orderlymayhem.com.  If opening a new browser, the first attempt to access that link fails.  Subsequent attempts always succeed with that browser open.

I was wondering if ayone else observed this.  I've seen it on two PCs already.  I wonder if somthing is cached that is causing the problem.  Still, if it can hapen to my two PCs it can happen to others.

I haven't see it with other subdomains.  For example, Mantis works fine.

I'm using IE 7.

[CmptrWz]

Only the dev team group can see in here, for the record.

[BS-er]

Ah, I thought the testers might be able to see it as well.

Moved to General Discussion forum.

[BS-er]

I would appreciate comments from as many as possible on this.  Please reply and indicate that you either have no problem at all, or you do see a problem when going to http://mad.orderlymayhem.com for the first time when a browser is opened.  I already know CmptrWz doesn't see the problem, so it apparently doesn't affect all systems.

Please indicate what browser you are using.

[CmptrWz]

Lets improve my report:

On windows at home (desktop and laptop, we'll call it windows XP pro in both cases):
IE5.55 - No issues
IE6 - No issues
IE7 - No issues
Firefox 2 - No issues
Safari - No issues
Opera - No issues

At work on Fedora 8:
Firefox 2 - No issues

[OvermindDL1]

Opera 9.5 seems fine.
Firefox2 seems fine.
Firefox3 seems fine.
Tried a link on each.

[Lizard]

anyone having issues trying to view the M.A.D. testing forums ?


I just get a blank page when I click the link, all other sections of the board appear fine.


I'm using firefox.

[Commando]

Yeah, I believe I got a 505 error using IE 7.0.

[BS-er]

I think I broke it .  I accidentally deleted a topic, meaning to delete a double-post.  The topic went to the Deleted Topics area.  I moved the topic back to the Tester forum, tried to change it, and then it seemed to go to crap.  I put in a message to CmptrWz.  I hope I dond't mess it up too badly.

[CmptrWz]

The doublepost mod had a serious coding flaw. And I mean serious. And I checked, it was in the original package.

I removed the mod and fixed things.

On the 505 error bit, I have checked the logs, and there are no log entries for 505 errors being returned by the server. There are some errors, but some of them appear to be "the forum was having issues" and the rest were "they changed something and a warning was being spit out about something I hadn't corrected yet". I fixed the latter. The former I can't reproduce right now.

[Commando]

Sorry, it showed up as a 500 error.  Not sure what it means.

[CmptrWz]

Technically I scanned for all 50x errors, found nothing.

But I did notice that interaction between the wiki and the forum software is causing some....oddities. I am not sure, though, why it seems to happen pretty much at random, and I don't think it would affect what anyone is seeing as they are all notices and warnings, not errors.

[BS-er]

The strange behavior where http://mad.orderlymayhem.com fails to load is gone.  It transitioned to an intermittent problem and now I can't replicate the problem at all.

Maybe it has something to do with the same Trend Micro Internet Security Suite being installed on both my PCs, although disabling the firewall didn't help it.

Maybe it was something local to my corner of the Internet, and all it needed was time.  Either way, I'm glad it's gone.