BlackOps
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the last week it has been literally impossible with multiple attempts to access this site. I never had this kind of problems. and yes it is only this site.
tractor240
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I had the same problem last week on Firefox. Checked with Android phone, no probs.
In my case it turned out to be Firefox security settings needed to be changed. I suspect that TBN changed some settings last week.
Can you guys detail what the security issue was? We haven't changed things last week or the week before that. Is it an SSL error? Connection refused? Just spins forever?
tractor240
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I had it set on Max protection but had to drop it back to Increased Protection to get the site to load. Never had a site break before with this setting including TBN.
Just tried it on Max again and I got the same as I got last week:
Thank you!
Okay, I know the issue, and I'm REALLY glad you showed me the screenshot.
So this is technically my fault because I set up a Cloudflare account for Tractorbynet but I didn't switch us over yet because I have to do a couple more things on the server to make sure Cloudflare doesn't break our site, right? So for the past month, every Nameserver on the Internet except Cloudflare has the same IPs set up. I didn't realize until earlier this week (when another user reached out to us) and I theorized maybe Cloudflare was causing an issue due to me not switching over yet.
I will get this fixed this weekend, you do not have to switch the DNS Resolver (aka Nameserver) from Cloudflare.
Apologies that it affected you all this way, I honestly thought I would be saving some time, but I guess I was too clever for my own good.
-Ibrahim
Okay, I know the issue, and I'm REALLY glad you showed me the screenshot.
So this is technically my fault because I set up a Cloudflare account for Tractorbynet but I didn't switch us over yet because I have to do a couple more things on the server to make sure Cloudflare doesn't break our site, right? So for the past month, every Nameserver on the Internet except Cloudflare has the same IPs set up. I didn't realize until earlier this week (when another user reached out to us) and I theorized maybe Cloudflare was causing an issue due to me not switching over yet.
I will get this fixed this weekend, you do not have to switch the DNS Resolver (aka Nameserver) from Cloudflare.
Apologies that it affected you all this way, I honestly thought I would be saving some time, but I guess I was too clever for my own good.
-Ibrahim
crreed67
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Mine is the same as tractor420's response. I'm using Brave though. I deactivated everything and got the same trouble page. Even tried Chrome and Firefox and got the same. Just got the trouble connecting page about 3 minutes ago. Left for a bit, came back and it worked normally again. It's been doing this for about a week to a week and a half.
ArlyA
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I just got on later last night after a 36 hour "this site is not available" hetits. Tried Phone and desktop. Seems to be operating now.
It should be fixed this afternoon after the reboot.
anomad
Gold Member
Might be related, I have been getting this off and on lately. Usually disconnecting from VPN and drilling back into the forums from the home page gets me past it.
If I do a hard refresh (ctrl-F5) when I get that FF gives me this.
I have Firefox locked down pretty tight and usually run on VPN. That combination definitely breaks some pages. If I disconnect VPN and hop over to a browser with just normal security settings I can usually get by. Ironically, two financial institutions I have accounts with won't let me log in unless I use Edge pretty much running wide open.
If I do a hard refresh (ctrl-F5) when I get that FF gives me this.
I have Firefox locked down pretty tight and usually run on VPN. That combination definitely breaks some pages. If I disconnect VPN and hop over to a browser with just normal security settings I can usually get by. Ironically, two financial institutions I have accounts with won't let me log in unless I use Edge pretty much running wide open.
FullMetalBucket
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Torvy
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I really appreciate the straightforward approach to sharing what's wrong. I didn't even have any problems.
This site can’t be reached
www.tractorbynet.com took too long to respond.Try:
- Checking the connection
- Checking the proxy and the firewall
