>>>>>>>HI
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've been accessing a web service for several month and suddenly the connection has started timing out. I can still see the wsdl on the web site but no connection is getting a response.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The web service is at http://gfweb34777.parcelperfect.com/ppintegrationservice/Soap/index.php/wsdl
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>any ideas what I should be telling the web service owners to look at ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hmm. Seems odd. Hitting any of the soap actions (e.g. http://gfweb34777.parcelperfect.com/ppintegrationservice/Soap/index.php/wsdl/Waybill_submitWaybill/Auth_getSecureToken) just returns the (default?) page at
>>>>>>http://gfweb34777.parcelperfect.com/ppintegrationservice/Soap/index.php.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Looks like they've screwed up somewhere........
>>>>>
>>>>>:-( Yup
>>>>
>>>>Let us know what you discover.....
>>>
>>>It was them (this time)
>>>
>>>"We have managed to get to the bottom of it. The issue relates to the
>>>internal resolution of the gfweb DNS address. It seems Cypherwave have
>>>disabled the internal loopback which basically prevented the DNS from
>>>resolving internally. We know they made changes in December that required
>>>moving of hardware and possible network changes and while doing this,
>>>disabled the loopback functionality. We have changed this DNS to the local
>>>IP address of the server instead which circumvents the loopback issue,
>>>hopefully nothing else changes going forward."
>>
>>:-}
>>Have you noticed this sort of thing tends to happen over Xmas ?
>>I just spent an hour tracking down a problem that stemmed from a SSL certificate which expired on 31/12/2013 :-{
>>
>>Happy New Year.
>
>that must have been hard to find. Even the "have you changed anything "wouldn't show it up
>
>Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda to you to. (hope thats correct and not Klingon or something)

Close. No w in blwyddyn tho :-}