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DanPan

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Hi Signal,

 

Are you sick?

 

Has anyone more information?

When will GC.com be up and running again?

 

Greetings from Belgium,

DanPan

Edited by DanPan
BalkanSabranje

+BalkanSabranje

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Similar questions here: when can we expect the server to be up and running again? We deperately need to print out some descriptions!

 

And: couldn't planned maintenace (during the day!) be announced some days in advance so that at least the PMs could download the urgently needed data?!

 

TIA for quick repair.

 

BalkanSabranje

Deliveryguy428

+Deliveryguy428

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And who to say this was planned? This might be a case of something going wrong and the default page kicked in. So it might take someone from Groundspeak to come into the office first thing today and notice it is messed up and fix it.

Jors

+Jors

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Most likely nót planned, but I'm sure we can expect an announcement soon.

When 'soon' is, is anyone's guess...

JRM-IRL

+JRM-IRL

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Similar questions here: when can we expect the server to be up and running again? We deperately need to print out some descriptions!

 

 

Ditto here in GMT zone...a whole days caching is going down the swanny :laughing:

baelrati

+baelrati

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couldn't planned maintenance (during the day!) be announced ...
Here in Groundspeak's time zone, it's 2:00 in the morning.

 

Well, the site is already down for quite some time (now at least 4,5 hours). By now there should be at least a statement about what is going on. Usually, technical services are monitored around the clock, and staff is notified by email/sms/pager as soon as a problem occurs. So the reaction time is very low! This is even more important if you provide a service around the clock. Geocaching is played worldwide after all.

JRM-IRL

+JRM-IRL

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This is even more important if you provide a service around the clock. Geocaching is played worldwide after all.

 

Thank you for making that point more politely than I felt able to manage. I'm just bitter, but my mother and I planned this day out all week and re arranged our schedules so we could both have the whole day off together. :laughing:

Zinnware

+Zinnware

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Similar questions here: when can we expect the server to be up and running again? We deperately need to print out some descriptions!

 

 

Ditto here in GMT zone...a whole days caching is going down the swanny :laughing:

Don't let the geocaching server outage ruin your day!

If you are a member, you can get GPX files emailed to you weekly or even more often. From that data, you can print off any cache page you want without being connected to geocaching.com. I for example have weekly queries sent to me showing the nearest 500 geocaches that I have not found. Geocaching could be down for a year and I would still have geocaches to find. You can use either GSAK or the Watcher, a GPX utility to view or print out geocaches from the GPX file generated from the query..

Even if your query results were from last week, you would still be able to review caches that existed up until that point in time.

whistler & co.

+whistler & co.

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Stock your cachemobile with the printouts of a few of those long multis you never seem to find time for (everyone has a couple of those within 50 miles of home, right?). Use them when all else fails!

Ambrosia

+Ambrosia

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This is even more important if you provide a service around the clock. Geocaching is played worldwide after all.

 

Thank you for making that point more politely than I felt able to manage. I'm just bitter, but my mother and I planned this day out all week and re arranged our schedules so we could both have the whole day off together. :laughing:

That's too bad that your day was messed up by this! :laughing:

 

I always like to do pq's or planning a couple days in advance, so something like this doesn't ruin a caching day/weekend. Then I have a safety net. :laughing:

solomonfamily

+solomonfamily

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Also noticed here in Melbourne Australia, I found a few caches today while I was meant to be at a conference - came home 4pm to log but the site was down - it is now 8:45pm still down...... Hey no one tell my boss I was off caching in stead of listening to a lecture....... :laughing:

Team Mojito

+Team Mojito

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All that I wan't is an official note, telling what I can expect in the near future - Will .com be running again today or is it really bad? :laughing:

Edited by Team Mojito
homedg

+homedg

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Surely someone can provide an estimate of downtime? Or am I the last human left on earth and my only link to my past existence is the internet connection I'm using which links to...... well, nowhere. :laughing:

Yellow ants

+Yellow ants

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It's back but not working very well! I can link to caches but getting errors and no info.....looks like soemthing serious has gone wrong :laughing:

 

I think the entire cache database has disappeared. They're rummaging through the woods for the tape backups, hidden in GCNXPQ :laughing: :laughing:

duejensen

+duejensen

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I think the entire cache database has disappeared. They're rummaging through the woods for the tape backups, hidden in GCNXPQ :laughing: :laughing:

 

And have to find someone having a GSAK including GCNXPQ :laughing:

Ko

+Ko

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Don't let the geocaching server outage ruin your day!

If you are a member, you can get GPX files emailed to you weekly or even more often. From that data, you can print off any cache page you want without being connected to geocaching.com. I for example have weekly queries sent to me showing the nearest 500 geocaches that I have not found. Geocaching could be down for a year and I would still have geocaches to find. You can use either GSAK or the Watcher, a GPX utility to view or print out geocaches from the GPX file generated from the query..

Even if your query results were from last week, you would still be able to review caches that existed up until that point in time.

 

The GPX files are very useful indeed, but don't you like to log your visits, grabbed TB's, coins etc.?

CoyoteRed

CoyoteRed

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Don't let the geocaching server outage ruin your day!

If you are a member, you can get GPX files emailed to you weekly or even more often. From that data, you can print off any cache page you want without being connected to geocaching.com. I for example have weekly queries sent to me showing the nearest 500 geocaches that I have not found. Geocaching could be down for a year and I would still have geocaches to find. You can use either GSAK or the Watcher, a GPX utility to view or print out geocaches from the GPX file generated from the query..

Even if your query results were from last week, you would still be able to review caches that existed up until that point in time.

 

The GPX files are very useful indeed, but don't you like to log your visits, grabbed TB's, coins etc.?

Sure, but it's not necessary to geocache. At least with an off line database you can still geocache.

 

The maintenance issue might be related to this.

Edited by CoyoteRed
OHMIKY

+OHMIKY

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Site is up, sort of. Anytime I go to look at a cache listing, I get:

 

An Error Has Occured

 

Invalid column name 'RefName'.

 

I get the same - I can only surmise that the techs are too busy trying to fix to come make any comment.

RSB

+RSB

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If nothing else comes from this down time period, you sure know how important Geocaching is to you.

Dhalihalama

+Dhalihalama

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Why don't we all hide ourselves a new cache instead of being disgruntled. I would if it wasn't going to rain for the next 40 days and nights again in the New England area!

Edited by Dhalihalama
jaypit

+jaypit

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Looks like a perfect opportunity to go find some puzzle caches I have solved! Jeremy hasn't made a post on his thread, must be bad. I'm sure they'll get if fixed soon. Now where's those puzzle coords........

VI Waypoint Hunters

VI Waypoint Hunters

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Invalid column name 'RefName'.

 

Please tell us what it means (in human not Technical Jargon B)B) )

:laughing::rolleyes::laughing::laughing::laughing:B):o

 

Its Broken

 

I thought something was funny last night about 7:00 PM Groundspeak time when I opened a couple of pages on cacher profiles and below their cache finds list was displayed the programing paths and links etc. It was wierd and I thought 'Oh-oh this can't be good........' :lol:

JRM-IRL

+JRM-IRL

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Ditto here in GMT zone...a whole days caching is going down the swanny :D

Don't let the geocaching server outage ruin your day!

If you are a member, you can get GPX files emailed to you weekly or even more often. From that data, you can print off any cache page you want without being connected to geocaching.com. I for example have weekly queries sent to me showing the nearest 500 geocaches that I have not found. Geocaching could be down for a year and I would still have geocaches to find. You can use either GSAK or the Watcher, a GPX utility to view or print out geocaches from the GPX file generated from the query..

Even if your query results were from last week, you would still be able to review caches that existed up until that point in time.

 

That's all very well...and yes I have last weeks PQs on *my* PC, on GSAK, so assuming I was working from *my* pc all would be fine...but *my* PC is in Ireland where I live...and currently I am visiting my mother in England. Do you see my predicament now? :D

 

Glad its up and running again now, but its too late for us, and we don't have any more free days before I return to Ireland. Never mind :ninja:

Edited by JRM-IRL
Jeremy

+Jeremy

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You probably have a bad gateway that is storing the old page. Try holding down ctrl-shift and refresh the page. If that doesn't work you need to contact your ISP.

Jeremy

+Jeremy

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The database is showing that people have been consistently editing listings, so it doesn't seem to be a server issue, per se.

bobchernow

+bobchernow

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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!

Happy Humphrey

+Happy Humphrey

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Thanks - I am able to operate normally via my wife's PC, so it's obviously my problem.

 

Edit - simply restarting Windows seems to cure the problem for a while...

Edited by Happy Humphrey
albrt

+albrt

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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?

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