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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fury on July 03, 2006, 04:06:29 am

Title: Recent downtime
Post by: Fury on July 03, 2006, 04:06:29 am

There was a problem with either Servelocity or their ISP's DNS servers. DNS problems are nearly always short.

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Mefustae on July 03, 2006, 04:07:32 am

Ah, that 'splains it.

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: vyper on July 03, 2006, 06:02:57 am

There was downtime?

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Grug on July 03, 2006, 06:28:25 am

Does that mean if I used HLP's internet protocal address instead of the uniform resource locator I'd still been able to access it? :confused:

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Fury on July 03, 2006, 06:44:06 am

Nope.

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 03, 2006, 08:35:53 am

 :yes2: Its back up now anyway so we can rejoice :yes:

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: IceFire on July 03, 2006, 09:39:44 am

Seems like a number of sites were down for me last night.  I figured something happend that was more widespread so I wasn't too concerned.

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Grug on July 03, 2006, 10:07:13 am

Quote from: Fury on July 03, 2006, 06:44:06 am

Nope.

Interesting.

I thought if it was purely the DNS server playing up that directly accessing the IP address either via the address bar or the hosts.txt file would in theory bypass the DNS server and thus no problemo...?

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Fury on July 03, 2006, 10:22:19 am

Depends on how the server is configured, this type of configuration is rarely suitable in multi-domain setups. Also, all references in html-/php-code such as the forums are set to use the domain, they wouldn't work correctly even if you could access the forums via IP.

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Prophet on July 03, 2006, 11:45:13 am

You can always trust Fury to throw in a good technobabble... :p
When I direct my next SciFi series, he's going to be the science officer... ;)

Title: Re: Recent downtime
Post by: Fury on July 03, 2006, 11:56:49 am

Don't forget to hire a good number of redshirts.