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Re: broken servers - I''m going crazy

From: Claude Errera
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2002
Time: 2:28:55 pm

Recently, Brad Schrick wrote:


>Hey Claude --
>
>At 16:45 -0500 1/23/02, Claude Errera wrote:
>>
>>>>Once again - smallbits.com is registered with dotster.com. Dotster doesn't
>>>>ALLOW the specifying of IP addresses - only names.
>
>-- weird.... makes some sense, I suppose, on review, but I can also
>see where the redundancy of specifying IP is a good thing...
>
>-- if you take down all of your name servers all at once, as our
>admin did one year, damn him, then there is no way to get the right
>answer. Nobody knows.
>
>-- in your case, ns1-auth and ns2-auth presumably know the last
>whereabouts of your servers.

This is the weird part - even those who see the old address see the two
sprintlink.net servers... why aren't they queried when ns1 and ns2 are found
to be unreachable?

Sometimes I hate the internet. :(

>-- for the record, with or without DNS Expert I'm getting
>ns1.smallbits.com at 63.172.241.194, and ns2 at 63.172.241.195, from
>everybody I ask, starting with my own DNS setup in TCP.
>
>Isn't that where they are supposed to have moved to?
>www.smallbits.com resolves for me...

Yup. But a lot of clients see the same thing Len sees. :(
--
Claude
errera@bungie.org



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