Comics.com down hard
Carl Fink
I say again: I'm a bit out of practice, but I can do a better job than
United Media's admins.
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aemeijers
> They don't even appear to have a valid DNS right now.
>
> I say again: I'm a bit out of practice, but I can do a better job than
> United Media's admins.
here and deal with real life for awhile, or I'd go down my bookmarks and
see if any other sites are missing.
Hope it it ain't another DNS DOS attack or anything annoying like that.
--
aem sends...
Paul Ciszek
In article <BJWdnVhVss3t_z_X...@giganews.com>,
I can still get 9 Chickweed and Luan through Chron.com, but so far as
I know comics.com was the only source for Jane's World.
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Nick Theodorakis
> In article <BJWdnVhVss3t_z_XnZ2dnUVZ_hli4...@giganews.com>,
>
> aemeijers <aemeij...@att.net> wrote:
> >Carl Fink wrote:
> >> They don't even appear to have a valid DNS right now.
>
> >> I say again: I'm a bit out of practice, but I can do a better job than
> >> United Media's admins.
> >Might not be just them. I can't get to Sinfest either. I have to get off
> >here and deal with real life for awhile, or I'd go down my bookmarks and
> >see if any other sites are missing.
>
> >Hope it it ain't another DNS DOS attack or anything annoying like that.
>
> I can still get 9 Chickweed and Luan through Chron.com, but so far as
> I know comics.com was the only source for Jane's World.
Since Jane's World is only updated once a week, there's a chance it
might get fixed before the next strip.
My question is: is there another place to read Arlo & Janis or Frazz?
Nick
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lee
> They don't even appear to have a valid DNS right now.
>
> I say again: I'm a bit out of practice, but I can do a better job than
> United Media's admins.
> --
It just emailed me my daily comics, but the email did not include any
images.
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Sounds kind of Zen.
Where's La Guardia when you need him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH9tCcrrcak
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What's not in Columbia anymore..
Thomas Skogestad
I've noticed many times when I load my comics that comics.com is down or that
it takes a few minutes for the comics to load. But usually the site will be
up and running again in an hour or two.
Happy non-labor day...
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Eric S. Harris
Sinfest is OK for me, as of about 5 minutes ago. -Eric
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Carl Fink
reading this:
search 4:~$ dig -t ns comics.com
; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2 <<>> -t ns comics.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1310
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;comics.com. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
comics.com. 172726 IN NS umns3.unitedmedia.com.
comics.com. 172726 IN NS umns5.unitedmedia.com.
;; Query time: 8 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 6 10:40:38 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 80
carlf@carlf-ubuntu
search 4:~$ dig @umns3.unitedmedia.com comics.com
; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P2 <<>> @umns3.unitedmedia.com comics.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
So United Media's name servers aren't answering. If anyone knows an IP
address for comics.com, I will bet their actual server is working fine, it
just isn't reachable by its domain name.
aemeijers
Okay, that actually makes sense. The Gubmint Internet has been having
similar problems lately.
Wonder if anyone has an online lookup of IP addresses for popular web
sites? We don't blink at dialing 20-digit phone numbers to save a buck
using a dial-around company, I could build shortcuts with IP addresses
as easily as I do for domain names.
--
aem sends, getting twitchy for the comics not carried in the local rags....
Carl Fink
> http://www.robtex.com/dns/comics.com.html
They just confirm what I already wrote, that the name servers aren't
answering queries about comics.com.
I swear, bright high school students could admin this stuff better.
Kevin J. Maroney
wrote:
>On 2009-09-06, sharyn hartstein <sharynh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.robtex.com/dns/comics.com.html
>
>They just confirm what I already wrote, that the name servers aren't
>answering queries about comics.com.
>
>I swear, bright high school students could admin this stuff better.
Annoyingly, http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ reports it as "up",
possibly because they have the last good IP cached.
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Games are my entire waking life.
Carl Fink
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:51:34 +0000 (UTC), Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On 2009-09-06, sharyn hartstein <sharynh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.robtex.com/dns/comics.com.html
>>
>>They just confirm what I already wrote, that the name servers aren't
>>answering queries about comics.com.
>>
>>I swear, bright high school students could admin this stuff better.
>
> Annoyingly, http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ reports it as "up",
> possibly because they have the last good IP cached.
OK, thanks to the brilliant group mind on Panix, a solution! Add these
lines to your hosts file:
64.58.142.26 comics.com
64.58.142.26 www.comics.com
On Linux systems (and presumably other Unix-like systems such as MacOS) the
hosts file lives in /etc. On Windows, in
%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\.
The system will now look at the IP address shown for comics.com. The actual
web site is not fully functional with this hack, but the RSS feeds work!
Sort of.
ladybug
> 64.58.142.26 comics.com
64.58.142.223 assets.comics.com
is also needed to load the images.
Eric S. Harris
Micro) warned me that the hosts file had changed and asked if I wanted
it changed back. So it's working, too.
Now if it would only quit asking ... -Eric
twk
<2916fa98-3d6d-4a29...@r9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
Nick Theodorakis <nick.the...@gmail.com> wrote:
Finally was curious enough to check the comics.com prob.
Looks like the domain name expired... No? Partial "whois" below.
Registrant:
Domain Administrator
United Media
200 Madison Avenue 4th Floor
New York NY 10016
US
domai...@unitedmedia.com +1.2122938500 Fax: +1.2122938546
Domain Name: comics.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
Domain Administrator
United Media
200 Madison Avenue 4th Floor
New York NY 10016
US
domai...@unitedmedia.com +1.2122938500 Fax: +1.2122938546
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Domain Administrator
United Media
200 Madison Avenue 4th Floor
New York NY 10016
US
domai...@unitedmedia.com +1.2122938500 Fax: +1.2122938546
Created on..............: 1998-12-15.
Expires on..............: 2009-12-13. <<--- Expired, done, over.
Record last updated on..: 2009-07-08.
Domain servers in listed order:
umns3.unitedmedia.com
umns5.unitedmedia.com
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Nancy G (thatwomanfrommassachusetts)
> In article
> <2916fa98-3d6d-4a29-8574-73a1e1e46...@r9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
> Nick Theodorakis <nick.theodora...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sep 5, 9:54 am, nos...@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
> > > In article <BJWdnVhVss3t_z_XnZ2dnUVZ_hli4...@giganews.com>,
>
> > > aemeijers <aemeij...@att.net> wrote:
> > > >Carl Fink wrote:
> > > >> They don't even appear to have a valid DNS right now.
>
> > > >> I say again: I'm a bit out of practice, but I can do a better job than
> > > >> United Media's admins.
> > > >Might not be just them. I can't get to Sinfest either. I have to get off
> > > >here and deal with real life for awhile, or I'd go down my bookmarks and
> > > >see if any other sites are missing.
>
> > > >Hope it it ain't another DNS DOS attack or anything annoying like that.
>
> > > I can still get 9 Chickweed and Luan through Chron.com, but so far as
> > > I know comics.com was the only source for Jane's World.
>
> > Since Jane's World is only updated once a week, there's a chance it
> > might get fixed before the next strip.
>
> > My question is: is there another place to read Arlo & Janis or Frazz?
>
> > Nick
>
> > --
> > Nick Theodorakis
> > contact form:
> >http://theodorakis.net/contact.html
>
> Finally was curious enough to check the comics.com prob.
> Looks like the domain name expired... No? Partial "whois" below.
>
> Registrant:
> Domain Administrator
> United Media
> 200 Madison Avenue 4th Floor
> New York NY 10016
> US
>
> Domain Name: comics.com
>
> Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
> Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
> Registrar Homepage:http://www.markmonitor.com
>
> Administrative Contact:
> Domain Administrator
> United Media
> 200 Madison Avenue 4th Floor
> New York NY 10016
> US
> Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
> Domain Administrator
> United Media
> 200 Madison Avenue 4th Floor
> New York NY 10016
> US
>
> Created on..............: 1998-12-15.
> Expires on..............: 2009-12-13. <<--- Expired, done, over.
> Record last updated on..: 2009-07-08.
>
> Domain servers in listed order:
>
> umns3.unitedmedia.com
> umns5.unitedmedia.com
>
> MarkMonitor is the Global Leader in Enterprise Brand Protection.
>
> Domain Management
> MarkMonitor Brand Protection
> AntiFraud Solutions
> Corporate Consulting Services
>
> Visit MarkMonitor atwww.markmonitor.com
> In Europe, at+44 (0) 20 7840 1300
>
> --
> Hypanthia, Night Elf, Shadow Priest, Enchantress/Herbalist.
> Cowpattee, Tauren, Druid, Enchantress/Herbalist.
Um. Maybe if you're on Druid Central Time. Here in my world, that
domain still has a couple of months left to go.
twk
twk <t...@sleepless.knights.com> wrote:
Oops, I was tired and drinking. LoLoL.
Still drinking, but not as tired now.
D.D.Degg
and have no idea what all the above machinations
mean or how to work them, and need a direct link,
go to http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=C:Comics
and click on your comic of choice.
This site will give you the last five day's worth of
strips (daily and Sunday). I don't know when it updates.
D.D.Degg
Peter B. Steiger
> go to http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=C:Comics and click on your
> comic of choice.
> This site will give you the last five day's worth of strips (daily and
> Sunday).
Thanks! My PBS level was getting dangerously low.
--
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Cheyenne, WY
If you must reply by email, you can reach me by placing zeroes
where you see stars: wypbs.**1 at gmail.com.
Nick Theodorakis
Thanks for digging those up, Carl and ladybug.
Thomas Skogestad
| http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=C:Comics
| and click on your comic of choice.
It works! But the comics are in black and white. (The PBS strip with the FBI
anti-piracy/pirate warning (September 4th, 2009) looks like it was originally
color and then had the colors removed.) There are two versions of the Sunday
PBS. One is bizarrely small, a Sunday comic in the same size of a regular
strip. Smaller, since there's also a huge logo box (or whatever it's called).
There's no Committed. Who knew that comic strip authors looked like that?!
| This site will give you the last five day's worth of
| strips (daily and Sunday). I don't know when it updates.
It doesn't have today's strips.
comics.com still doesn't work.
--
Thomas Skogestad
Pika-Steph
in more than a week. Every time I try to go to the site, it never
loads - it just hangs. There seems to be a cached version (dated
today) but it also loads extremely slow - but you still can't get to
the 'live' current version. What is going on with comics.com? Can
anyone shed some light on this. This is the second time in the past
couple of months with a major outage. I'm about ready to give up.
Carl Fink
Interestingly, it's working perfectly for me and has been for the past week.
Write to them via the parent company, United Media
(http://www.unitedmedia.com/), and tell them exactly what's up. I did that
the last time their site was doing this stuff and eventually got an answer
from the head of their web team.
Mark Jackson
> On 2009-11-01, Pika-Steph <sja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's November 1, 2009 and I have not received e-mails from comics.com
>> in more than a week. Every time I try to go to the site, it never
>> loads - it just hangs. There seems to be a cached version (dated
>> today) but it also loads extremely slow - but you still can't get to
>> the 'live' current version. What is going on with comics.com? Can
>> anyone shed some light on this. This is the second time in the past
>> couple of months with a major outage. I'm about ready to give up.
>
> Interestingly, it's working perfectly for me and has been for the past week.
Same here - and I've visited the site using three different ISPs during
that period.
--
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Not knowing is much more interesting than believing
an answer that might be wrong. - Richard Feynman
tke
Mark Jackson <mjac...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
> > On 2009-11-01, Pika-Steph <sja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It's November 1, 2009 and I have not received e-mails from comics.com
> >> in more than a week. Every time I try to go to the site, it never
> >> loads - it just hangs. There seems to be a cached version (dated
> >> today) but it also loads extremely slow - but you still can't get to
> >> the 'live' current version. What is going on with comics.com? Can
> >> anyone shed some light on this. This is the second time in the past
> >> couple of months with a major outage. I'm about ready to give up.
> >
> > Interestingly, it's working perfectly for me and has been for the past week.
>
> Same here - and I've visited the site using three different ISPs during
> that period.
I have had no problems but I've added the following to my hosts file as
recommended by someone many weeks back:
64.58.142.26 comics.com
64.58.142.26 www.comics.com
64.58.142.223 assets.comics.com
Carl Fink
> I have had no problems but I've added the following to my hosts file as
> recommended by someone many weeks back:
>
> 64.58.142.26 comics.com
> 64.58.142.26 www.comics.com
> 64.58.142.223 assets.comics.com
So did I, but I commented them out again a while back.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat
> On 2009-11-01, tke <t...@foobar.com> wrote:
>
> > I have had no problems but I've added the following to my hosts file as
> > recommended by someone many weeks back:
>
> > 64.58.142.26 comics.com
> > 64.58.142.26 www.comics.com
> > 64.58.142.223 assets.comics.com
>
> So did I, but I commented them out again a while back.
> --
Stranger still, I am periodically getting my comics.com email, but
when I do, only two comics are enclosed only two comics: L'il Abner
and SPot the Frog.
Antonio E. Gonzalez
<mjac...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Carl Fink wrote:
>> On 2009-11-01, Pika-Steph <sja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's November 1, 2009 and I have not received e-mails from comics.com
>>> in more than a week. Every time I try to go to the site, it never
>>> loads - it just hangs. There seems to be a cached version (dated
>>> today) but it also loads extremely slow - but you still can't get to
>>> the 'live' current version. What is going on with comics.com? Can
>>> anyone shed some light on this. This is the second time in the past
>>> couple of months with a major outage. I'm about ready to give up.
>>
>> Interestingly, it's working perfectly for me and has been for the past week.
>
>Same here - and I've visited the site using three different ISPs during
>that period.
Works fine(ish) for me, though I've also had no e-mails from them
for the past week . . .
--
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Thomas Skogestad
--
Thomas Skogestad
Thomas Skogestad
| Right now they're rerunning last Saturday's strips.
But you can make it display today's strips by adding the date:
Crocs
http://comics.com/betty/2009-11-07/
One Pro Soccer Game Viewing
http://comics.com/the_knight_life/2009-11-07/
settling
http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2009-11-07
etc.
(Of course, the site still goes down for a few minutes ever several minutes,
so you still have to be patient.)
--
Thomas Skogestad
Carl Fink
mean, I know of a site Top 1000 site that's run on two servers by two guys
part-time. (Their main job is programming.) Yet it's only down when the ISP
has hardware failures.
How can UM manage to be this incompetent?
tke
Thomas Skogestad <barry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right now they're rerunning last Saturday's strips.
Yep, comics.com is crap. I'm tired of it.
So I found news.yahoo.com to replace them.
The few comics I follow on comics.com are on here also.
<http://news.yahoo.com/comics/>
I'm comics.com free! Ha ha ha.
Paul
Wingnut
"tke" <t...@foobar.com> wrote in message
news:tke-DE1FEF.1...@news.eternal-september.org...
Great link...thanks! Love having the editorial cartoons there as well.
tke
Paul <pssa...@comcast.net.INVALID> wrote:
> No, comics.com down -- easy.
>
> Getting comics.com back up -- hard.
LMAO. :-D
Jim Lahue
At least they have finally gotten around to putting up a page saying
that they of currently doing maintenance -- the site has been down hard
for the last hour or so.
Jim Lahue
Eric S. Harris
I wonder if it's true (them doing maintenance) or if it's just the only
"Oops, sorry!" page they have or can make.
<http://comics.com/maintenance.html>
Maybe one of those "cool new features" is improved availability. -Eric
Carl Fink
It *isn't* that hard. I can do it and so can many thousands of other people.
Paul Ciszek
In article <tke-DE1FEF.1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
They even have Jane's world!
Good-bye forever, comics.com.
BTW, what did Arlo finally decide to do about the boat? I wasn't
able to follow that strip at chron.com.
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Thomas Skogestad
If I click on the magnifying glass, Firefox asks me if I want to open the
image with IE. (!) It then opens in a new IE tab. If I use IE, the magnified
image opens in a separate window (not tab).
I usually magnify Sunday Monty and Committed. Always Committed, as it is
completely unreadable if you don't magnify. Who the heck chose the default
size for Committed on Sundays? Sometimes with Pearls, but PBS is often
readable also with the small Sunday default size. (I'm guessing today's strip
is a reference to a beer commercial I haven't seen.) Oh. Committed is the
only strip that doesn't want to open in IE. (But in IE it still opens a new
window.)
Today's zoomed Pearls
http://c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/dyn/str_strip/300694.zoom.gif
Today's Committed rerun
http://c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/dyn/str_strip/17698.zoom.gif
(I'm runnig Firefox 3.5.4 and IE 8 on Vista. BTW, Vista is way, way better than
XP.)
--
Thomas Skogestad
Satan's Little Sister
<barry...@gmail.com> wrote:
>What on $planet have they done to the zoomed versions of the comics?
>
>If I click on the magnifying glass, Firefox asks me if I want to open the
>image with IE. (!) It then opens in a new IE tab. If I use IE, the magnified
>image opens in a separate window (not tab).
They're serving them with a MIME content-type of
application/octet-stream, when they should be using image/gif.
Given a couple years, comics.com will fix it.
I use a Proxomtiron filter to change the content-type before Firefox
sees it. You could also zoom with a javascript bookmark, instead of
the usual link.
Jim O'Malley
news:34666663...@horisont.pvv.ntnu.no...
> What on $planet have they done to the zoomed versions of the comics?
>
Thankfully, the images are still available at the existing locations... I
don't wanna rewrite my links!
Jim O'Malley
9 Chickweed Lane: An Unofficial Reference
http://image66amarillo.com/9cwl/
Jym Dyer
> application/octet-stream, when they should be using
> image/gif.
=v= Looks like the culprit here is a third-party outfit
named rackspacecloud.com -- two buzzwords in one domain!
<_Jym_>
Peter B. Steiger
> =v= Looks like the culprit here is a third-party outfit named
> rackspacecloud.com -- two buzzwords in one domain!
Way to actualize the synergy!
Eric S. Harris
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:11:41 -0800, Jym Dyer sez:
>
>>=v= Looks like the culprit here is a third-party outfit named
>>rackspacecloud.com -- two buzzwords in one domain!
>
>
> Way to actualize the synergy!
To quote Wally: "Bingo, sir." -Eric