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Vanillicon url broken on vf.org ?

vrijvlindervrijvlinder MVP
edited October 2014 in Feedback

Just noticed that all Vanillicon generated images are broken. Upon inspection of the source I see the url is wrong

<img src="//wa.vanillicon.com/ac16f791144ea87f67de1f4bab0d335f_50.png" alt="luigi" class="ProfilePhoto ProfilePhotoMedium">

If I replace the wa with www the img works , so something is changing the prefix in a bad way. Any idea @Linc ?

This happens on Safari and also Chrome and Firefox on a Mac.

I should mention that trying to access the file using that url leads to a DNS error not a 404

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  • MasterOneMasterOne ✭✭
    edited October 2014

    Confirmed! It's not browser or Vanilla related, but has to do with something that changed at Vanillicon.

    The pics are served from a whole line of vanillicon.com subdomains, and most are not working any more, the pics show up omitting the subdomain.

    As seen here as well (strangely it's now working again here, but not in our forum, those subdomains are still unreachable, so someone must have patched the Vanillicon plugin here on vf.org?), in our forum pretty much all vanillicon generated avatars are gone and instead the username is shown, resulting in the username displayed twice with offset.

    I have now disable the Vanillicon module in our forum, before I get flooded with PMs about that issue.

  • LincLinc Admin

    Thanks! We're on it.

  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    edited October 2014

    It was a DNS issue (we moved the vanillicon nameservers, as well as the cluster serving the icons), but it has now been resolved. Could take an hour or so to fully propagate, but its all loading correctly for me already.

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  • TimTim Vanilla Staff

    Some vanillicon analytics from right now, for those who may be interested:

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  • vrijvlindervrijvlinder MVP

    Thank goodness, I was starting to think I was crazy....

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  • peregrineperegrine MVP

    @vrijvlinder said:
    Thank goodness, I was starting to think I was crazy....

    How can you be sure the two events are mutually exclusive :wink:

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • peregrineperegrine MVP

    @Tim said:
    It was a DNS issue (we moved the vanillicon nameservers, as well as the cluster serving the icons), but it has now been resolved. Could take an hour or so to fully propagate, but its all loading correctly for me already.

    so is that realated to the issue that every new member who has joined in the past 24 hours or so has an vanillicon that still doesn't work?

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • TimTim Vanilla Staff

    They work.

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  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited October 2014

    it must be my isp has not caught up yet.

    every profile pic after member id 56124 has a broken vanillicon.

    e.g.

    http://vanillaforums.org/profile/56165/tuoni

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  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited October 2014

    this is what I see.

    and here.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    edited October 2014

    Flush your local dns cache and see.

    OS X: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
    Windows: ipconfig /flushdns
    Linux: sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart

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  • lxlelinuxlxlelinux New

    still a no go here

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited October 2014

    for me, I just added the following to my hosts file on home pc as a temporary fix, so my browser wouldn't stall.

    184.106.86.224  vanillicon.com
184.106.86.224  wa.vanillicon.com wb.vanillicon.com wf.vanillicon.com 
184.106.86.224  wc.vanillicon.com wd.vanillicon.com we.vanillicon.com
184.106.86.224  w1.vanillicon.com w2.vanillicon.com w3.vanillicon.com
184.106.86.224  w4.vanillicon.com w5.vanillicon.com w6.vanillicon.com
184.106.86.224  w7.vanillicon.com w8.vanillicon.com w9.vanillicon.com

    will remove in a a few days to see if things change.

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  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited October 2014

    it turns out my isp has a snafu and flip flops. switched the resolv.conf to different name server.

    http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/a/free-public-dns-servers.htm

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • peregrineperegrine MVP
    edited October 2014

    if you were confused like me....

    http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/28162/vanillicon-2-is-coming

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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