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Prolific poster 3,839 posts LKandO Prolific poster 3,839 posts
LKandO

An odd occurrence began this morning. It is isolated to Google Chrome and MRH. All other sites working normally, all other browsers working normally. Confirmed same result on wife's computer.

Occurs when any post is opened from the Recent Posts page from the New Replies link. Occurs after the topic page loads but before the page automatically scrolls to the new reply. All other MRH site pages working normally. Perhaps unrelated, yesterday was run of Windows update Tuesday. Win 7-64, Chrome 39.

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Alan

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doc-in-ct Regular poster 268 posts
doc-in-ct

Not an issue here

Win 7 64bit, just updated by MS   Chrome is Version 39.0.2171.95 m

Chrome updated itself to  Version 39.0.2171.99  everything seems to be working.

Not sure what "any post is opened from the Recent Posts page from the New Replies link." refers to.

Alan

Alan T.
Co-Owner of the CT River Valley RR - a contemporary HO scale layout of Western & Northern CT, and Western Mass.  In the design stage; Waterbury CT.
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atanisoft Regular poster 156 posts
atanisoft

no issues here either

I would check that you don't have a rogue plugin/extension interacting with the page.

Tested on Chrome 39.0.2171.95 m (64-bit)
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joef MRH Founder 17,525 posts
joef

No problems here, either

Sounds like something on your machine is making you special. Running Version 39.0.2171.95 on the PC and it's working great here.

Joe Fugate​
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LKandO Prolific poster 3,839 posts
LKandO

Except...

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Sounds like something on your machine is making you special.

And I thought it was my charming personality! :-P

Wife's computer also. They share virtually nothing in common except router and ISP. I'm still investigating. Just posted in case others experience the same. Very odd that it is MRH site only. One thing is sure... it is not a running out of memory error this common message implies. Resource monitor verified.

I'll post follow up or delete the post entirely if I determine it is our machines.

Alan

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atanisoft Regular poster 156 posts
atanisoft

may also be the ISP... never

may also be the ISP... never know what they might be doing to "alter" the traffic enroute.. I doubt they would do that to MRH but they have been known to do things to other sites (like Netflix)
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joef MRH Founder 17,525 posts
joef

Also reboot everything

I've noticed strange behavior now and then like this and so I just reboot everything from the wire coming into the house on to the devices themselves. 99.9% of the time, that fixes it. Just had this problem with Chromecast the other day (throwing wierd errors no matter what I tried on any device), and the total end-to-end reboot fixed it.

Joe Fugate​
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LKandO Prolific poster 3,839 posts
LKandO

Publisher and IT Help Desk too!

Thanks Joe. I can't ever recall rebooting router and modem to fix a problem with a single web site. But danged if you weren't right. Now, wife's computer rendering MRH just fine too.

Do ISPs cache web pages for individual users? Does my router know this? How do we know what's real?

No, no, never mind. I don't want to know the answers. Chrome and MRH are getting along fine now and that is all the more I want to think about it. IT stuff, scheesh. And to think I am running my trains with it < facepalm>

The day I see this is the day I hook up a Tyco power pack!

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Alan

All the details:  http://www.LKOrailroad.com        Just the highlights:  MRH blog

When I was a kid... no wait, I still do that. HO, 28x32, double deck, 1969, RailPro
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joef MRH Founder 17,525 posts
joef

Yes, website specific errors can creep into routers and modems

We've had that happen here, where suddenly the MRH website when oddball on us and we've contacted our hosting provider, only to have them tell us it was fine. Then when we've tried it on our mobile device using 4G, it works fine - but it's still going oddball, but only on the MRH site. Our hosting provider guided us to check our router/modem and be darned if they weren't right. Our router/modem went wacko with some corrupted rules just for MRH. Our hosting provider said it can happen if you frequent a site a lot and you just need to reboot your router/modem if the site seems to be working fine when you use other networks to get to it.

Joe Fugate​
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Virginian and Lake Erie Super User 9,244 posts
Virginian and Lake Erie

Those things are mind

Those things are mind numbing. It actually makes no sense for a device to do that. Paper magazines and books don't do that. I never had a television or radio that had to do that. The only things I have ever had that did that were computers and cell phones, does not say much for their reliability does it.

As you can tell I have been brought kicking and screaming into the electronic age, I appreciate what it allows us to do but I am very annoyed at the time we waste trying to make things work that are supposedly working fine.

Just showing sympathy for the rant against the machines.

Rob in Texas

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Bill Brillinger Moderator 4,904 posts
Bill Brillinger

Routers are computers too

Your router has a dns cache and chrome uses a different DNS server set by default than your other software does, so if the cache the router is keeping for the DNS servers chrome is using becomes corrupt, you can't visit websites contained in the corrupt entries. Rebooting the router usually cleans it up nice

Bill Brillinger

Modeling the BNML in HO Scale, Admin for the RailPro User Group, and owner of Precision Design Co.
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LKandO Prolific poster 3,839 posts
LKandO

DNS

Makes perfect sense to me. Learn something new every day. Thanks Bill.

Rob, right with you. Although ironically enough, today I make my living sitting in front of one! Can't seem to remember this DNS server cache ever getting corrupted:

Alan

All the details:  http://www.LKOrailroad.com        Just the highlights:  MRH blog

When I was a kid... no wait, I still do that. HO, 28x32, double deck, 1969, RailPro
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JimBrown Regular poster 113 posts
JimBrown

Can't seem to remember this

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Can't seem to remember this DNS server cache ever getting corrupted: 

I can!

And it stayed corrupted until a new one was issued several months later. 

...jim
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