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Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Latitude » 2017-05-29, 07:12

I don't know why it takes a slightly longer time to access Pale Moon forum.

(The "Connecting to forum.palemoon.org...." status appears to take longer time.)

I'm in Indonesia and using wireless network for daily internet use.

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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-05-29, 09:01

For you, the forum server is literally on the other side of the planet (Canada). That's a long route, and many things can slow down traffic along the way.
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by gracious1 » 2017-05-30, 02:17

I am in the USA, and I am noticing the same issue as the OP.
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-05-30, 08:54

I am in the EU, and the forum is as fast as you could reasonably expect (connecting to barely takes any time).

Can you both include a traceroute to see if there are common factors?
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by gracious1 » 2017-06-10, 02:10

Output of traceroute

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$ traceroute forum.palemoon.org
traceroute to forum.palemoon.org (144.217.16.169), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  11.062 ms  11.016 ms  11.442 ms
 2  142.254.213.177 (142.254.213.177)  19.112 ms  20.972 ms  20.966 ms
 3  agg39.ithcnycy02h.northeast.rr.com (24.58.240.93)  135.721 ms  135.713 ms  138.108 ms
 4  agg79.esyrnyaw02r.northeast.rr.com (24.58.52.88)  24.917 ms  24.931 ms  27.957 ms
 5  agg27.rochnyei01r.northeast.rr.com (24.58.32.76)  33.502 ms  34.101 ms  39.712 ms
 6  bu-ether45.chcgildt87w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com (107.14.19.106)  44.262 ms  37.973 ms  37.508 ms
 7  0.ae0.pr1.chi10.tbone.rr.com (107.14.17.192)  29.739 ms 0.ae4.pr1.chi10.tbone.rr.com (66.109.1.66)  33.707 ms 0.ae2.pr1.chi10.tbone.rr.com (107.14.17.196)  34.506 ms
 8  chi-b21-link.telia.net (213.248.76.97)  35.474 ms  36.817 ms  36.836 ms
 9  nyk-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.137.54)  46.946 ms nyk-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.125.16)  50.827 ms  50.855 ms
10  nyk-b2-link.telia.net (62.115.137.99)  40.282 ms nyk-b2-link.telia.net (213.155.130.28)  41.050 ms  44.202 ms
11  be100-154.nwk-5-a9.nj.us (192.99.146.38)  44.654 ms  44.715 ms  49.473 ms
12  192.99.146.138 (192.99.146.138)  55.457 ms *  51.384 ms
13  po7.bhs-vac1-a75.qc.ca (192.99.146.147)  50.448 ms  52.437 ms  52.796 ms
14  bhs-vac1-a75-1-firewall.qc.ca (192.99.146.152)  54.036 ms  55.392 ms  55.436 ms
15  bhs-vac1-a75-2-shield.qc.ca (192.99.146.153)  59.098 ms  51.767 ms  50.584 ms
16  bhs-vac1-a75-3.qc.ca (192.99.146.151)  51.644 ms  51.650 ms  53.649 ms
17  * * *
18  be50-7.bhs-3a-a9.qc.ca (198.27.73.94)  216.396 ms be50-5.bhs-3a-a9.qc.ca (198.27.73.92)  219.621 ms be50-5.bhs-3b-a9.qc.ca (198.27.73.96)  59.493 ms
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * * *
28  * * *
29  * * *
30  * * *
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by dark_moon » 2017-06-10, 08:11

My looks different (live in Germany):

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Routenverfolgung zu forum.palemoon.org [144.217.16.169] über maximal 30 Abschnit
te:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  my router [my router IP]
  2     7 ms     8 ms     8 ms  my provider IP
  3    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  f-ee1-i.F.DE.NET.DTAG.DE [217.5.95.186]
  4    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  be100-162.fra-5-a9.de.eu [37.187.232.98]
  5    22 ms    18 ms    18 ms  be100-1169.ams-5-a9.nl.eu [91.121.215.196]
  6    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  po7.sbg-vac1-a75.fr.eu [213.186.32.143]
  7    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  sbg-vac1-a75-1-firewall.fr.eu [178.33.99.143]
  8    17 ms    17 ms    16 ms  sbg-vac1-a75-2-shield.fr.eu [178.33.99.144]
  9    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  sbg-vac1-a75-3.fr.eu [178.33.99.142]
 10     *        *        *     Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
 11   182 ms   182 ms   182 ms  vl1308.bhs-g1-a75.qc.ca [213.251.130.61]
 12   344 ms   331 ms   342 ms  be50-5.bhs-3a-a9.qc.ca [198.27.73.92]
 13   182 ms   182 ms   182 ms  144.217.16.169

Ablaufverfolgung beendet.

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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-06-10, 13:13

gracious1 your traceroute is certainly not looking healthy, but it's somewhere in Canada where it goes awry. Not really much you or I can do about.
Latitude, can you please post a trace too if you are still having issues, see if there are common problems on the route for you both? If so I can poke the provider and ask about it.
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Latitude » 2017-06-10, 17:32

Accessing Pale Moon forum without any hassles through Pale Moon browser.

But, in command prompt, "tracert forum.palemoon.org" only gets RTOs, sequentially.

I don't know why.

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C:\Users\USER>tracert forum.palemoon.org

Tracing route to forum.palemoon.org [144.217.16.169]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12  ^C
C:\Users\USER>
Living in a third-world country maybe the culprit. :lol:

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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Latitude » 2017-06-10, 17:38

My ISP's name is "3". (http://tri.co.id/)

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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-06-12, 10:31

Latitude, you're probably blocking pings in your firewall. If so, you may also be blocking other ICMP protocols or TCP status packages which are needed for smooth operation of networking.

You say you have no issues connecting now but you opened this thread yourself... so, which is it?
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Latitude » 2017-06-12, 10:50

Moonchild wrote:Latitude, you're probably blocking pings in your firewall. If so, you may also be blocking other ICMP protocols or TCP status packages which are needed for smooth operation of networking.

You say you have no issues connecting now but you opened this thread yourself... so, which is it?
I mean that I eventually could access Pale Moon forum, although sometimes, the quite long "Connecting...." status still happens.

I have HostsMan installed in my computer and my hosts file is 12+ MB with DNS Client service set to disabled.
Maybe the hosts file is the culprit?

Firewall: standard Windows firewall.

But, my internet connection is censored by the government in ISP level and couldn't use alternate DNS servers (like Google DNS) because they are blacklisted too.
The software the gov't uses is squid.
(But, I could bypass it by using proxies, the "free VPN" add-ons :) ).

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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Lucio Chiappetti » 2017-06-12, 11:17

For me (Italy) the connection to the PM forum itself is as fast as ever, but the tab and status bar remains in "connecting" status (to pagead2.googlesyndication.com) for a longer time after the page has displayed OK. I assumed this was due to the fact I recenlty disabled the adblocker for the PM site (it seemed to start occurring since then)

I noted significant slowdowns occasionally (in the last weeks) to another forum (server in Switzerland) also served by PhpBB. It was referred by the mantainers to saturation of database accesses on the server (hosting also other forums) possibly due to DDoS attacks. In a few cases there were also timeout messages.
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by adesh » 2017-06-12, 12:34

Lucio Chiappetti wrote:but the tab and status bar remains in "connecting" status (to pagead2.googlesyndication.com) for a longer time after the page has displayed OK
I'm also facing the very same issue even though I have blocked that domain using my hosts file on my Linux system. The page loads completely and then after one second the "connecting" message appears in status bar and rotating circle is shown again in tab title bar to indicate page loading. This loading activity happens for almost 10 seconds.

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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-06-12, 16:12

The bottom ad is loaded asynchronously. The page itself will be done before those connections are fired. If you for whatever reason block connections to (some of the host of) the ad networks serving the ads, it will keep the text in the status bar until it times out. If you prefer not to see details of background connections (or if they confuse you), you can switch those off in the status bar options.
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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by adesh » 2017-06-12, 16:22

Moonchild wrote:it will keep the text in the status bar until it times out.
Need some clarification regarding that - since domain is pointing to 127.0.0.1, shouldn't the request time-out immediately. When I fire the exact request in my terminal, response is immediate, i.e connection refused.

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curl: (7) Failed to connect to pagead2.googlesyndication.com port 443: Connection refused

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Re: Longer "Connecting...." while accessing Pale Moon forum.

Unread post by Octopuss » 2017-06-14, 20:17

The forum is always noticeably slower for me if I don't block ads. Solution: I donated another €10 and kept Adblock active.

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