So lonely............

[rpgforumsnet]

lol there's only one guy here besides me.

For those of you who absolutely can't bear with the forum down time, you can just bookmark this site with ip address.

I think someone already mention before that the site itself is up and running, it's just the dns server that screwed up.

So next time when the forum is up, do the following:

open up a command prompt, type "ping www.rpgforums.net"
save the ip address x.x.x.x

Replace your bookmark

Hardcore strategy

http://www.rpgforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=30
with
http://x.x.x.x/forumdisplay.php?f=30

Hardcore trading
http://www.rpgforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=30
with
http://x.x.x.x/forumdisplay.php?f=30

HTH

[Frostburns]

RAWR! 10 characters

[Baroni]

Thx for the info rpgforumsnet :worship:

[rpgforumsnet]

np, btw there's a copy & paste mistake

Hardcore trading
http://www.rpgforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=37
with
http://x.x.x.x/forumdisplay.php?f=37

[TheCerberus]

I'm a nub. How do you open up the command prompt?

[Mcsaladshaker]

Start --> run --> command

[det]

Too bad my MS-Dos prompt runs the ping so fast and coses the window before I can remember the number :(

[rpgforumsnet]

I didn't post the exact ip coz I am not sure if it's okay to do that.
But anyway here you go:

C:\>ping www.rpgforums.net

Pinging www.rpgforums.net [216.82.116.243] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.82.116.243: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=44
Reply from 216.82.116.243: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=44
Reply from 216.82.116.243: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=44
Reply from 216.82.116.243: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 216.82.116.243:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 101ms, Maximum = 105ms, Average = 103ms

[ZounceHC]

When I try and save the bookmark with the ip address it says something like: cannot use / \ * etc ect in name. Can you pls explain how to replace the bookmark with the ip address.

Edit: Nvm I just took out the chars that weren't allowed and it seems to work. Thanks for the info!! No more boring work days without the forun.

[MoUsE_WiZ]

Start --> run --> commandcmd.exe always seems to run more smoothly than command.com, or maybe that's just my machine?
Either way winkey>r>cmd>enter is quicker than winkey>r>command>enter =)

Thanks for the tip rpgforumsnet

[turnips]

cool. 10chars

[mestre]

Too bad my MS-Dos prompt runs the ping so fast and coses the window before I can remember the number :(
You must open the command prompt before, so it won't disappear. It's like thge Linux Bash shell. After that you can type the command: "ping <address>", or "tracert <address>"

You can redirect the standard output (from the screen) to a file using ">", like this:
ping www.rpgforums.net >C:\rpgping.txt

[ZounceHC]

lol there's only one guy here besides me.

For those of you who absolutely can't bear with the forum down time, you can just bookmark this site with ip address.

I think someone already mention before that the site itself is up and running, it's just the dns server that screwed up.

So next time when the forum is up, do the following:

open up a command prompt, type "ping www.rpgforums.net"
save the ip address x.x.x.x

Replace your bookmark

Hardcore strategy

http://www.rpgforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=30
with
http://x.x.x.x/forumdisplay.php?f=30

Hardcore trading
http://www.rpgforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=30
with
http://x.x.x.x/forumdisplay.php?f=30

HTH

The forums seem to be have been a bit quiet for the last couple of days so I thought it would be worth it to bump this thread. I started to use the ip address to join the forums and it's been a lot more reliable. I guess if more people find out about this method the busier the forums will be!!