NO images from mobileread.com being displayed?

[ryran]

First noticed about 8 hours ago. Multiple web-browsers tried. Am I the only one?

[montsnmags]

When you say "NO images", can you elaborate and give an example of what you mean (eg. link to a thread). Everything seems fine to me from where I am, but perhaps I'm looking at the wrong thing.

Cheers,
Marc

[kacir]

I have the same problem.
When I load the site on multiple browsers / computers / providers (home and at work) the site looks "broken". It means only the main html file for page is displayed. Images are missing, formatting is missing (due to missing CSS file I guess). The site is almost unusable.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by kacir

I have the same problem.
When I load the site on multiple browsers / computers / providers (home and at work) the site looks "broken". It means only the main html file for page is displayed. Images are missing, formatting is missing (due to missing CSS file I guess). The site is almost unusable.

Weird. I've had no problems at all. [scratches head]

I'll report this thread to the Star Chamber, see if someone can rip a panel off the wall and have a look for any rats in the wiring. If anyone comes up with any more info (eg. It's not just MobileRead, or there's some obvious pattern), post it here.

Cheers,
Marc
Moderator

[Ron.]

I had it too, it seems to be fine now though...

[ryran]

After taking a few hour nap, all appears well again from my end.

[kacir]

It worked for me for a while, now I am again missing some components of the page layout.
Also page refresh is extremely slow.

I have no problem with other websites.

[jgaiser]

It appears to me that 4dots.com (graphics server for this site) disappeared from the internet for a while last night. I too was having problems, forced a complete reload of the site, and noticed that there seemed to be problems contacting 4dots.com. When I tried to "ping" 4dots, I received an "Address Not Found" error. Everything seems to be working fine this morning.

[kacir]

The problem still persists. I am browsing from different PC, different OS, different browser, different Internet Service Provider and the site is still without pictures, formatting, everything. Almost unusable.

I can't ping server that is supposed to serve images and CSS files:
kacir@katya ~ $ ping 4dots.com
ping: unknown host 4dots.com
k@katya ~ $ ping cdn0.4dots.com
ping: unknown host cdn0.4dots.com
k@katya ~ $

Here is a bit of page source

<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
<style type="text/css">@import url("http://cdn1.4dots.com/c/vbulletin_css/style-61e601e4-00017.css");</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cdn1.4dots.com/c/vbulletin_important.css?v=385" />


<!-- Editor Styles -->
<style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_editor_css_dynamic">
<!--
@import url("http://cdn1.4dots.com/c/vbulletin_editor.css?v=385");

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
	<td id="vB_Editor_001" class="vBulletin_editor" width="100%">
		<div id="vB_Editor_001_controls" class="controlbar">
			<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
			<tr>
				<td><div class="imagebutton" id="vB_Editor_001_cmd_removeformat"><img src="https://www2.mobileread.com/i/mr/editor/removeformat.gif" width="21" height="20" alt="Remove Text Formatting" /></div></td>
			
				<td><img src="https://www2.mobileread.com/i/mr/editor/separator.gif" width="6" height="20" alt="" /></td>
			
			
				<td><div class="imagebutton" id="vB_Editor_001_popup_fontname" title="Fonts">
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
					<tr>
						<td class="popup_feedback"><div id="vB_Editor_001_font_out" style="width:91px">&nbsp;</div></td>
						<td class="popup_pickbutton"><img src="https://www2.mobileread.com/i/mr/editor/menupop.gif" width="11" height="16" alt="" /></td>

[dreams]

I don't seem to be having this problem. Many thanks for the additional information that will help as we continue to look into the issue.

[Nyssa]

I experienced the same thing, but on my phone, a few times through out the day. Basically they were just a blank box with a blue question mark.

[ryran]

It hasn't gone back to being broken for me. Perhaps there were some DNS changes that have been slowly propagating through the web...