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Davio
SnitzBitz relocated
24 April 2016, 11:53
Dear Snitz Forums community,
The current SnitzBitz hosts have decided to put their servers to the grave and has given us the SnitzBitz files and database to keep. We have moved the site over to our servers here, ran by Huw, but there are some lingering issues that will take a little longer to fix.
File uploads are not working at the moment, but downloading mods still works.
We're also looking to redo the site using newer technologies, as a make over is long overdue. Thanks for your understanding and patience. :)
Replies ...
richfed
24 April 2016, 15:46
Sounds good, Davio! Look forward to everything you guys do.
Carefree
25 April 2016, 00:45
Newer Technologies
I assume that means .Net? Here's a suggestion for the makeover: add a search capability which will not only search mod titles, but comments, etc. There are some mods (e.g., user groups) which have multiple files and titles ... which would benefit from consolidation. In the current format, unless a user is aware of the multiple entries, some of them could easily be overlooked.
Davio
25 April 2016, 00:51
Thanks Carefree. I know most of the sites many shortcomings. We (gary and I) were working on the search many years ago, but personal lives got in the way. Then progress halted.
Contemplating getting a ready made package to run it. But if none suits us, then see if we can make one using asp.net.
Since you're the #1 user of the site, will consult you on it when I'm ready.
Carefree
27 April 2016, 10:24
OK. I'd offer to help code the search, but don't know enough .Net to be effective. My search functions for my video database do what they're supposed to do, but it's all in .ASP pages.
AnonJr
27 April 2016, 10:59
Unless I've missed something, it's still in Classic ASP. There was some discussion about re-building in .NET, but nothing's moved beyond the discussion/planning stage at this point in time.
HuwR
01 May 2016, 04:31
Originally posted by AnonJr Unless I've missed something, it's still in Classic ASP. There was some discussion about re-building in .NET, but nothing's moved beyond the discussion/planning stage at this point in time.
I am playing with updating it to mvc, partly as an exercise to create a Snitz API for use by MOD writers for the MVC version, so watch this space
MaGraham
10 August 2016, 14:41
Sooo, are the mods located somewhere now in which they can be easily accessed/downloaded?
HuwR
10 August 2016, 14:46
snitzbitz will be back up shortly, still ploughing through getting everything working on the server
MaGraham
10 August 2016, 16:08
Wonderful! Thank you, Huw!
HuwR
10 August 2016, 17:42
well it is back up, but for some reason it is extremely slow, no idea why at the moment
HuwR
11 August 2016, 17:12
snitzbitz now all sorted and running as it should. I had to change the connection string in config asp to use sqloledb instead of {SQL Server}
s80ts0465
29 December 2016, 05:23
snitzbitz is down again?
HuwR
29 December 2016, 07:44
ok, will take a look
HuwR
29 December 2016, 07:45
seems to be ok for me, what error are you getting ?
s80ts0465
29 December 2016, 08:55
is the right link https://www.snitzbitz.com/?
Impossible to contact the server, it seems like the website doesn't exist anymore.
HuwR
29 December 2016, 10:06
mmm, works fine for me I'll investigate
HuwR
29 December 2016, 13:13
I gave DNS a kick, looks like a nameserver IP change didn't propagate, hopefully it should sort itself out
richfed
29 December 2016, 17:39
I just visited there now via my bookmark.
s80ts0465
30 December 2016, 05:15
it doesn't seem top work for me :-(
HuwR
30 December 2016, 10:08
It may take a while to filter down. When I tested from work yesterday it did not load, but it was ok when I checked this morning.
s80ts0465
30 December 2016, 11:53
Ok, I'll wait.
Anyhow I'm only looking for the mod that allow to load and view PDF file directly in the forum. May you upload it here so I can start to work on the implementation?
HuwR
30 December 2016, 12:46
try this http://snitzbitz.reddiweb.com/
s80ts0465
30 December 2016, 13:30
always the same error, later I'm gonna try from home
HuwR
30 December 2016, 15:33
what error are you getting?
RichardKinser
30 December 2016, 17:17
Huw,
Just not getting DNS Name resolution for either:
Code:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert snitzbitz.reddiweb.com Unable to resolve target system name snitzbitz.reddiweb.com.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert www.snitzbitz.com Unable to resolve target system name www.snitzbitz.com.
Davio
30 December 2016, 20:52
IntoDNS shows nameservers not responding: https://intodns.com/snitzbitz.com OpenDNS reports server failure for all it's server world wide, trying to retrieve nameserver records for snitzbitz: https://cachecheck.opendns.com/
Funny enough, snitzbitz loads for me. Ip address shows 37.220.100.60 for snitzbitz.com.
HuwR
31 December 2016, 04:00
yep works for me too, but some places returning the wrong IP for the name servers
Webbo
31 December 2016, 05:26
Works ok at this end
s80ts0465
01 January 2017, 11:51
what can I do to make it works for me too?
HuwR
01 January 2017, 17:43
you could edit your windows hosts file and add an entry specifically for it
it's IP is 37.220.100.60
For Windows 10 and 8
1.Press the Windows key.
2.Type Notepad in the search field.
3.In the search results, right-click Notepad and select Run as administrator.
4.From Notepad, open the following file: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts.
5.Make the necessary changes to the file.
6.Click File > Save to save your changes.
Add the following at the end of the file 37.220.100.60 www.snitzbitz.com
s80ts0465
02 January 2017, 03:41
Ok thanks, it works!
s80ts0465
04 January 2017, 18:40
Hi, th same problem with http://forum.snitz.com/mvc/ Which is the right IP for this site?
HuwR
05 January 2017, 08:53
Originally posted by s80ts0465 Hi, th same problem with http://forum.snitz.com/mvc/ Which is the right IP for this site?
mvc part not currently working
Davio
05 January 2017, 22:27
Snitzbitz not working for me anymore. Not finding an ip address for the domain name.
ruirib
06 January 2017, 01:29
It's working for me. IntoDNS does seem to indicate some issues with the nameservers. DNSStuff couldn't provide a DNS report...
HuwR
06 January 2017, 06:01
not sure what's up, somewhere is caching the wrong IP addresses for the nameservers, odd thing is that they were changed several months ago, so not sure why it has started to go pear shaped recently.
Classicmotorcycling
07 January 2017, 00:55
I do not have any issues getting to SnitzBitz and just did a tracert from Melbourne, Australia. Maybe those having issues can do one to show where the issue maybe:
Open up a command prompt window and type: tracert www.snitzbitz.com
C:\>tracert www.snitzbitz.com
Tracing route to www.snitzbitz.com [37.220.100.60] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 20 ms 118 ms 20 ms 172.18.210.13 3 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms 172.18.68.129 4 21 ms 21 ms 20 ms bundle-ether4.win-edge901.melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.76.10]
5 22 ms 23 ms 21 ms bundle-ether11.win-core10.melbourne.telstra.net [203.50.11.107]
6 33 ms 33 ms * bundle-ether12.ken-core10.sydney.telstra.net [203.50.11.122]
7 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms bundle-ether1.pad-gw11.sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.61]
8 33 ms 34 ms 33 ms bundle-ether1.sydp-core04.sydney.reach.com [203.50.13.90]
9 181 ms 181 ms 181 ms i-52.tlot-core02.bx.telstraglobal.net [202.84.137.101]
10 242 ms 241 ms 243 ms i-0-4-0-6.tnrt-core01.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.40.149.145]
11 319 ms 317 ms 317 ms i-0-3-0-4.ulhc-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net [202.84.252.218]
12 364 ms 322 ms 323 ms 202.84.178.153 13 * * * Request timed out.
14 357 ms * 351 ms g4-2-gs2-ar2.router.uk.clara.net [195.157.6.218]
15 320 ms 319 ms 320 ms g8-1-gs2-ar2.router.uk.clara.net [195.157.6.54]
16 337 ms 320 ms 320 ms po1.br1.str.uk.idllt.net [80.168.71.254]
17 320 ms 321 ms 320 ms 78.40.33.14 18 330 ms 331 ms 332 ms 78.40.33.6 19 320 ms 319 ms 320 ms reddiweb.net [37.220.100.60]
Trace complete.
C:\>
This might help in detecting which ISP's are still grabbing the wrong DNS. Just a thought.
golfmann
10 January 2017, 11:54
Using IP above, I get this:
Using snitsbitz.com, this:
HuwR
10 January 2017, 12:34
you can't connect to an IIS website via IP address unless it is the only site hosted on that IP address and with a blank host name
HuwR
10 January 2017, 12:36
Davio,
Could you try changing the primary nameserver to ns1.reddi-web.com
ruirib
10 January 2017, 14:18
Originally posted by HuwR Davio,
Could you try changing the primary nameserver to ns1.reddi-web.com
I changed it - domain name is registered by me, now.
HuwR
10 January 2017, 14:23
ok, thanks rui. lets see if that makes any difference
ruirib
11 January 2017, 01:33
For me, it seems to have made it worse. Now the domain name is not being resolved...
HuwR
11 January 2017, 10:56
rui, if you get an email from namecheap, could you follow the link and authorize.
free backup dns service, will add to there as well see if we can get this dns sorted out
HuwR
11 January 2017, 15:36
Actually, could you forward the email to me, I need to click the link
ruirib
12 January 2017, 08:48
Will do, but no mail so far, Huw.
HuwR
12 January 2017, 09:12
oh, will try a resend, should have received it, mine arrived within 5 mins.
I have also set up 2 new a records to point at dns, just waiting for those to propagate. Obviously something screwed up somewhere.
I did a check on 2 of my domains which both use the same nameservers, one works the other doesn't, when run through intodns, it returns a completely different IP addresses for the same nameserver records.
(one is a .co.uk the other a .com) the .co.uk works fine and returns the correct IP addresses for the NS records, the .com does not
ruirib
12 January 2017, 13:41
Maybe you are using an old email address? Did you send it to the email address on my profile here?
HuwR
12 January 2017, 13:51
It is the one registered against the domain I presume, I picked it from a list so assume that is the case, unfortunately I can't enter an address manually
HuwR
12 January 2017, 13:53
I just resent one, and yes it is the same email as your email here
ruirib
13 January 2017, 04:59
Haven't received either. Can you try similar address but at domain outlook.com?
HuwR
13 January 2017, 06:03
unfortunately not. I will contact them and ask them to authorize it manually, however not sure if it is working, I pointed one of my other hardly used domains at there dns servers and it has now completely disappeared
the stupid thing is if I force a lookup on the root servers they seem to have the correct addresses and IP, it's blood odd.
what can I do to make it works for me too?
