[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #11910: TV Metadata Lookup Fails

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 15:10:32 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:04 PM,  <noreply at mythtv.org> wrote:
....
>  The tl;dr version is that depending where in the world you're making the
>  query from, www.thetvdb.com isn't consistently translated into
>  thetvdb.com. To answer why would require someone with superior knowledge
>  of DNS than myself.

While it is not the best tool, have you validated using
https://www.whatsmydns.net/ that this is a DNS issue,
and not a general reachability issue?

btw, a 503 error is (essentially) the server is overloaded,
and if you get another server (because of DNS round-robin
responses), that may mean that the other server is still
running.  In that case, the 503 error appears to be
"random" to someone who is not carefully looking at
the details.  In other words, the name used is not
the real problem.  It is the target service.

Gary


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