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FR DNS problems...
today | self

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: Sir_Ed; ladyinred
Sorry, I don't know where the hosts file resides on Mac. Try search?

Anyway, you are logged in somehow because you are posting. :))
341 posted on 03/25/2004 4:04:51 PM PST by Tolik
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To: steveegg
ICANN is dragging their "brains" on this one (little surprise).

ICANN isn't the bad guy in the FR/DNS-disappear matter. I know you can use yor brain to get to the bottom of it.

342 posted on 03/25/2004 4:04:59 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: general_re
I'm Baaaack ...........
343 posted on 03/25/2004 4:05:59 PM PST by clamper1797 (Conservative by nature ... Republican in Spirit ... Patriot by Heart ... and Anti Liberal BY GOD)
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To: ladyinred
Mine is better today, but I am going to continue to stay logged on to FR and see how my computer acts, I was just having trouble with all my programs Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook and My Documents I was ready to put the entire problems on Adelphia Cable..glad I waited...

Wht did we loose DNS in the first place?
344 posted on 03/25/2004 4:06:29 PM PST by missyme
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To: Cboldt
ICANN isn't the bad guy in the FR/DNS-disappear matter. I know you can use yor brain to get to the bottom of it.

Two questions; who runs the DNS servers, and how often do they get updated? We got back into good standing with GKG about 1 pm Central, so the holdup in being able to use freerepublic.com as the address would either be that the DNS servers haven't yet been scheduled to update or whoever is running them has decided not to include us.

346 posted on 03/25/2004 4:17:01 PM PST by steveegg (It takes more than just a bit of double-secret probation to keep a good website down)
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To: steveegg
We need to send out to our international friends who may not automatically look to yahoo (and certainly not DU) for clues. Swarthyguy, AmericaninTokyo, MadTomRackham, on and on.

I realize the DNS entries will be corrected soon, but we don't want FReeper withdrawal bridge-jumping on our conscience:)

347 posted on 03/25/2004 4:17:10 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Publius6961
Of course I could not find my notes about alternate ways to get in or to go to Yahoo groups, so it's been withdrawal time all day today. I hate it when that happens.

I had the same problem. Then I looked up the domain registration and used one of the name server addresses at the bottom of the listing (NS.ROBINSON-DEFEHR.COM) with nslookup.exe to find the IP:

C:\>nslookup
Default Server:  172.31.1.2
Address:  172.31.1.2

> server NS.ROBINSON-DEFEHR.COM
Default Server:  NS.ROBINSON-DEFEHR.COM
Address:  209.157.64.254

> freerepublic.com
Server:  NS.ROBINSON-DEFEHR.COM
Address:  209.157.64.254

Name:    freerepublic.com
Address:  209.157.64.200

> exit

C:\>
I used http://gandi.net/whois?l=EN to find the domain registration (cheese eating domain lookup monkey).

The normal lookup is still failing for me.

348 posted on 03/25/2004 4:17:32 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: steveegg
Sorry Steve......

The requested document does not exist on this server.


Okay
349 posted on 03/25/2004 4:17:54 PM PST by justshe (Do you trust a Democrat to protect America?)
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To: steveegg
Finally got back in -- but via a Google search for "freerepublic backup site yahoo" ... and http://209.157.64.200/ worked, but not the site name. The withdrawal side-effects have been interesting.

I've been suspecting the troll, too.

350 posted on 03/25/2004 4:18:55 PM PST by alancarp (NASCAR: Where everything's made up and the points don't matter.)
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To: txflake; All
"We need to send out to our international friends who may not automatically look to yahoo (and certainly not DU) for clues. Swarthyguy, AmericaninTokyo, MadTomRackham, on and on."

FWIW, I use the forum at Free Dominion...

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=14
Guest Room for Freepers

...and got beaten to the punch:

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21889
FR Down today?
351 posted on 03/25/2004 4:20:51 PM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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To: alancarp
some of us made it but hope the problem is fixed soon. Few people know how to find the domain.


352 posted on 03/25/2004 4:21:55 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn
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To: justshe
'Twas an experiment. I thought I could get it to work, but I was mistaken. Guess any cross-thread links are going to have to use the IP address for a while.
353 posted on 03/25/2004 4:24:49 PM PST by steveegg (It takes more than just a bit of double-secret probation to keep a good website down)
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To: general_re

354 posted on 03/25/2004 4:27:56 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Verily, I am the most misunderstood of freepers.)
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To: general_re
If you ever have trouble getting in, do a good search under your FR name and then click on the link that comes up. Works most of the time for me. That is how I got in today...after I checked to make sure I was logged in :)
355 posted on 03/25/2004 4:28:54 PM PST by BJungNan
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To: ladyinred; John Robinson
Perhaps John should get Richard Clarke to investigate...see if it's a cyber security issue. Oh, wait...he's busy hawking his "Against All Bushes" book.
356 posted on 03/25/2004 4:30:17 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: Sir_Ed
Maybe by tomorrow it'll back to normal.

I was referring the poster's remarks about slowness, etc, over the past few days.
357 posted on 03/25/2004 4:30:31 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: BJungNan
This whole thing stinks! It reeks!

Was it deliberate!
358 posted on 03/25/2004 4:31:06 PM PST by OpusatFR (Sure they want to tone down the rhetoric. We are winning.)
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To: txflake
We need to send out to our international friends who may not automatically look to yahoo (and certainly not DU) for clues. Swarthyguy, AmericaninTokyo, MadTomRackham, on and on.

Good thought; the question is, how. Most of them don't supply their e-mail addresses on their profile page for good reason.

359 posted on 03/25/2004 4:34:52 PM PST by steveegg (It takes more than just a bit of double-secret probation to keep a good website down)
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To: steveegg
Thru personal connects? I'm diggin thru email to try to get this out.
360 posted on 03/25/2004 4:37:48 PM PST by txhurl
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