[LINK] eCensus seems to be choking on the load

[Anthony Hornby]

Hi Everyone,
Well looks like it may have just been affecting me for some reason.
Could have been some glitch between here and the census site.

I didn't do much investigation as I was completing it while simultaneously
amusing my six month old daughter who is at home with me while I am on
leave.

The pages loaded fairly quickly - I just got several server side errors.

Anyway, I got there in the end.

I agree technically it should have been done tomorrow.

Regards Anthony.

<quote who="Howard Lowndes">
> I fired mine off at around 8:45 this morning having gone thru the entire
> form to check what I had previously put in, and submitted it with no
> problems.
>
> Worked for me...
>
> anthony hornby wrote:
>> Hi,
>> thought I'd report on using the eCensus on the actual day.
>> I have been attempting to complete this this morning and have had five
>> failed attempts to progress through the form so far. Total time so far
>> estimated at 1.5 hours.
>>
>> 5 x "404 page not found" messages on submit with loss of all data in
>> that section.
>>
>> Wait several minutes of retrying before you get in again between each
>> "404".
>>
>> I am now stuck on this error message.
>> "Error: Logon failed (code 570). Please wait 30 minutes and try again.
>> If you continue to receive this message, please call the Census Inquiry
>> Service on 1300 651 181 and quote error message number 570 to the
>> Customer Service Representative."
>>
>> Looks like those that predicted it wouldn't handle the load are bang on
>> the money. Perhaps this was designed by the same lot that designed the
>> new customs management software at the ports <grin>.
>>
>> Ok, that should have wasted enough time .... back to try and log in
>> again <sigh>.
>>
>> Sometimes you should just stick with the paper version.
>>
>> Regards Anthony.
>>
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