# RubyForge down **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 27, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912 "2006-10-27T22:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/1 "2006-10-27T22:23:37Z")
Hi, I can’t access the RubyForge website… Any idea when the site will be back online? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/2 "2006-10-27T22:32:33Z")
Jean-francois Perusse wrote: > Hi, > > I can’t access the RubyForge website… > > Any idea when the site will be back online? > > Thanks! It works for me. -Justin ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/3 "2006-10-27T22:36:44Z")
Justin C. wrote: > Jean-francois Perusse wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I can’t access the RubyForge website… > > > > Any idea when the site will be back online? > > > > Thanks! > > It works for me. > > -Justin Strange… I have no problems with other sites. RubyForge hangs Firefox for a few seconds then I get the “can’t find the server” error. Gems doesn’t work either (getaddrinfo error), and I can’t ping [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) :(. I’m trying from Montreal, Canada… ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/4 "2006-10-27T22:42:34Z")
Jean-Francois Perusse wrote: > > > Thanks! > > > doesn’t work either (getaddrinfo error), and I can’t ping [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) > > > :(. > > I’m trying from Montreal, Canada… It seems a little slow, but I can ping it and view it. Are you using [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) or .com? I’m in California, US. Maybe a DNS issue? -Justin ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/5 "2006-10-27T22:45:40Z")
Justin C. wrote: > Jean-Francois Perusse wrote: > > > > > Thanks! > > > > doesn’t work either (getaddrinfo error), and I can’t ping [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) > > > > :(. > > > > I’m trying from Montreal, Canada… > > It seems a little slow, but I can ping it and view it. Are you using > [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) or .com? I’m in California, US. Maybe a DNS issue? > > -Justin I was trying [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org). I found a temporary solution to my problem: using a free http proxy :). Thanks, JF ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/6 "2006-10-27T22:48:35Z")
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Jean-Francois Perusse wrote: > Strange… I have no problems with other sites. RubyForge hangs Firefox > for a few seconds then I get the “can’t find the server” error. Gems > doesn’t work either (getaddrinfo error), and I can’t ping [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) > :(. > > I’m trying from Montreal, Canada… your dns is hosed. -a ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/7 "2006-10-27T23:06:37Z")
On Oct 27, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Daniel B. wrote: > > > I’m trying from Montreal, Canada… > > > > your dns is hosed. > > Undoubtedly caused by someone not paying attention to Quebec’s locale > and uppercasing an accented character when they shouldn’t have! We love you Tim. Really we do. James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/8 "2006-10-27T23:00:36Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Jean-Francois Perusse wrote: > > > Strange… I have no problems with other sites. RubyForge hangs Firefox > > for a few seconds then I get the “can’t find the server” error. Gems > > doesn’t work either (getaddrinfo error), and I can’t ping [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org) > > :(. > > > > I’m trying from Montreal, Canada… > > your dns is hosed. Undoubtedly caused by someone not paying attention to Quebec’s locale and uppercasing an accented character when they shouldn’t have! 😛 - Dan ---
**Author:** ![jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jfperusse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jfperusse)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyforge-down/73912/9 "2006-10-27T23:09:05Z")
James G. wrote: > On Oct 27, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Daniel B. wrote: > > > > > I’m trying from Montreal, Canada… > > > > > > your dns is hosed. > > > > Undoubtedly caused by someone not paying attention to Quebec’s locale > > and uppercasing an accented character when they shouldn’t have! > > We love you Tim. Really we do. > > James Edward G. II “Hé hÃ?!” 😉