[meteorite-list] MPOD 500-error Update

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:52:26 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <8D0B9E2DC06C00F-C40-85176_at_webmail-m218.sysops.aol.com>

Excellent Explanation Paul!!
And it actually makes sense. Yes, the problem started right after I
switched to Comcast (cable provider here).

You should go help Google, their explanation explained nothing at all.
And don't fire the idiot-programmer. Yet.

Thanks.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: valparint <valparint at aol.com>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 27, 2013 2:23 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] MPOD 500-error Update


Hello List.

One of the causes of "500" errors when accessing the MPOD was IPv6
addresses.
What's that, you ask?

An IP address uniquely defines an Internet node, which is any piece of
Data
Communication Equipment (server, router, hub, etc.) or any piece of Data

Terminal Equipment (computer, printer, web cam, etc.) The original
design of the
Internet Protocol (IP) called for a 32-bit IP address, which allows for
a bit
over 4 billion addresses. That seemed like a lot back then but that is
not the
case now. So, the world is moving toward IPv6 addresses, which is a
128-bit
quantity. That allows for 3.4?10^38 addresses, or 340 trillion trillion
trillion
using the 1 trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 definition. That should be
sufficient
for a while.

For certain technical reasons, not forseen by the idiot-programmer, the
MPOD
failed when it encountered an IPv6 address. That has been fixed.

Anne, when you switched to ComCast you suddenly started coming through
with an
IPv6 address.

Either URL - www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp or
www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp
- ought to work now. However,

   YOU MAY NEED TO DO A REFRESH ON THE PAGE

One last thing. I apologize to Andreas Koppelt in particular and the
list in
general for using the term "bummer" in my previous post. Using slang on
an
international list is a poor practice that I try to avoid but I failed
in this
instance. "Bummer" is 1960s hippie slang for something bad. For example,

"Bummer, man! We're out of dope." It is not hard to see how the word
could be
interpreted as "one who is a bum", or some other unpleasant thing.

Cheers

Paul Swartz
IMCA 5204
MPOD Idiot-Programmer

p.s. Please, if anyone has problems connecting to the MPOD, let me know.
More
information is very helpful in finding software bugs.


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