A story worth mentioning...
Some days ago I turned on a notebook that I seldom use, it was well beyond the moment when the switch over to the new NikonGear '23 server was performed.
The NB was in Hybernate mode, that is apps and browser pages were frozen and resumed exactly as I had left them.
There was -as usual- an open NikonGear page (btw, several pages pointing to different threads)
At the bottom page the usual list of Recent Posts, and connected users
Most Recent Post: October 31st !!!
Connected users: 1 (mxbianco) HOW STRANGE...
I remembered the instructions given by Birna to logout, close the NG Page, repopen it and then login again. Done.
On the announcements page there stood a menacing announcement by Bjørn Rørslett (revived for the occasion)
PLEASE ALL NG USERS LOG OUT IMMEDIATELY
I was still stuck on the old server.
Very strange feeling, I felt like Robinson Crusoe on a lonely island, away from usual friends, time seemed frozen on Oct. 31, 2023 !
All my other devices had done the switch as expected, but there was a difference...
On the stuck NB the title was different: Welcome to the NG Server instead of Welcome to the New NG '23 Server
Then I started to remember something...
Three-four years back there had been access problems to the NG server, the IP address took minutes to be resolved by DNS servers, and the page had timeout issues and so on.
Problem solved by making the IP address sticky (adding a line to the hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc) on this NB only
Pinging nikongear.net on all my devices I was getting this IP: 213.165.231.87 and a normal ping response (new server active and kicking)
Pinging nikongear.net on my stuck NB I was getting another IP: 162.241.xxx.xx and a normal ping response (old server still active)
Removed the line from the hosts file
Logged out, closed the page, relaunched the NG page, Login: Welcome to the New NG '23 Server ! YAY! I was back home !
For a couple of hours, a very strange feeling
Ciao from Massimo
