Nice error message

[techsar]

"upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. retried and the latest reset reason: connection failure"

This has been going on for three days...but only seems to be affecting this site. No particular thread, just random.

[feralferret]

Got that several times last night. Wasn't sure if it was related to the WiFi I was on at the hospital or not. The hospital IT department has a lot of conservative websites blocked in various ways so I was unsure what kind of monkey business might be occurring. That was the the first time I ever saw that particular error message. Am home now. It took a while to catch up on what I did not have access to over the past three days. Lots of bogus reasons shown for the some of the blocks.

[papaof2]

My VPN provider changed last week: Atlas VPN finally figured out that they can't make a fortune serving the general public - including a limited "free" version - so they moved all their customers to NordVPN. Hit a couple of glitches, but nothing major - typical of changing providers for almost anything online. One interesting bit is that this board does not block NordVPN but they blocked Atlas. I suspect that was from a long stream of SPAM that was being posted at one point. NordVPN has an "exception" list for sites that you do NOT want to use the VPN to access, which I don't remember seeing in Atlas. However, Atlas had a VERY simplified user interface and that option may have been buried deeper than I explored... I had renewed the Atlas subscription each time they offered a good deal (twice at 75% off ;-) so I have several years of prepaid service. I went looking for a VPN when the better half had some serious "junk" involvement from an Asian site and the VPN resolved that ;-) My access back into the internet could have been almost anywhere in the world, but I chose the US, just a location several hundred miles from me. One of the last projects I was involved in while a consultant at AT&T was evaluating VPN hardware and I still have a rackmount unit under a bench in the basement: it was being tossed out and I saw possible use of at least the hard drive and possibly using it as a very high end router at home - then we got involved in moving to a new-to-us house and the backlog of maintenance there (previous owner was a mechanical engineer who knew almost zip about home construction/maintenance) put almost everything else on hold as I closed up and sealed up (half a case of 20 year latex caulk plus a lot of backer rod - but it did warm the area near the bay window appreciably in winter). I do remember where that device is, so maybe? Someday?

I've seen a similar error when they're in the process of taking the site down or bringing it back up, but I didn't have any glitches accessing it yesterday. Problem can be on either end or anywhere in the middle - possibly very long "middle" on the internet :-(