Weird. I'm at home. I just figured out I can post from my laptop, but I cannot post from my desk computer. In my case, I could not post to this existing thread. The following message was what I was trying to post before I noticed today that people had different issues with different computers. I will see if I can figure this out since I have both computers in the same house!
I've been trying to reply to this thread for the last 24 hours but haven't been able to. I can read it fine. I'm using FireFox 1.5.0.2 on Windows XP (for the forum & phpMyAdmin problems), SmartFTP 1.0.974 for the FTP problems. The same thing happens in IE 6.0 as far as I can tell.
I've been having the same problem during the last 48 hours. At the same time that I cannot post on the forums (as mentioned in the first post of this thread - it keeps waiting on my end until timing-out with 'Cannot find Server' or 'The Connection was Reset'), I cannot upload to the Coppermine FTP server or write to the MySQL database (plus I cannot private message here as well). I can read for all fine, and I see all the forms fine too. I just cannot do write-like operations in all 3 places (forum, FTP, MySQL database). Most of the time it's like this. Only 2 times in the last 48 hours, things "snapped" back to normal and I could do all 3. Yesterday morning, it wasn't working, then started working - it was fine for about 20 minutes, then went back to not working.
The one read-like operation that doesn't work at the same time is exporting a table from the database. I use that page to check if things are working or not because trying to redo a post on the forums is difficult. When submitting a post, if I hit STOP, hitting the POST button again does not work (maybe it's a Firefox thing with forms) - I have to go back to the original thread, then hit REPLY and retype (or paste) my post to try again. When I can export the table in phpMyAdmin, I know things are working and can FTP, post, etc.
For FTP when I try to upload a file, it adds a 0-byte file with the same name, then my client waits, with a eventual "Server Timeout" message. When things are working, I do the same thing and everything works. I can download files fine on the FTP server when I have the upload problems.
For MySQL, it's strange because I can do one write-like operation which is add one field to a table. But when I try to add two, I cannot. Modifying records and exporting tables doesn't work as mentioned before. This is all through phpMyAdmin.
I turned off all the firewall-type things on my end, rebooted, etc, with no change. It might be on my end, but seeing another person having the same problem makes me wonder.
Test.