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Posted on 03/25/2004 7:48:57 AM PST by general_re
DNS lookups failing for FR here - no such host. Apparently I'm not the only one, judging from a glance at the Yahoo FR board. Dunno if it's my ISP (Verizon) or what, but I had to manually edit the hosts file to get here. Presumably, if you can post, you're not having this problem, but there are more than a few people who can't post right now because of it...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: faq; server
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To: steveegg
We're waiting on GKG to press some buttons and turn us back on. But I wouldn't be surprised if this took hours on their part. :-( It could take DAYS - unless you result to trickery. The DNS system, unprompted, propagates rather slowly. The way I like to propagate a domain in the quickest manner is to use one of the many remote traceroute sites on the web. That forces a full lookup of the DNS record from, say, Germany, which then has a cascading effect across other DNS servers around the web.
Now, having said that, we should check into HOW this happened. Tin-foil hat stuff aside, DNS "poisoning" (e.g. inserting incorrect lookup data) is a real possbility - all other things considered.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:01:09 AM PST
by
GunnyB
(Once a Marine, Always a Marine)
To: general_re
Actions this morning:
1st. couldn't find Free Republic with my favorites selection.
2nd. located Free Repulic & saw reference to yahoo FR groups.
3rd. found info and changed FR DNS to 209.157.64.200.
4th. got to FR but could not log in.
5th. went to yahoo FR group. logged in there and found chat room.
6th. went to chat room and explained my prob.
7th. chatter gave me info regarding new DNS and change to inserting 209.157.64.200 www.freerepublic.com in host folder.
8th. did this and am now logged in & posting.
Now, a question...will this situation change and will it require further changes to maintain FR access?
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:01:40 AM PST
by
Khurkris
(Ranger On...)
To: steveegg
Thank you! It works!
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:02:10 AM PST
by
mathluv
(Protect my grandchildren's future. Vote for Bush/Cheney '04.)
To: GunnyB
John's already looking into how this happened.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:02:37 AM PST
by
steveegg
(New horror movie coming to CNNNBCCBSABC - "Me, Myself, and Theresa", brought to you by Heinz 57)
To: Khurkris
If you get laid fill us in.
Unless of course you are posting from your laptop from a Star Trek convention.
To: js1138; John Robinson
Second, change all the absolute links that are internal to FR to relative links, so once you get here using the IP, you can log on. From what I understand, most of the links here are already relative. The main sticking point was the login procedure was absolute and locked to freerepublic.com, but John reworked that.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:04:16 AM PST
by
steveegg
(New horror movie coming to CNNNBCCBSABC - "Me, Myself, and Theresa", brought to you by Heinz 57)
To: mathluv; John Robinson
Thank you! It works! Ping.
147
posted on
03/25/2004 11:04:42 AM PST
by
steveegg
(New horror movie coming to CNNNBCCBSABC - "Me, Myself, and Theresa", brought to you by Heinz 57)
To: Khurkris
If/when FR changes its IP address, your hosts file will need to be changed again to reflect the new address. I have no reason to believe that this will happen any time in the near future, but to be safe, once everything is back to normal, you can go back into the hosts file and remove the entry for www.freerepublic.com. That way, if it does change, your computer will automatically get the new IP address, rather than banging its head against a wall trying the old one. But as long as the IP address remains the same, you shouldn't have to do anything further.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:05:27 AM PST
by
general_re
(The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
To: Khurkris
Now, a question...will this situation change and will it require further changes to maintain FR access?The IP should hold for the foreseeable future, but if it does change, you will have to re-edit your hosts file.
FR should change its login script so you can login using the IP address.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:06:12 AM PST
by
js1138
To: mystery-ak
Me too! I finally got here!
To: js1138
They Did.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:06:40 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: general_re
Thanx for all of your help by way of a third party....xs....
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:07:05 AM PST
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
To: Khurkris
I knew there was a chat group on yahoo, but did not know how to get there. I went to Free Dominion, and found a link there. Thanks, Free Dominion!
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:07:20 AM PST
by
mathluv
(Protect my grandchildren's future. Vote for Bush/Cheney '04.)
To: general_re
Hi! Glad I found this backdoor entry to FR. I know my IP address. What should I do to restore my link to FR?
Thanks!
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:07:25 AM PST
by
zook
To: steveegg
Sometimes ordinary coding practices jump up and bite you.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:08:30 AM PST
by
js1138
To: js1138
FR should change its login script so you can login using the IP address. Actually, John did just that.
156
posted on
03/25/2004 11:08:56 AM PST
by
steveegg
(New horror movie coming to CNNNBCCBSABC - "Me, Myself, and Theresa", brought to you by Heinz 57)
To: hobbes1
Ah, ha! I was wondering who this mysterious proxy questioner was ;)
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:09:20 AM PST
by
general_re
(The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
To: steveegg
I followed a link that someone on the Yahoo page posted and then went to log in, and it worked. The person that posted the link said that it would not let him log in.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:13:33 AM PST
by
Eva
To: Bluntpoint
thank you for sharing that with us.
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:13:54 AM PST
by
Khurkris
(Ranger On...)
To: Sloth
bookmark this thread
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posted on
03/25/2004 11:14:05 AM PST
by
Eva
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