Free Republic will be down shortly!

December 27, 2001 | Jim Robinson

[WIMom]

To: ALL

Just got a call from John. He is up in San Jose preparing for the move. The system will probably be coming down about two hours from now and it will probably be down for a couple hours. When it comes back up we will be on our new IP address which will be: 209.157.64.200

He has set the current DNS service to expire every hour, so it should not take too long for the new address to propagate out to all the name servers.

Don't forget to bookmark our contingency site: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/freerepublic

111 posted on 12/27/01 5:05 PM Central by Jim Robinson
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[meyer]

Best of luck to JimRob!! I need a drink!!

[Cicero]

Reminder to all Freepers to make a note of the new server address and check your HOST file in windows if you are using it.

[avg_freeper]

You don't have to.

The DNS looks at the www.freerepublic.com and figures out the numbers for you.

John is setting it up so that the DNS will catch it when it changes.

It should work just like before.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Its the end of the world as we know it...?

[Bahbah]

Arrrgh. No, no. I am sincere about this.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Type it in as a regular web address. Or clear your cache and let your browser find it.

[maxwellp]

Where will I go? What will I do?

[WIMom]

You should be able to access FR without any trouble. If you have trouble and find you can't get in, type

http://www.209.157.64.200

in the address area of your browser and you should be able to get into FR. After that, just rebookmark it as your home page, of course! You don't need to type the address until Jim let's us know via the Yahoo site that FR is up and running. I hope that's right.....

[ladyinred]

I am panicing with you! Still don't understand this changing IP stuff in my Mac! EEEEK!

[Lady Jag]

NO!

[Bahbah]

We're going to be left out in the cold. I'm melting, melting.

[umgud]

Does anyone have a link to "suicide hotline"

[Ligeia]

When FR comes back online, will it be the new or existing software?

[Fighting Irish]

bin laden did it.........he brought down america!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....

Oh, it's not the end of the world?

I knew that......

[Rain-maker]

Granny, just use the numbers in your address window after the http://

cut and paste:

http://209.157.64.200

[Bahbah]

What is a cache? What is a browser?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

[Focault's Pendulum]

I am panicing with you! Still don't understand this changing IP stuff in my Mac! EEEEK!

If your a Mac user...write down the I.P. Address on a piece of paper....tape it to your screen then press enter.

[pubmom]

Tears on my keyboard, pain in my heart!

[4TheFlag]

I guess I'm lost in this puter stuff, what will we need to do to get back on once it's up again, short explanation, PLEASE.....