This was posted by SirCampalot o­n the DW site, o­n Nov 9, 2004 as follows:

 

"On late Saturday afternoon, the FIREARMS Forums went offline. After speaking with a tech support person at the RECONGAMER hosting facility, I was informed that the server o­n which the forums reside has been infected with a virus and is currently undergoing a thorough system repair and cleanup scan in an attempt to get everything back up and running. While this scan is running, all applications, including the forums, will remain shut off. Recon estimates that the system should come back o­nline by the end of today.

believe it when i see it

-G

That must be one hell of a virus but I believe that someone on the FA was messing with it, screwed things up and doesn't want to admit it. If it were are virus, they'd just have to run a scan, clean the virus and then restore a recent backup. A few hours at most, not 2 weeks.

oh no f-a forums still down :roll: darn.i opened a account there from like about a yr ago,and still can't even reply to posts.keep getting a page that says something like,i need to be added to something by a admin,or have been taken off something by a admin,either way GG :twisted:

the FA forums are up nowso do u believe it G?

Big whoop dee do. :evil: The FA forums are back I still get this message

 

How can this be :? I'm not even a registered user on the forums. Tried asking them why by email but get no answer from them as to why they banned someone who isn't a registered user to post on the FA forms? Go Figure :roll:

 

haha i believe it now... LOL tiger... btw dont you have msn. IM me bud5096@yahoo.com

 

-G

you're welcome

Tiger you got banned in a range of IP addresses that got banned .. I forget why, you were just unlucky and got caught in the range..

I think they are down again.

i think so too. wouldnt work for me-G

Tiger you got banned in a range of IP addresses that got banned .. I forget why, you were just unlucky and got caught in the range..

That is very stupid of them to do that :twisted: . . . a range of IP's banned why is that so necessary? I think they should undo that range IP ban, because that isn't fair for others who were banned for no reason at all. Why do we (those who are banned for no reason) have to suffer for those who broke the rules on the FA forums. They should get rid of this range ban and just ban only the IP's of those who cause trouble. I want this fixed so I can go look at the forums once again.

there is no "range" banned. Email me your IP and let me look it up

Ok. I have sent you a pm, because I don't know what your email is.

Campalot: That's a load of bull when you say there's no IP bans on the FA forums. The entire CDN Shaw network is banned because of me.

I didn't say there are no IP's banned. There are plenty of IP's banned. I said there weren't any IP "ranges" banned. But that wasn't true either - I just looked it up and there is ONE range banned = "64.139" - so any IP that has those two octetts as a prefix is S.O.L..That doesn't apply to Schultz or Tigerhawk though since they have different IP addresses entirely.Tigerhawk - Do me a favor . I assume you are running XP? Open your command prompt (START/RUN/ type "cmd" / ENTER) and in the command prompt type /ipconfig /allI wonder if you have more IP's than just the one you gave me.

so, when my ip changes at home every week between my 2 systems, and I'm pretty sure the 1600 computers in my building all have different IPs and so for all 1602 systems, they're all individually banned somehow? Cool.

I didn't say there are no IP's banned. There are plenty of IP's banned. I said there weren't any IP "ranges" banned. But that wasn't true either - I just looked it up and there is ONE range banned = "64.139" - so any IP that has those two octetts as a prefix is S.O.L..

 

That doesn't apply to Schultz or Tigerhawk though since they have different IP addresses entirely.

 

Tigerhawk -

 

Do me a favor . I assume you are running XP? Open your command prompt (START/RUN/ type "cmd" / ENTER) and in the command prompt type

 

/ipconfig /all

 

I wonder if you have more IP's than just the one you gave me.

I have win98SE on both pc's and I tried what you said but it won't work, I use winipcfg and i only get one IP for each pc. I don't think I have any others if I do I can't seem to find any. This is very weird. :?