I made a video yesterday and went to post it here and got the warning 'Server
not found'. I'm in the US (Joplin Missouri for sure) and was wandering was the
problem POV's server or mine!

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On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:24:56 EDT, Leroy wrote:

> I made a video yesterday and went to post it here and got the warning
> 'Server not found'. I'm in the US (Joplin Missouri for sure) and was
> wandering was the problem POV's server or mine!

It seems you were able to post this message from the web interface....So 
it's unclear where you were trying to post from (I thought I might try to 
duplicate the issue myself).

I see a binary post in povray.binaries.animations dated today, so it seems 
to be OK.  But as the news server stores both text and binary files, it 
shouldn't have kicked an error when trying to upload if text can be 
posted.



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:24:56 EDT, Leroy wrote:
>
> > I made a video yesterday and went to post it here and got the warning
> > 'Server not found'. I'm in the US (Joplin Missouri for sure) and was
> > wandering was the problem POV's server or mine!
>
> It seems you were able to post this message from the web interface....So
> it's unclear where you were trying to post from (I thought I might try to
> duplicate the issue myself).
>
> I see a binary post in povray.binaries.animations dated today, so it seems
> to be OK.  But as the news server stores both text and binary files, it
> shouldn't have kicked an error when trying to upload if text can be
> posted.
>
>
>
> --
> "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

This site wouldn't even load!? Several other sites wouldn't load either. As I
don't have any idea who services who, I didn't know if a major server when down
or not. It was gone only for a day, But my imagination may have work over time
on what could have gone wrong. Maybe AI has decided that half the work doesn't
need POV. Maybe the Russians nuked something, or the middle east targeted POV.
But I feel much better now!

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"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> ... got the warning
> > > 'Server not found'.

> This site wouldn't even load!?

I got the same thing - it was for maybe 2-3h.
I posted something in the morning, and then went to post something or look
something up, and there was no povray.org

Assuming it was some sort of tech issue that was part of the server move.

- BE

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On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:16:06 EDT, Leroy wrote:

> This site wouldn't even load!? Several other sites wouldn't load either.
> As I don't have any idea who services who, I didn't know if a major
> server when down or not. It was gone only for a day, But my imagination
> may have work over time on what could have gone wrong. Maybe AI has
> decided that half the work doesn't need POV. Maybe the Russians nuked
> something, or the middle east targeted POV. But I feel much better now!

Could have been a temporary outage, but seems OK now. :)



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:24:56 EDT, Leroy wrote:
> >
> > > I made a video yesterday and went to post it here and got the warning
> > > 'Server not found'. I'm in the US (Joplin Missouri for sure) and was
> > > wandering was the problem POV's server or mine!
> >
> > It seems you were able to post this message from the web interface....So
> > it's unclear where you were trying to post from (I thought I might try to
> > duplicate the issue myself).
> >
> > I see a binary post in povray.binaries.animations dated today, so it seems
> > to be OK.  But as the news server stores both text and binary files, it
> > shouldn't have kicked an error when trying to upload if text can be
> > posted.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> > besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
>
> This site wouldn't even load!? Several other sites wouldn't load either. As I
> don't have any idea who services who, I didn't know if a major server when down
> or not. It was gone only for a day, But my imagination may have work over time
> on what could have gone wrong. Maybe AI has decided that half the work doesn't
> need POV. Maybe the Russians nuked something, or the middle east targeted POV.
> But I feel much better now!

That was few days ago! I lost POV all day sunday. I keep getting 'Time Out'
messages. Usually when I load POV it's on the screen before you know it. But
yesterday it took a few minutes before the error happen. I have Firefox and
there's a box at the bottom of the screen that show the website address that is
trying to load. Pov address was there most of the time then something popped up
like 'trying to load data from It.. .com'. It didn't stay on long enough for me
to copy it down. So I thinking that the trouble is some where between here and
there. At least I'm here today:)

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"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:24:56 EDT, Leroy wrote:
> > >
> > > > I made a video yesterday and went to post it here and got the warning
> > > > 'Server not found'. I'm in the US (Joplin Missouri for sure) and was
> > > > wandering was the problem POV's server or mine!
> > >
> > > It seems you were able to post this message from the web interface....So
> > > it's unclear where you were trying to post from (I thought I might try to
> > > duplicate the issue myself).
> > >
> > > I see a binary post in povray.binaries.animations dated today, so it seems
> > > to be OK.  But as the news server stores both text and binary files, it
> > > shouldn't have kicked an error when trying to upload if text can be
> > > posted.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
> > > besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
> >
> > This site wouldn't even load!? Several other sites wouldn't load either. As I
> > don't have any idea who services who, I didn't know if a major server when down
> > or not. It was gone only for a day, But my imagination may have work over time
> > on what could have gone wrong. Maybe AI has decided that half the work doesn't
> > need POV. Maybe the Russians nuked something, or the middle east targeted POV.
> > But I feel much better now!
>
> That was few days ago! I lost POV all day sunday. I keep getting 'Time Out'
> messages. Usually when I load POV it's on the screen before you know it. But
> yesterday it took a few minutes before the error happen. I have Firefox and
> there's a box at the bottom of the screen that show the website address that is
> trying to load. Pov address was there most of the time then something popped up
> like 'trying to load data from It.. .com'. It didn't stay on long enough for me
> to copy it down. So I thinking that the trouble is some where between here and
> there. At least I'm here today:)

From central Indiana and haven't been able to login since Thursday.  I tried
Firefox, Google, Edge on my pc and Safari on my phone.  Even a ping would time
out.  Didn't have any problem with other sites.

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"Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:

> From central Indiana and haven't been able to login since Thursday.  I tried
> Firefox, Google, Edge on my pc and Safari on my phone.  Even a ping would time
> out.  Didn't have any problem with other sites.

I'm curious:

Have you tried accessing the site using a web proxy service, or a newsreader
like Thunderbird?

Also, how are you accessing it just now?

- BE

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"Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>
> From central Indiana and haven't been able to login since Thursday.  I tried
> Firefox, Google, Edge on my pc and Safari on my phone.  Even a ping would time
> out.  Didn't have any problem with other sites.

I'm back(3/17/26) 2 days in a row! :) I think it was relay router(or what ever
the f??? you call it) See Chris Cason's post for more about the matter.

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Clarence1898" <dle### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>
> > From central Indiana and haven't been able to login since Thursday.  I tried
> > Firefox, Google, Edge on my pc and Safari on my phone.  Even a ping would time
> > out.  Didn't have any problem with other sites.
>
> I'm curious:
>
> Have you tried accessing the site using a web proxy service, or a newsreader
> like Thunderbird?
>
> Also, how are you accessing it just now?
>
> - BE

Earlier today I was able to access from my phone, so when I got home I tried
from my pc and was successful.  I have no idea what happened but from Thursday
through Monday it timed out.

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