IP blockage error?

August 13, 2005 11:01 PM

If my IP were blocked, would the symptoms be something like constantly getting a "Error Executing Database Query ... Server returned: No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?)" error, even though everyone else can connect just fine, until it occurs to me to ssh elsewhere and try connecting? At which point I get through fine?
posted by Harry Morgan to Etiquette/Policy at 11:01 PM (23 comments total)

Also, under links, live preview doesn't work (as one would expect), but one can post immediately without previewing. Is this known? It strikes me as a bug.
posted by Harry Morgan at 11:04 PM on August 13, 2005

try clearing your cookies.
posted by sbutler at 11:04 PM on August 13, 2005

also...
posted by sbutler at 11:07 PM on August 13, 2005

Well, that didn't work.
posted by Harry Morgan at 11:15 PM on August 13, 2005

Really I ought to have been able to predict that it wouldn't work form the fact that I can get through neither with firefox nor with links from my home machine.
posted by Harry Morgan at 11:17 PM on August 13, 2005

ehhh... it's always worth a shot anyway.
posted by sbutler at 11:20 PM on August 13, 2005

Why hasn't Matt deleted the Harry Morgan account?
posted by vacapinta at 11:25 PM on August 13, 2005

In Safari it works just fine, however. Odd.
posted by Harry Morgan at 11:26 PM on August 13, 2005

I don't know, vacapinta. It's not even useful if you need or want to use it to make a MeTa post within the week in which you can't under your normal name, since other people can use it to post noise or contradictory information.
posted by kenko at 11:38 PM on August 13, 2005

does everyone but me know the Harry Morgan password?
posted by dabitch at 11:47 PM on August 13, 2005

Banned people are redirected to plastic.com. Or so I am told.
posted by shepd at 2:15 AM on August 14, 2005

lynx?
posted by If I Had An Anus at 4:36 AM on August 14, 2005

does everyone but me know the Harry Morgan password?
posted by dabitch at 11:47 PM PST on August 13 [!]

I have no idea what the harry morgan password is.
posted by Harry Morgan at 5:35 AM on August 14, 2005 [1 favorite]

i get the same error with firefox, but I can get through using IE.

this is the error message.

" Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]A problem occurred when attempting to contact the server (Server returned: No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?): recv failed). Please ensure that the server parameters passed to the driver are correct and that the server is running. Also ensure that the maximum number of connections have not been exceeded for this server."
posted by afu at 6:09 AM on August 14, 2005

Free Harry Morgan! Free Harry Morgan! Oh wait, he's freed? Ummmm.... Free Hairy Organs! Free Fairy Gorgans!
posted by cyphill at 7:25 AM on August 14, 2005

We are all Harry Morgan (except for the bitches, they are Barry Manilow).
posted by If I Had An Anus at 7:56 AM on August 14, 2005

That's an honest database error I can't explain. No one is banned and there's nothing in the code to throw that error, but something certainly is weird.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:17 AM on August 14, 2005

I get the error too....
posted by FieldingGoodney at 1:31 PM on August 14, 2005

It seems that, after the server change, I forgot all about the entries in /etc/hosts from the last time DNS changed over. Ha ha ha ha ha. I sure am dumb!
posted by kenko at 4:30 PM on August 14, 2005

I got that message too, for a little while, in Safari. I just went and ate a sandwich, and after that everything seemed to work fine. Amazing how many of life's problems can be fixed that way....
posted by spilon at 6:20 PM on August 14, 2005

Doesn't it depend on the sandwich?
posted by wendell at 9:00 PM on August 14, 2005

I've been getting a lot of the "This Document contains no data" pop-up error (something like that).
posted by Witty at 6:22 AM on August 15, 2005

I had been getting the "Error Executing Database Query".

Turns out my HOSTS file had entries for the various MF sections as 69.xx.xx.xxx. They were put in a few months earlier for some reason, due to advice in a MeTa thread (don't remember exactly why). When Matt switched over to the new IP, my requests kept on going to the old IP. Just a heads-up for anyone else.
posted by Gyan at 4:27 PM on August 15, 2005