The Real Blogger Status

Last month, we observed that SSL, though generally available for blogs published to "blogspot.com", did not work for all such blogs . Owners of blogs who used the "www" alias of "blogspot.com", such as my BlogSpot mirror blog " https://blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com/ ", reported annoying error messages, when trying to access the "www" alias of the blog, using SSL. Your connection is not private For my BlogSpot mirror blog, you'll see the problem, when viewing " https://www.blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com/ ". The problem apparently involves the SSL certificate for "blogspot.com", which does not include the "www" aliase for the subdomains (such as "blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com").

This week, numerous bloggers in India are reporting inability to access blogs published to BlogSpot. We have a problem rollup in Blogger Help Forum , where the problem is being explored. You may find it useful to use a proxy server , to get the most useful advice, if you are experiencing this problem. The problem has apparently been active for several days. This time yesterday, it appeared that the problem was centered around customers of AirTel India; today, we see customers of AirTel and other services reporting this problem. If you are located in India - or you are getting reports from blog readers in India - and you (or your readers) are experiencing any difficulty accessing any Blogger or Google services, please provide details, in the rollup discussion . Geographic location - City and Country, please, where the problem is being observed. The name of the ISP providing connectivity, to the computers with the problem. Please verify the scope of the outage, using my standar...

Various blogger customers in or near Indonesia are reporting inability to access Blogger blogs. Preliminary analysis appears that the problem is seen only with Blog*Spot blog addresses - custom domain URLs appear to be accessed with no problem, with the corresponding BlogSpot URL being inaccessible. We have a Problem Rollup question in Blogger Help Forum, where the epidemiology of the problem is being explored. If you are experiencing this problem, please state your country and city, and name of ISP. Next, please help verify nature of your outage. Here are 5 replicas of the same article. Please click on each link, one after the other, and observe which links provide content to read. Please be specific - which ones can you, and which can't you, read? http://blogger-status-for-real.blogspot.com/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2006/07/help-my-blog-is-gone.html http://gr...

Various bloggers in India - the majority being customers of Reliance Telecomm - are reporting inability to access Blog*Spot, with no reported problems accessing Blogger or Google in general. The problem appears to be geographically uniform across all of India. We have a Problem Rollup question in Blogger Help Forum, where the epidemiology of the problem is being explored. Some bloggers appear to be able to regain access, by using different DNS servers from the ones supplied by their ISP. This is a possible workaround, though it may not be a good permanent solution for several reasons. Several bloggers have reported contact with Reliance Tech Support, though the depth of commitment by Reliance TS, to solving the problem, is unknown. To help identify and verify the epidemiology of the problem, please state diagnostic details as clearly as possible. Your location (City and State, please). The name of your ISP. Is your problem with accessing Blog*Spot, Blogger , Google, other d...

A few bloggers in the MidWest USA region - apparently AT&T DSL customers - are reporting inability to access Blogger, Blog*Spot, and in some cases, various Google services. We have a Problem Rollup question in Blogger Help Forum, where the epidemiology of the problem is being explored. For right now, if you are affected by this outage, please use a proxy server to access all Blog*Spot blogs. And read BHG Resources: My Blog Is Gone , or [FAQ] I Can't See My Blog. What Should I Do? for insight into diagnosing this problem. (Update 10:00 3/28): This problem has been resolved. >> Top

Last month, we saw two steps in the beginning of the migration from FTP Publishing to Custom Domain Publishing, as a standard for non BlogSpot publishing of Blogger blogs. A visible change was provided by Rick Klau, new Blogger Product Manager, with Blogger Buzz: FTP vs. Custom Domains . A second, less visible change was made to the new blog setup process. Before last month, the "Name your blog" screen, where you selected the name of the BlogSpot blog which you wished associated with your blog, had an alternate link at the bottom, "Advanced Settings". If you were to click on the "Advanced Settings" link, you'd be taken directly into the FTP Publishing setup process, without choosing a BlogSpot name. The "Advanced Settings" link is now located on a screen reached from the "Continue" link on "Name your blog", and the link now takes you into the Custom Domain "Advanced Settings" publishing setup screen. This c...

Several bloggers are suggesting that the caching problem experienced by a number of bloggers in the UK and Europe may not be resolved, as previously thought. If you're experiencing this problem, please provide diagnostics in a comment below. We'll start this over, so help us out here. Everybody can subscribe to the comment thread for this post , to track this. Where are you? Country and city is appreciated. What ISP do you use? What browser and operating system (name and version please) do you use? What is the BlogSpot and domain URLs of the blog involved? Is it your blog? A log from either PathPing (preferred) , or from TraceRt (useful still) , would be very appreciated. If possible, join the discussion in my forum (approval for membership required, be patient please). >> Top

If you're in the UK / Europe / Middle East, and viewing your blog, and you refresh the display - maybe because you published a new post, or changed the template - and you think that what you're seeing now isn't quite right, it may not be your imagination. We have various reports from UK / Europe / Middle East bloggers of seeing old blog content, periodically, when refreshing their browser. Some, maybe not all, seem to report their blog published to a custom domain ie Google server. The symptom here resembles the presence of an upstream cache , but the cache may be in Google physical space. Today being Patch Tuesday, and with this problem having apparently started in the UK / Europe, one might think of Microsoft Updates as being a contributing factor. But with the comments below mentioning Firefox and Safari as much as Internet Explorer, that's not a strong probability. Only time will tell whether bloggers in the Americas, and later, Asia, are also affected. If you...

Many bloggers are totally unaware of how many different domains make up the Blogger and Google address space. Daily, we see passionate yet vague problem reports My Followers gadget doesn't show any pictures. The links in my Navbar don't do anything when you click on them. I can't publish a post - the buttons don't work (aren't there in the toolbar). The feed gadgets on my blog don't update. Each of these complaints, phrased as they are, result in part from bloggers who don't understand how many addresses (domains) Blogger and Google use, in providing us the ability to publish and maintain our blogs, and in providing our readers with the ability to view and to enjoy our blogs. Most of us are aware of the dual nature of Blogger / BlogSpot , hopefully when we setup and maintain security settings in our browser . Blogger contains the code ("scripts") that lets us setup and maintain our blogs. We will have to trust Blogger, since it contains the code t...

Several bloggers in Canada are reporting inability to access blogs, from either Toronto or Ontario. The outage apparently affects custom domain published blogs, as well as Blog*Spot published ones . The outage is stated to have been observed at least a day ago. Since the outage appears to affect both Blog*Spot and custom domain published blogs, it's not as likely to be DNS related - either an intentional DNS block, or a DNS server corruption / outage. One Blogger was kind enough to provide a traceroute log , showing no basic connectivity issue. Tracing route to blogspot.l.google.com [72.14.207.191] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 66.203.194.1 3 4 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 154.11.63.101 5 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms TOROONXNDR02.bb.telus.com [66.203.192.193] 6 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms chcgildtgr00.bb.telus.com [154.11.6.29] 7 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms toroonxngr00.bb.telus.com [154.11.6.23] 8 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 154....

Several bloggers in Turkey are reporting inability to access Blogger, and / or Blog*Spot blogs. No details have been provided by any reporting. For right now, please use a proxy server to access all Blog*Spot blogs. Blogger Support is aware of the problem , and is working on it. We are looking into the matter, and working to ensure that the service is restored as soon as possible. (Update 10/26 21:00): It looks like we have a situation reminiscent of the recent outages in India and Thailand. A government initiated blockage, compounded by the local ISPs . By the order of local court, Turkish blogger users can not login or even display their blog sites.Some of blog users had broadcast those games freely in their blog sites. Digiturk went to court to fix this problem. Court decides to close those illegal broadcasts. >> Top

IP Networking is how your computer, and millions of other computers worldwide, connect to Blogger and to Blog*Spot, and millions of still more computers. The Internet is based upon IP (" Internet Protocol ") Networking. IP Networking, which uses packet switching technology, was legendarily designed for a military / political need - to survive imminent military action during the United States / Soviet Union Cold War , in the mid 1900s. I'm envisioning a legendary, top secret, conversation: Military Strategist #1: Let's put computers on all of our military bases, and let's connect all of our computers with each other. Colonel Frimmis in Richmond can work better with Colonel Frammis in Dallas, with their computers directly connected. Military Strategist #2: And what happens when the Russians find out? They'll sneak over here, cut the network cable between Dallas and Richmond, and we'll be in deep you know what. The Alpha project will fall behind schedul...

Several bloggers in the UK are reporting inability to access any BlogSpot blogs. For right now, please use a proxy server to access all Blog*Spot blogs. And read BHG Resources: My Blog Is Gone for insight into diagnosing this problem. And find or start a thread, and post diagnostic details, in Blogger Help Group: Something Is Broken Where are you located, and what ISP do you use? What operating system and browser do you use? Can you provide a PathPing or a TraceRoute , log to assist us? >> Top

PKBlogs goes down periodically. It looks like they're down right now. I use PKBlogs so I can package the URL of my target with my advice, as in http://www.pkblogs.com/bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/ 2007/03/connectivity-problems-with-blogspot.html Clicking on that URL takes you directly to my blog (when PKBlogs is up). Other than that, you can use any other proxy server, to access any blog or web site, anonymously and safely . Google for "free proxy server" , and pick one. You'll have to type the URL of the target (your blog) each time unfortunately.