quagga
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fr0st said:quagga said:The server is occasionally showing offline for me and several others in mid-west United States. Should this happen for anyone else, try clearing your DNS cache (it worked for me). You can do this by opening your Windows command prompt and typing ipconfig /flushdns.
Nothing was changed with DNS, all of the IP's remain the same too. Flushing your DNS would only help if there is a local resolver issue on your end. Our DNS itself is handled by Amazon which uses a CDN/anycast service. You should consider using an alternative DNS provider like Google or OpenDNS.
How in the world did you switch datacenters without getting a new IP address? Whether it's the same host or not I was under the general impression from my previous work in IT that IP addresses were allocated geographically to each data center and could not be tossed around like that. Also I'd like to note that I do in-fact use Google DNS. I have ever since it came out as my ISP's DNS servers are junk.
Regardless, flushing the DNS cache temporarily worked for me and another player within 90 miles of me, however just be aware that as of this morning I am still having issues. The server still only shows online for me once and a while and at least two other players in my area have had the same issue. Even if you attempt to connect SA-MP states that the server is not responding, however I can still ping the IP address and get no packet loss. After waiting a while it eventually kicks back in.
As stated above his is happening to multiple people on multiple ISPs within a small area of the US. Not sure if any other US players are having issues or not, but I know for a fact it's not just me.