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When I try to submit a new site, I get the standard server error page - nothing to indicate that the submission was successful.
Browsing DMOZ in general is either slow or unsuccessful. I can't view the profile of any editor, and sometimes the DMOZ logo doesn't show up in the corner (it comes in as a broken image).
Now, I'm assuming that firewall issues would completely block access or at least restrict access in a repetitive way - not a random way like this. I've tried this whole process from two different locations, and both have the same result. I can't even ping DMOZ from either location.
One ping, given a few seconds, gave me a message about a packet being filtered (I have no firewall or anything up at this point).
Is it just the heavy load or something? It seems like something else - certain errors are consistent and can be repeated easily.
- Jonathan
Editors are being offered a different URL (on editor panel) if the server is slow, this leads me to think they know of a problem, perhaps they havent been paying their bandwidth ;o)
Dazz
[webmasterworld.com...]
New servers are coming on line...We now have the European public-side mirror, the separate (internal) forum server, and staff is working on both new servers and new ways of distributing the work among more servers. (The ODP was never envisioned as a mass-server farm like, say, Google: there is a core of editing functionality that really needs to be serialized -- which in the current software means on one system. So adding servers isn't going to be a matter of just depositing cache in the memory bank.)
