h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The daily logout we experience every night around 10 (10:00 until 10:15) is there to stay for a while.

The SSO server has been 'upgraded' last maintenance and the hot update procedure does not work for the time beeing. We will experience these cold updates daily until the hot fix is back. (unknown date)

FUP should have used 22:00 on all 10:00's

There are far too many Capital Letters & Utterly Unknown things & numbers & continental time shift in all this, je non comprendy but anyway.

The birds are very nice by the way.

zdt

Traveller in Time trying to limit to small words only
"Since the recent maintenance 'Friday, 13 April, 2007 Server Downtime...' < F77636?thread=4054931 >, we have a daily SSO down.

You will seem to be Signed-Out but there is no way to Sign-In. You can browse the site but not contribute to any conversation or entry. The 'new posts' are also not updated for what you have read.

On trying to submit you will get the message you have to be Signed-In, on Signing-In you did get a defect page reporting 'the SSO is in maintenance' and you should come back in short time to try again. (?) {I do not have a local copy of the page at hand and missed the entire event the last few days.}"

ou8'd have thought there'd be an announcement about this. Just as well you're here TiT!

i had a prob. like this last night at 0030 page i was on said 'sign on', and all connections failed.
and i had been really signed off, because i had to sign on just now.

birds are calming down a bit here now, but my golfish are courting, so still plenty of animal interest in the garden!

Traveller in Time pondering
"First thought was you had your cookie stored too long, about once a year the cookie for remember me times out .

However 78##### must be an account of around 20th march you are just Researcher for two months. Perhaps you made a mouse-o, or cleared your cookie cache ? "

old cookies,
i dont really know what a cookie is, just that both my browsers have a 'cookie blocker'

yes probably a o

That happened to me on Poets Night, well Doobry morning.. 00.30am

I thought the 10pm SSO thingy had been moved..


lil xx

Traveller in Time on his head
"Your browser does not block all cookies.

If you do not accept cookies you can not post to the site.


That would explain why I have missed several SSO drops .

It was what 'Jim Lynn' requested to the SSO team. "

Traveller in Time watching the clock
"I expected to be kicked off by now.


"

I've had no trouble tonight.. let's see what happens at 00.30am..

it happened again, 0040, here and in mustardland. dont know how long for, i went to bed.

Traveller in Time off to watch some documentaries and
"I try to be asleep around the time, could study the logs one day "

It seems to happen for about 20 mins at a time..

yep board connections go v. slow but get there in the end, appear signed off but didnt have to sign on again after, 0030 to 0050 tonight roughly. i asked in the bull, they say it happens nearly every night.
no big deal, i was just confused. it happened during my moving in party, i was locked out of my own party, thought i had done something badly wrong, went to bed in silly mare.

yes jont says it is indeed the 2200 downtime, they have moved it to 0030-0045 most nights. 'evenin' all..

It's springtime. Blame Eltons gonads.

zdt

Could you Logg, back in AFTER the logg out has happened?

Traveller in Time trying to define SSO "when you _Sign-In_ your name and password are compared with the SSO Database, if there is a match you get a cookie. On every page you request, the server polls your cookie, and will show your User Name on top of the pages, along with reply buttons and other gadgets. The SSO down is merely the SSO server not requesting your cookie, but it is still there on your system. You are not really Signed Out it is just the SSO does not confirm you are signed in. Not unlike viewing this very page in and odd way: < http://212.58.224.116/dna/h2g2/brunel/F124705?thread=4086848 > Your browser does not know of a cookie for the very IP address, only for www.bbc.co.uk. As soon as you follow a link you see you are still signed in. "