[piyushsingh]

photobucket isnt working for me. The images in signatures are gone. I see images in other users signatures are also not coming up. I cant even access photobucket.com
Did the site crash or what ??
Anyone has any ideas or info.

[mphenterprises]

Hi Piyush. It worked fine for me....here is a screen shot:











Try the usual...clear cache, cookies, etc.

[lilxkid24]

same with me it works fine.

[techie4fun]

Not sure. I was able to log in successfully so I would suppose that there is no problem on my end.

[piyushsingh]

see a screen of lilxkid's sig .The images in his signature are also missing.



already did all the cleaning up, will see how it goes on the other pc.
btw - are the images in signatures visible to both of you ?

[smax013]

piyushsingh said:

see a screen of lilxkid's sig .The images in his signature are also missing.



already did all the cleaning up, will see how it goes on the other pc.
btw - are the images in signatures visible to both of you ?

Could just be that your path to the Photobucket site is some how broken...so problem upstream in your Internet connection service that is disrupting that connection to that one site. Maybe some filter or something that your ISP or one of the networks you are going through.



Might self correct. If not, then might try calling your ISP.

[piyushsingh]

Its the same case on the other pc also.
Did a bit of searching.Found this.
http://www.flickr.co...und/2588630844/
and http://fallz-shoutwi...ket-hacked.html

Looks like they were hacked or an error in their server.
I even flushed my dns cache and still cant get in. :-( :-(

[techie4fun]

Interesting.

[piyushsingh]

They say it happened yesterday afternoon. I was logged in at the same time. I hope my account stays fine there. Even tried by using ip address rather than site name, still not working.The photobucket forums also not opening up.
I am not able to understand why even after clearing the dns cache, its not working . Do the ISPs also have to do something in clearing theirs ?
Can someone have a look at the photobucket forums(not opening for me) and tell something ?

I can only wait now.

[Adama]

piyushsingh said:

Its the same case on the other pc also.
Did a bit of searching.Found this.
www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/2588630844/
and [http://fallz-shoutwire.blogspot.com/2008/06/photobucket-hacked.html]

Looks like they were hacked or an error in their server.
I even flushed my dns cache and still cant get in. :-( :-(

Hi Piyush,

I checked your two links above. On the bottom one, there was a link to PB and it showed up fine for me, here's a Snip of it:





And this is a tiny Snip of my account there:



So it looks like whatever was happening it's been fixed now.

[smax013]

piyushsingh said:

Its the same case on the other pc also.
Did a bit of searching.Found this.
www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/2588630844/
and [http://fallz-shoutwire.blogspot.com/2008/06/photobucket-hacked.html]

Looks like they were hacked or an error in their server.
I even flushed my dns cache and still cant get in. :-( :-(

Did not mean that it might a problem with YOUR computer...but maybe with some computer/server between you and Photobucket's server. You Internet connection is like a bunch of roads, bridges, etc. If there is store that is across a river from where you live and there is only one bridge to cross the river, you would not be able to get to the store. But, the people on the other side of the river still can. My point was maybe there is a "bridge" down somewhere on your route to the Photobucket site, but my path is different and thus does not need to use that "bridge" and still works. If so, then there ain't much you can do.

[techie4fun]

This was the only link I was able to bring up in their forums regarding the issues.



http://forums.photob...ead.php?t=27024

[piyushsingh]

techie4fun said:

This was the only link I was able to bring up in their forums regarding the issues.


http://forums.photob...ead.php?t=27024

hey techie, i cant open that link. Otherwise i would have searched myself. thanx for the heads up.
I m with smax on this issue, there isnt much that i can do at this time.

[techie4fun]

I agree.

[smax013]

techie4fun said:

This was the only link I was able to bring up in their forums regarding the issues.


forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=27024

From that link:



"On Tuesday afternoon, some users that typed in the Photobucket.com URL were temporarily redirected to an incorrect page due to an error in our DNS hosting services. The error was fixed within an hour of its discovery, but due to the nature of the problem, some users will not have access to Photobucket for a few hours as the fix rolls out. It is important to note that only a portion of Photobucket users encountered the problem and that no Photobucket content, password information or other personal information was affected by the redirect."



Seems to explain it. If you are still having problems now, then it might be something else (they imply hours not days).

[lilxkid24]

weird i was able to see it after i posted this morning, i guess it hadn't affected me

[piyushsingh]

[quote name='smax013']

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techie4fun said:

> This was the only link I was able to bring up in their forums regarding the issues.
>
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> forums.photobucket.com/showthread.php?t=27024
>

From that link:


"On Tuesday afternoon, some users that typed in the Photobucket.com URL were temporarily redirected to an incorrect page due to an error in our DNS hosting services. The error was fixed within an hour of its discovery, but due to the nature of the problem, some users will not have access to Photobucket for a few hours as the fix rolls out. It is important to note that only a portion of Photobucket users encountered the problem and that no Photobucket content, password information or other personal information was affected by the redirect."


Seems to explain it. If you are still having problems now, then it might be something else (they imply hours not days).

thanx for decoding that link. I was waiting for someone to do that.
btw - problem still exists. I ll try calling the ISP.

[smax013]

piyushsingh said:

thanx for decoding that link. I was waiting for someone to do that.
btw - problem still exists. I ll try calling the ISP.

Probably the only proactive thing to do...other than calling the ISP, I suspect it is purely a "wait and see" game. :(

[piyushsingh]

smax013 said:

Probably the only proactive thing to do...other than calling the ISP, I suspect it is purely a "wait and see" game. :(

I did some more search. The PB team mentioned somewhere that a max. of 72 hrs is possible for the isp dns cache to expire. Definitely turns out to be a wait and see game. I really dont like waiting but i have no choice.

[piyushsingh]

Wait and see does well. Photobucket is up again. I can see all the sigs here now.

Thanx guys for all the support. :)