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• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Thu, Sep 23 2010 1:04 PM

  This is the first time I seen this.

  

  The black bold writing was on my home page.  Reading the obscured writing it does say "Service Unavailable DNS Failure"  Could someone from WGT explain this unusual error.

  I saw the same error when I log onto WGT

  

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, Sep 23 2010 1:10 PM

  I saw that with one of the side bar ads yesterday. It's like it didn't load right. Refreshing the page made it right.

• BEARlyThere 88 Posts

  Thu, Sep 23 2010 1:43 PM

  I think those are the placeholders for Facebook and FB has been up and down like a toilet seat the past couple of days.

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Thu, Sep 23 2010 2:27 PM

  Firefox with the AdBlock plus add-on removes all of this garbage!

  You'd be amazed at how page load times are reduced, by not waiting on ad servers

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Thu, Sep 23 2010 2:34 PM

  Those are not place holders if they were, you would see website not available, not "Service unvailable DNS Failure"

• nickuk 967 Posts

  Thu, Sep 23 2010 3:23 PM

  a novice hack...

• BEARlyThere 88 Posts

  Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:32 AM

  Infinito3010:

  Those are not place holders if they were, you would see website not available, not "Service unvailable DNS Failure"

  Well it was just a guess anyway because that is where the FB stuff usually shows on the page and it was the exact same message received when FB was down. And, when FB came back up, the message was gone.

  Don't mind me, I blame Facebook for everything...lol

• Faterson 2,902 Posts

  Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:49 AM

  BEARlyThere, you're correct, that was a Facebook matter and unrelated to WGT.com. Those were definitely placeholders for Facebook ads/links, but instead of those Facebook data, we got to read the "Service unvailable DNS Failure" message.  

  (I know this is a Facebook matter and nothing to do with WGT.com, because I got to read the same error messages yesterday on the Slovak news portal SME.sk .)

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Fri, Sep 24 2010 6:31 AM

  Hi Faterson;

  The item in question has the following URL address;

  http://dms.wgt.com/promos*

  Please look carefully at the URL address.

   

  The facebook items have the following mask;

  http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wgt.com%2fhome.aspx&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=720px&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=25px

   

• Faterson 2,902 Posts

  Sat, Sep 25 2010 4:33 AM

  Infinito, I don't care about URLs. I'm saying that the initial DNS unavailable blah, blah error message you referred to in your opening post is from Facebook and not WGT.