Has Avsim been hacked?

[Penzoil3]

[QUOTE=MrZippy;
Sorry for the difficulties!

P.S. It's AVSIM.com that you want to use.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, about that...

[gray eagle]

I have been good for most of the day. Contacted the tech at about 5:30 am pdst and it took only a couple of hours to fix. He stated that it may take a few more hours for all of the DNS servers to get in alignment for everyone.

Sorry for the difficulties!

P.S. It's AVSIM.com that you want to use.

Thanks for checking into the issues with AVSIM.
I got .com for the forum and .net for the library. At least that is what my bookmarks say.

[MrZippy]

I have read that some that use the Chrome op system had difficulties and tried Firefox and it worked. My Chromebook has been OK most all of today.

For those having a problem.....Do you always login and logout of the site each time you use it? Don't think that could be the problem, but thought I'd ask.

I sent the tech another email asking him about this situation.

Has anyone tried resetting their winsock? I found this while searching dns problems,

[Penzoil3]

Flushed the DNS, cleared the browser cache, reset the winsock. Rebooted the computer. No luck, still no AVSIM.

[gray eagle]

Flushed the DNS, cleared the browser cache, reset the winsock. Rebooted the computer. No luck, still no AVSIM.

Same here. No luck either.

[Mick]

AvSim is back.

I may have been onto something when I suggested that maybe they'd forgotten to pay their interweb hosting bill.

Maybe they have a small, overworked staff. Recently they didn't add anything to their library for a while because one guy was away on vacation.

[gray eagle]

AvSim is back.

I may have been onto something when I suggested that maybe they'd forgotten to pay their interweb hosting bill.

Maybe they have a small, overworked staff. Recently they didn't add anything to their library for a while because one guy was away on vacation.

If they are back then, only partially for some as I still cannot logon. I cannot understand why some here say they are back and can logon while some say AVSIM
didn't pay their bill. A strange duality.

[MrZippy]

If they are back then, only partially for some as I still cannot logon. I cannot understand why some here say they are back and can logon while some say AVSIM
didn't pay their bill. A strange duality.

It is back and working for most. I still have not heard back from the AVSIM tech about the login problems some are having. I am no IT guy but did some minor networking when I was working. My only other thought is if you have a router or modem for your internet service, has that been rebooted (unplugged from power...wait for a minute, then plug back in)?

[gray eagle]

It is back and working for most. I still have not heard back from the AVSIM tech about the login problems some are having. I am no IT guy but did some minor networking when I was working. My only other thought is if you have a router or modem for your internet service, has that been rebooted (unplugged from power...wait for a minute, then plug back in)?

No, none of the above pertain. AVSIM is the only site that I have issues with. An enigma to say the least. My router is working just fine or else I wouldn't of made this post here. There are others
out there that are experiencing same issues.

[MrZippy]

No, none of the above pertain. AVSIM is the only site that I have issues with. An enigma to say the least. My router is working just fine or else I wouldn't of made this post here. There are others
out there that are experiencing same issues.

What's your web browser? Firefox, IE, Chrome? My thought was that the router may be holding a bad DNS for AVSIM (just AVSIM), that's why I suggested the router reboot.

Also has anyone flushed their browser cache?

[gray eagle]

Info here advising NOT to change your personal ISP:
Changing your DNS to 8.8.8.8 will let Google spy on you even more than it does now. But if you’re already using their spyware browser for everything you do on a computer, it probably won’t make very much difference.


Charlie: I use FF and as a backup Edge. My son who lives remotely told me the link I gave him looks the same as what I see.


https://www.quora.com/What-does-chan...-to-8-8-8-8-do

[gray eagle]

Looks like AVSIM is working for me now. Finally.

[Penzoil3]

Works for me today. Finally.

[MrZippy]

Works for me today. Finally.

Great! You can ignore the PM I just sent you! I guess it's taking a long time for the dns servers to make the correction in each area.

[Dangerousdave26]

It may help next time to reboot your modem or router. Those will often times cache dns entries.

You can also do an nslookup to compare the IP Address from different DNS servers.

I have been told it takes up to 24 hours for DNS changes to work though the internet. I have never experienced it taking that long.