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126board Access?

@gerryvz,
I must state that I would believe that 99.999% of our members appreciate all that you do for us, all at your own cost.

If some folks get impatient they can always move to another forum.
 
I was wondering, is the 126board not available, or is just my computer's fault? I am not being impatient nor pushy, I am just trying to figure out if is only me having problems lately. Thanks!
 
Been trying to log in on and off for a while with no success
I dont even get the title page anymore when I google it
Is it something at my end ? I am UK based if that makes a differance
Thanks for any advice I used to enjoy the board and contributers
Graeme Johnson
 
I think the focus on safety and security has been this board, and GVZ (admin) has had to allocate resources and prioritize efforts where necessary with his work/life schedule. Just a view from the cheap seats :D

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126board is far along into the process of being fixed. Everything should be up and running by 8PM ET on Friday, Feb. 28.

Basically we are starting from a clean slate onto a new server, and bringing the forum software and database over to the new server. No data, images or other information will be or has been lost -- basically that forum will just pick up from where it left off last fall.

The 126board will be running the very latest version of XenForo, version 2.3 (and will soon upgrade to version 2.4 when it becomes available). This will be a nice preview for this forum, which will be also undergoing a complete revamp of its technical infrastructure over the next few weeks.

This forum has been up since February 2019, so it's been now over six years since it was implemented (actually six years ago YESTERDAY, though it didn't go "live" until March 9th, 2019).
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There are a lot of cobwebs that have built up over the years, from a technical perspective. We'll do a thorough spring cleaning behind the scenes, in addition to updating all of the software to the very latest versions.

XenForo 2.4 (this forum is running on XF 2.2) is about to go into "beta" status, but it's likely that this forum will be updated to 2.3 first.
 
Thank you for your effort and dedication in this matter, @gerryvz! I know some time ago you said you are doing it all alone, without any help. I felt bad for not helping, but believe me, when it comes to my help in setting software, you wish I don't help, or you'd have to work more, to undo what I did.
At any rate, I do understand that you have other priorities in your life, but I just wanted to say Thank You! Just like others, I look forward with great interest to the reopening of the forum.
Roy
 
Due to some short-term priorities (my wife is battling breast cancer, and has had two surgical procedures in the past two weeks, including Thursday of this past week), the re-opening of 126board has been postponed by 7-10 days from my earlier estimate.

My sincere apologies, but I have to take care of my wife right now.
 
Due to some short-term priorities (my wife is battling breast cancer, and has had two surgical procedures in the past two weeks, including Thursday of this past week), the re-opening of 126board has been postponed by 7-10 days from my earlier estimate.

My sincere apologies, but I have to take care of my wife right now.
We all wish your wife a speedy recovery to full health, Gerry!
 
I wanted to give folks a quick update on the 126board.

The server is running and is "up," although there are a few remaining issues relating to the site's SSL certificate that are being taken care of.

No data has been lost, and when everything is resolved, things will pick up from where they left off last fall in terms of the site operation.

Here is a screen shot that I just now took, of myself logged into the site.

It is possible for you to log into the site if you want to, but you will find there is a "SSL error" that you will need to click through, if you want to access the site. But if you really want to, you certainly can.

We'll get the problems fixed for good in the near future, and the site should be good to go.

Thanks for your patience. A lot of moving parts.

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I'm getting an error at the moment... might be down again for The Emperor working his magics, or maybe some DNS updates haven't propagated yet?

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Ongoing work tonight.

I am on my home network on my phone and am able to access 126board on my phone via either cell network data, or my Verizon FIOS home network.

Anybody noticing anything different?
 

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CONFIRMING that 126board.com **IS** working now from all computers, all browsers and all networks in my house. Multiple Mac, PC,phones as well as several different browsers.

Should be up and running for everyone. Dumping your browser cache may help. Also unplugging your home wireless router for 30-60 seconds to dump its stored DNS cache.

I expect to see everyone back on 126board again now. It took A LOT of work to bring that forum back up.
 
I was able to access the site earlier on my mobile. I will be joining up soon as I have a couple of items to sell. Thanks very much for your efforts.
 
I was able to finally fully access the forum on all computers, browsers and platforms late last night after some tweaks and changes were made and propagated through the internet.

It also helped to dump the caches of my browsers and home wireless router to speed up this process.

There is more testing happening today, but from everything I can see diagnostically the site is fully up and working.

I have an outside expert on all of this taking a look today.
 
I had a computer expert chasing all caches in my laptop (including any hidden ones), clean registries and cookies, but to no avail. Everything was pointing to something else, external to my laptop.

So, with no other options left, I reached out to our department expert. He was kind to look into it, and after investigating, he explained me what he thinks the problem is. Because I am not computer literate, I asked him to write it to me. I hope his message makes sense for you and offers the explanation:

Roy,

Using the SSLLabs website, I first checked to see what the certificate(s) were on the website:


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Here it shows 2. One is on an IPv4 Address (bottom) and the other is on an IPv6 Address (top). The IPv4 is good, and the other has an issue with the DNS name mismatching the certificate CN.

I then took a look at the DNS resolution from my laptop. Here you can see the IPv4 (45.33.78.185) and IPv6 (2600:3c03::f03c:94ff:feb6:f300) addresses that match the servers. I used Google’s DNS Servers (8.8.8.8) in this example but got consistent reports from our internal / default server.

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I also saw the same behavior as you with our work network resolving to the IPv4 and the good certificate and a mobile carrier resolving IPv6 and a bad certificate. I believe the difference is the default use of an IPv4 vs IPv6 address on the different networks. Both should work, but it appears that there is a misconfiguration on the IPv6 side of the website. I found a thread of a similar issue linked below:

IPv6 Certificate not valid for domain name , IPv4 is correct

Thanks
Roy,

Some further tests (even using the site that your expert used) are showing that the site is fully working now.

I was having similar issues as you last night, in terms of the site working on a cellular connection and over my employer’s VPN, but not on my home network using home, work computers and phone.

That was all resolved later last night and all is now working 100% on all platforms computers and networks. IMG_2640.png

I will continue testing, but here are the results from the testing site your colleague used.


I just re-ran the same test about 2 minutes ago and it continues to check out 100%.
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Confirming that the forum is now running 100% on multiple browsers, multiple connections, multiple devices.

Three different home computers + phone on either my home network or VPN or cellular only connection.

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Forgive me, as I've never accessed the 126 Board previously, but do I need to set up a new profile on there, or do my log in details from 500eBoard work over there too?
 
Forgive me, as I've never accessed the 126 Board previously, but do I need to set up a new profile on there, or do my log in details from 500eBoard work over there too?
Your password and login ID from here should work just fine there, unless you joined this site after the 126board was created. If that is the case, then you will need to create a new login ID and password for that site.
 
Your password and login ID from here should work just fine there, unless you joined this site after the 126board was created. If that is the case, then you will need to create a new login ID and password for that site.
Understood, thank you!
 
Your password and login ID from here should work just fine there, unless you joined this site after the 126board was created. If that is the case, then you will need to create a new login ID and password for that site.
When was this? I'm guessing I'm out of luck here as a newbie :)
 
When was this? I'm guessing I'm out of luck here as a newbie :)

September, 2021.

Although, we never implemented the $10 annual fee. Perhaps implementing a $100-per-user annual fee for this forum and keeping 126board free would be a better option. This forum is costing north of $125 + many hours a month to keep running.
 

September, 2021.

Although, we never implemented the $10 annual fee. Perhaps implementing a $100-per-user annual fee for this forum and keeping 126board free would be a better option. This forum is costing north of $125 + many hours a month to keep running.
You could levy a fee in line with your USA property tax but based on the perceived value of the owner's E500E - other charlatan vehicle owners would obviously be exempt on taste or affordability grounds:nobmw:
 
You could levy a fee in line with your USA property tax but based on the perceived value of the owner's E500E - other charlatan vehicle owners would obviously be exempt on taste or affordability grounds:nobmw:
For UK and EU members, of course, the fee would be appropriately tariffed......
 
Hello, I have registered over on the 126 Board but haven't received the confirmation email despite hitting the resend link:

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Can anyone advise?

Thanks!!
 
Hello, I have registered over on the 126 Board but haven't received the confirmation email despite hitting the resend link:

Can anyone advise?

Thanks!!
I can see your registration attempt - check your spam folder:

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