What's happening to DU? Just got this message.

[mia]

This site can’t provide a secure connection www.democraticunderground.com uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

I was able to get back in using a link to an old post.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&stop=1

[Dawson Leery]

1. I got the same message and re-entered using an old post too.

Is this going to be a 2016 repeat?

[gabeana]

2. something happened

went to DU facebook to make sure it wasn't my connection

[mia]

7. I went to facebook DU and Twitter too.

There was no mention of this problem.

[zipplewrath]

3. Likewise

Mineralman showed me a path to get here.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/

[MineralMan]

38. I have that other domain saved as an alternative in my bookmarks.

It can be useful from time to time.

[MrGrieves]

4. upload. is a different sub domain.

[Cha]

5. Happened to me, too.. on IE and then I went

to Google Chrome.. and here we are.

[PatSeg]

23. I'm on Chrome

and it happened to me. I think it was down everywhere for a short period of time.

[Cha]

51. Ah.. it must have been just the right timing..

when I tried to get in on GC.

Thanks, Pat

[PatSeg]

62. You're welcome!

I think everyone is waiting for the big hack like 2016.

[jcgoldie]

6. I can never access the main page from work... says unsecured

... but if I go directly to one of the boards I can get in.

[sagesnow]

8. Me too.

I was able to get in by using a "back door" method. I Googled DU and then clicked on a LATEST THREADS link. Are we being hacked or just extra heavy traffic before the election?

[Scurrilous]

9. I got that message too.

Hitting refresh made it go away.

[unblock]

10. seems to have been fixed? not sure, did the certificate really expire?

[wcmagumba]

11. Facebook now says...

DU DOWNTIME: DU is currently down due to an error caused by our hosting company during an upgrade. We are working to fix the problem. Thanks for your patience.

Hosting company doing an "upgrade" the day before election...get new hosting company?

[MineralMan]

12. It seems to be working OK again with the www.democraticundeground.com domain.

I don't know, but it looks like it's fixed.

[MosheFeingold]

13. Don't know

By I got some weird message that "SSL socket was unavailable."

Maybe someone tripped over the cord and plugged it back in.

[FSogol]

14. DU went down for about 25 minutes. Glad it is back. n/t

[empedocles]

15. ditto here also, has happened with some other sites before 'not secure'

[bearsfootball516]

16. Glad it wasn't just me!

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. Happened to me on my desktop and my phone.

Hmmmmm

[FreepFryer]

18. Looks like certificate issues, but

Skinner n pals better have those servers under constant guard between now and the end of the election... this one is war.

[fleur-de-lisa]

19. "error caused by our hosting company during an upgrade"

DemUnderground
@demunderground

DU DOWNTIME: DU is currently down due to an error caused by our hosting company during an upgrade. We are working to fix the problem. Thanks for your patience.

1:23 PM - Nov 5, 2018

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

29. THIS

Thankfully Mineral Man posted an alternate link on the Facebook page using "upload.democraticunderground.com" domain.

[AncientGeezer]

20. The posted thi a few mins ago

"DemUnderground @demunderground
44s45 seconds ago

DU DOWNTIME: DU is currently down due to an error caused by our hosting company during an upgrade. We are working to fix the problem. Thanks for your patience."

[RKP5637]

21. Similar happened here. I had to do a google search, found DU and came in that way. n/t

[Jersey Devil]

22. deja vu

So how many of us said, "shit, hacked again" at the same time?

[irisblue]

67. 🙋

[grantcart]

24. It went down. Attack#1

[former9thward]

65. No attack.

The site was not hacked.

Announcement here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10139064

[grantcart]

66. lol yes I posted before the announcement which makes this thread redundant

[vercetti2021]

25. Freaked me out

Thought DU got hacked again

[workinclasszero]

26. Fuck something fishy is going on

Could not hook up to DU on phone or PC.

Shit are the GOP/Russians going to bring down DU again tonight and tomorrow?

[bearsfootball516]

39. Not exactly.

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1059526668384169984&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F100211367222

[workinclasszero]

56. The timing by the host company

A day before this election to save America from Trumps fascist takeover is really really really suspicious to me. Call me crazy but I remember DU going down hard when Trump666 was selected.

Hope it doesn’t happen again.

[pintobean]

46. Russian test run

24 hours out.

[Maeve]

27. Guys, don't scare us like that!

Day-um! Not again!

[PunkinPi]

28. Hosting issue - tweet here

Link to tweet

DU DOWNTIME: DU is currently down due to an error caused by our hosting company during an upgrade. We are working to fix the problem. Thanks for your patience.

[Downtown Hound]

31. Whew! Man I was starting to get pissed, thinking it had happened again.

[PunkinPi]

42. Me too, ran to twitter to see what was up and thankfully there was a tweet. nt

[arthurgoodwin]

30. Got a different message

I initially got the same "site can't provide a secure connection" message. After several attempts to connect using other means I got another message: "democraticunderground.com server forbids connection". A version of this message also appeared on several "is this site down" websites when I queried about democratic underground's status. Then everything just cleared up.

[NightWatcher]

32. Skinner and crew just wanted to get our assholes puckered up before tomorrow

Just kidding, hope they were reinforcing our defenses.

We got this!!,

[better]

33. This probably isn't anything too terribly serious

It probably means that the webserver for that particular domain currently has settings for SSL requiring a version of encryption that is not natively enabled in modern browser versions. Chances are it will work in IE, and there are settings you can change in Firefox and Chrome to get it working again.

But more than likely, they will change a config option in the server and reload the service and it'll be sorted out.

[byronius]

34. Made my heart rate rise significantly.

Whew.

[NBachers]

35. Yep, it happened to me on my phone. I devised a sideways way to get in. I hope that's the end of it.

[FakeNoose]

36. I restarted my Chrome browser and the message went away

Nothing to worry about. I think they're implementing some new virus protections, just to be on the safe side.

[Skinner]

37. *** WE HAD A GLITCH DURING AN UPGRADE ***

The site was not hacked.

Announcement here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10139064

[NightWatcher]

44. Sorry boss, we've got PTSD from last time, it appears.

[Doreen]

59. You described it perfectly.

I started feeling immediate panic and sadness.

Call me nuts.

[louis c]

52. Thanks Skinner

[rickford66]

40. There used to be an emergency site for members

Is it still available & is there a link if it is ??

[Honeycombe8]

47. FB and Twitter accounts...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1191858484228320/ (join the group NOW so you don't have to be approved later!)


DemUnderground on twitter (I "followed" it a few days ago, so I wouldn't have to hunt for it)

[rickford66]

49. Other than FB or twitter ?

I don't do either

[Honeycombe8]

60. Skinner did a post recently outlining alternatives. Those are it.

Look at the post by Skinner about "what you need to know for election day." I think it's in there...what to do in case DU goes down.

You can join twitter in a flash. (FB is more complicated, since you have to have an account first.) But you just sign up for twitter, and bang...you can go to DemUnderground's twitter page and read and post.

[rickford66]

63. I finally figured out the FB group.

I have a FB account like everybody but don't use it. Thanks for the advice.

[littlemissmartypants]

61. Thanks for this, Honeycombe8. I just put in a join request.

[Honeycombe8]

68. You're welcome!

[Honeycombe8]

41. Me, too! 1st time ever had got error msg like that. Here's what I did to get in:

https://medium.com/@sslsecurity/how-to-fix-err-ssl-version-or-cipher-mismatch-error-5447c30ac78a


1. DELETED DEM... COOKIES
2. DID THE TLS INSTRUCTIONS IN SITE AT LINK POSTED
3. DID THE QUIRC INSTRUCTIONS IN SITE AT LINK POSTED
4. I temporarily turned off Firewall.

(I will now turn firewall back on.)

[Equinox Moon]

43. I did too.

I was blocked out for about 1/2 hour that I tried. Then it worked. Obviously, since I am commenting. Ha!

[Brother Buzz]

45. DU DOWNTIME 11/5/18 Appx 2:30 ET

DU DOWNTIME 11/5/18 Appx 2:30 ET
Democratic Underground had a brief period of downtime from approximately 2:00 to 2:30 pm today. This was due to an error caused by our hosting company during an upgrade.

We have fixed the problem, and are now double-checking our servers to make sure everything is ok.

In case it isn't clear: The site was NOT hacked. This was a totally innocent glitch.

Thank you for your understanding.

Skinner, EarlG, Elad
DU Administrators

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10139064

[Honeycombe8]

48. Oh, thank goodness!!!! I thought DU was hacked! nt

[Cha]

53. Thanks, Buzz

[Doreen]

58. Bless you.

[rusty fender]

50. Got the same error message

and had flashbacks of 2016

[LAS14]

54. Whew!!!! That was scary!!! nt

[Doreen]

55. Yup, got it also. I thought here we go again. I needed to shower so am I just now looking it

Back up. Thank goodness.

[nolabear]

57. LOL! They scared me to death. We're understandable squirrely.

Glad it came back up fast. I'll try to take the lesson-don't freak out until there's real reason to freak out.

[Awsi Dooger]

64. I thought it was an early goner

I made a post and I'm not even sure it went through.

Then I received the error message and continued to receive it for nearly a half hour.

At least it didn't say, "All your senators are belong to us."

I guess you have to be a veteran from November 2002 or earlier to understand that reference