[Geocaching.com Is Down For Maintenance]

I still just get the geocaching.com is down for maintenance message with the sick looking signal. I have cleared caches, etc. Tried two ISPs. Rebooted. Nothing Helps.

 

bobchernow

 

Is it just me now!

 

I had the same problem this evening. I had an entry in my hosts file for gc.com pointing to 66.150.167.149. That gave the maintenance page. After removing the entry from the hosts file, everything is working fine again. Maybe that helps for you too?

[Now Everything Is Gone]

My traces as mentioned here show the data is missing "as sent". It is not removed by the browser.

[In Cache Page Pictures Gone]

I have done some tests using ethereal to trace what's going on. The difference between tables shown/not shown seems to be in the cookie send in the http GET request.

 

The difference between tables shown or not shown is immediately clear in the first http reply (200 OK) from gc.com, Content-Length is much lower if tables are missing, so the difference seems to be caused by the GET request sent.

 

If cookie is not sent (not logged in), tables are shown correctly

If cookie is sent with userid and ASP.NET_SessionId, tables are shown correctly

If cookie is sent with only userid, tables are not shown.

 

These results match with the experience the problem only occurs if a cache page is requested through an external link.

 

I used GCRQZ5 for testing via this link.

 

Responses are coming from 66.150.167.149, which resolves back to www.geocaching.com, so there is no proof of proxies being used.

 

I have trace files available if Jeremy cs are interested. My location is Europe, The Netherlands and I am using ADSL for Internet access.

 

I hope this helps to find the problem.