Briareos
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Now that was a rather long domainsite.com nameserver outage.

Maybe they shouldn't store all 4 nameservers in a cupboard in their mom's basement; waaay to crash-prone...

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ErikH2000
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Briareos wrote:
Now that was a rather long domainsite.com nameserver outage.

Maybe they shouldn't store all 4 nameservers in a cupboard in their mom's basement; waaay to crash-prone...

Yeah, I'm really mad at those guys.

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I need to write one more post to indicate the severity of how much I hate them.

There, I did it.

-Erik

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I missed the forum, but I got my fix listening to the music of Lars Kristiaan Andersen (did I spell that correctly?).

Edit: It's Lars Kristian Aasbrenn. I got him confused with that other great "composer", Hans.

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Elfstone
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Ummmm . . . what happened?

I've been shut out of here most of today.

Elf.

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Yeah it had been down since I woke up, until a couple of hours ago. I'm glad it's back.

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Elfstone wrote:
Ummmm . . . what happened?

All the nameservers that the site uses at domainsite.com went down for some reason. This meant that, whilst the forum was up, you couldn't get to it as the domain name wasn't being resolved into an IP address.

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Elfstone
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Andy101 wrote:
All the nameservers that the site uses at domainsite.com went down for some reason. This meant that, whilst the forum was up, you couldn't get to it as the domain name wasn't being resolved into an IP address.

oh . . . .



so . . something crashed?

my ignorance of these things is truly profound!!!!

Thanks Andy!

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That took waaaay too long. Glad to see that the forums are back.

Keep posting,

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Elfstone wrote:

Andy101 wrote:
All the nameservers that the site uses at domainsite.com went down for some reason. This meant that, whilst the forum was up, you couldn't get to it as the domain name wasn't being resolved into an IP address.

oh . . . .



so . . something crashed?

my ignorance of these things is truly profound!!!!

Thanks Andy!

In simpler terms, the store was open, but the address numbers were removed and it disappeared from all existing maps...

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Note to self: record forum IP in case that happens again.

EDIT: Seems you aren't using top-level domain management. CURSE YOU for ruining my plans... err... making me unable to look at the forum sometimes.

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coppro wrote:
Note to self: record forum IP in case that happens again.

EDIT: Seems you aren't using top-level domain management. CURSE YOU for ruining my plans... err... making me unable to look at the forum sometimes.

In that case, what IS the forum IP?

Also, its good to see that it had nothing to do with Caravel games personally.

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NiroZ wrote:

coppro wrote:
Note to self: record forum IP in case that happens again.

EDIT: Seems you aren't using top-level domain management. CURSE YOU for ruining my plans... err... making me unable to look at the forum sometimes.

In that case, what IS the forum IP?

Also, its good to see that it had nothing to do with Caravel games personally.

72.232.206.138

However, since one server seems to host multiple subdomains, it's not like some servers where you just type in the IP and the site pops up. There's a certain filepath that has to be taken, and that's the problem. I tried the four most likely paths, and the forum isn't there. So, I have no idea.

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It made me sad, especially since I was away for a few days and was wondering what had happened over here.

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Drgamer
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I would have had one more goodie by now

Dang server people, not knowing enough to have backup servers, just in case (Or at least backup servers away from the servers they're backing up)

ErikH2000
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coppro wrote:
72.232.206.138

However, since one server seems to host multiple subdomains, it's not like some servers where you just type in the IP and the site pops up. There's a certain filepath that has to be taken, and that's the problem. I tried the four most likely paths, and the forum isn't there. So, I have no idea.

That's good information, Coppro. Yeah, the webserver is configured such that it requires a domain name to know which website to serve.

For the persistent and technically minded, you can edit a local hosts file (lmhosts on most Windows machines) to set up caravelgames.com to point to the above IP address and it will get you through name server downage.

But honestly, we shouldn't have to put up with this. I'm going to ditch Domainsite pretty quick. Anybody have some real experience running a website with a nameserver that stayed up at least 355 days of the year? I've heard good things about godaddy and joker.

-Erik

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I've heard BAD things about godaddy
GoDaddy is Evil

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NiroZ
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well a quick google for nameservers brought up this.

Briareos
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ErikH2000 wrote:
Anybody have some real experience running a website with a nameserver that stayed up at least 355 days of the year? I've heard good things about godaddy and joker.

Can't help you with your choice of DNS service, but are you really sure 10 days a year of downtime are acceptable? *scratches head*

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ErikH2000
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Briareos wrote:

ErikH2000 wrote:
Anybody have some real experience running a website with a nameserver that stayed up at least 355 days of the year? I've heard good things about godaddy and joker.

Can't help you with your choice of DNS service, but are you really sure 10 days a year of downtime are acceptable? *scratches head*

You mean there aren't 356 days in a year?

-Erik

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12 x 30 = 360

Now, think about it: Are there more months with more or less than 30 days?

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ErikH2000 wrote:

Briareos wrote:
Can't help you with your choice of DNS service, but are you really sure 10 days a year of downtime are acceptable? *scratches head*

You mean there aren't 356 days in a year?

-Erik

There is? I always thought it was about 265.25 days in a year, or close to that anyway
Damn post collision.

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NiroZ wrote:
There is? I always thought it was about 256.25 days in a year, or close to that anyway

1 year = 365.242199 days

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NiroZ
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Kevin_P86 wrote:

NiroZ wrote:
There is? I always thought it was about 256.25 days in a year, or close to that anyway

1 year = 365.242199 days

hey, its the source that counts.

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ErikH2000 wrote:

Briareos wrote:

ErikH2000 wrote:
Anybody have some real experience running a website with a nameserver that stayed up at least 355 days of the year? I've heard good things about godaddy and joker.

Can't help you with your choice of DNS service, but are you really sure 10 days a year of downtime are acceptable? *scratches head*

You mean there aren't 356 days in a year?

Is that a trick question?

Of course there are 356 days in a year...

But most of the time there's even more.

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Briareos
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NiroZ wrote:

Kevin_P86 wrote:

Google says:
1 year = 365.242199 days

hey, its the source that counts.

Hmmm... a coworker of mine starts working at Google research in November - maybe he could rig the calculator from there?

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NiroZ
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Briareos wrote:

NiroZ wrote:

Kevin_P86 wrote:

Google says:
1 year = 365.242199 days

hey, its the source that counts.

Hmmm... a coworker of mine starts working at Google research in November - maybe he could rig the calculator from there?

and then he can change google calender to 29.67 days! The proof will be undeniable.