hi all
Apologies for the recent outage - our DNS name server provider, ChangeIP.com suffered a catastrophic database failure on Sunday at 2pm EST. This meant there was no way for anyone trying to access WarGear.net from determining the site's IP address.
I disabled autoboots shortly after being notified of this event so no-one should have been booted as a result. I'll reset turn timers and re-enable autoboot at 2pm EST on Wednesday to give sufficient time for everyone to get access again.
cheers
Tom
Awesome - Thanks Tom. I don't even have but a handful of games going but I could feel the withdrawal symptoms kicking in.
Thanks for the update Tom!
Thanks Tom. I really appreciate you keeping WarGear going!
Thanks Tom - I did feel cut off from the world ---
Thanks Tom. Disabling the autoboots for the short time period is awesome.
so what about real time games... Just realized that in a real time game the other player went offline and his turn won't skip. lol
ah, good point about RT games.
i think last time this happened RT games were suspended until the timer was turned back on; so would you rather do without or deal with the wait until it's your turn?
I mean the game has already started so I just have to make sure I am back by 2EST lol. Meanwhile I just won't start any.
Not a big deal. Just caught me by surprise
Thank you Tom!! Was getting worried, thought I might have to become productive or something resembling that, whew.
I'm getting the DNS error only at my office but nowhere else, is there a possibility our IP was blocked accidentally? We do have multiple players in the office, perhaps it flagged something?
try clearing your cookies and trying again?
Have boots been re-enabled? I have days-old RT games that my opponents have abandoned, so I'm checking to make sure when boots are re-enabled so I don't get booted myself.
should be turned back on -- according to tom's post 2PM EST today.
it looks like it's ticking in my games. i'm wondering if it is either a different set of logic of the RT games? or maybe it only applies for new games?
I'm in a couple of daily games that are past their turn timer as well
I just started a new real-time game. Boots are still not working.
I've noticed the same thing. I am afraid the boot will be turned on for my real time game and I won't be on and get booted :( Wish there was a work around. Maybe turn it into a 1 day turn or something.
The cleanest solution would be to terminate/cancel those games.
This game seems to be stuck: http://www.wargear.net/games/view/543872
I notice even new RT games are not booting.... when will it be back up?