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Post by Paul_Schatzkin »

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No, Elon Musk did not shut us down.

There was a perfect storm of issues for several hours, I won't go into the details but once we (thanks, Frank) realized that it was NOT our host servers but something within our account on those servers, we got everything restored.

I hope nobody tried to post the Solution to the Controlled Fusion Conundrum during those several hours...

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I did. Now I forgot what the hell it was. I should've written it down.
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Much appreciate the time and effort y'all put into keeping this site up.
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Strangely, there was one post lost during that unusual downtime for the site. Part of the message was encrypted but from what I can decipher it has to do with fusion drive, gravity space warping, and interdimensional travel. The IP address is not like any I have seen on the planet.

Only the topics remain with reference to some element 115. Nothing else is left of the message.

Couldn't have been too important.
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Frank, did you happen to see if the User ID was "Lucky Donkey" ?

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I don't know what you mean by encrypted but you can post foreign characters. Something that is encrypted is just going to be a long string of random alphanumeric characters.

The IP was probably IPv6, not sure how it could be anything else as the user would not be able to communicate with the server. Additionally I'm sure there is some kind of validation from phpBB. As you may recall from the news the internet ran out of IPv4 numbers. IPv6 looks something like this:

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2001:db8:3333:4444:5555:6666:7777:8888
They can contain numbers, upper and lowercase alpha characters.
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IPVv6 addresses have hexadecimal numbers That is 0-9 and a-f
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My mistake Bob, no capital letters.
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