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FR DNS problems...
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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
I'm neither good looking nor photogenic.

IMHO, neither am I. Why don't you let me be the judge (of you, that is)?
701 posted on 03/26/2004 4:27:57 AM PST by KangarooJacqui (The Internet - it's a jungle out there... *brushes vines away from screen*)
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To: Jim Noble
Do I need to clear out the old cookies for DNS to work, or does it just need more time?

Based on my experiments of manually editing my hosts file to get freerepublic.com back working (how I first got back here yesterday before JohnRob fixed the IP cookie issue), you won't need to clear out the old logon cookie.

702 posted on 03/26/2004 4:32:21 AM 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: kenth
Pennsylvania having problems via DirectWay.
703 posted on 03/26/2004 4:34:43 AM PST by oldironsides
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To: steveegg
Testing pager.
704 posted on 03/26/2004 4:43:43 AM 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; Jim Robinson
I'll bet that this has already been said, but I don't fancy reading all 700+ posts to find out ;-). Why don't you switch to one of the big, reputable (reliable?) registrars. FWIW, My company's been registered with the original, Network Solutions for over 10 years with no problems anywhere near the magnitude of having the routing turned off completely "by accident." They might charge more, but I opine that the community here would gladly pitch in to make up the difference.
705 posted on 03/26/2004 4:46:20 AM PST by wysiwyg (What parts of "right of the people" and "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?)
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To: sweetliberty
My pager isn't working at all!

IP-based pager semi-fix - this will detach the pager, make at least "New State Messages" work (though apparently not "New Messages to You") and send you back to the start of this thread.

706 posted on 03/26/2004 4:47:03 AM 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: bogdanPolska12
So that what caused it?
707 posted on 03/26/2004 4:59:58 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: bogdanPolska12
There has been DNS denial attack on major DNS root servers.

I haven't seen anything about that here.

708 posted on 03/26/2004 5:05:43 AM PST by general_re (The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
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To: general_re
I made it. I'm in. I'm in...
709 posted on 03/26/2004 5:12:36 AM PST by wallcrawlr
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To: bogdanPolska12
There has been DNS denial attack on major DNS root servers. Some of major web sites are down still ....some are not effected.

It looks like attacks are going in channel mode, which means one server receives attack and spreads out to other servers.

Interesting. From about 2pm yesterday until at least 3am this morning I had hugh problems logging onto AOL. This morning it works fine. :knocking wood:

-Eric

710 posted on 03/26/2004 5:13:10 AM PST by E Rocc (Ich bein un Clinton Hasser)
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To: xzins
Why do I keep getting the following on my screen, but when I go to FreeRepublic.file I do not?

"freerepublic.file"? Hmmmm.

711 posted on 03/26/2004 5:13:22 AM PST by general_re (The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
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To: general_re
I meant "info"

Sorry.

712 posted on 03/26/2004 5:19:18 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army and Proud of It!)
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To: wallcrawlr
And wallcrawlr is SAFE! Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaack.
713 posted on 03/26/2004 5:19:47 AM 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: xzins
Ah. Threw me a curveball, did you? ;)

Anyway, that .info URL works because John specifically set it up in the aftermath of this thing to be a separate domain registration that still points back to freerepublic. So becase it's a separate record, it's not affected by any problems that might strike the main FR record, nor do any problems with it affect www.freerepublic.com. All freerepublic.info does right now is serve up the same website as www.freerepublic.com.

Basically, it's a means of redundancy at the moment, although the way I read it, eventually freerepublic.info will be devoted to status information for www.freerepublic.com - i.e., in the future, if you're having problems with FR, you'll be able to go to www.freerepublic.info to find out what the problem is, or if it's something unique to you, or whatever.

714 posted on 03/26/2004 5:27:42 AM PST by general_re (The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
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To: Jim Noble
As for when we're back up, the best answer is from general_re - whenever your ISP's DNS server gets updated. Personally, I think ICANN is slow-boat-to-Red-Chinaing this based on essentially no one has goten the .com addy working without creating their own personal DNS entry.
715 posted on 03/26/2004 5:27:50 AM 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
I'm back? Wheeeeeewww -
716 posted on 03/26/2004 5:30:28 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: js1138
Didn't CNN or some major site temporarily lose their email this way?

I know maybe a year or two ago, Microsoft's Hotmail was down for about half a day simply because someone at Microsoft forgot to renew the domain name. A Hotmail customer actually paid it himself and got the service started again. I think he got a $500 reward from Microsoft. I'm telling this from memory so some or all of this may be incorrect.

717 posted on 03/26/2004 5:30:50 AM PST by tdadams (If there were no problems, politicians would have to invent them... wait, they already do.)
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To: Cboldt
The domain is registered until September 2006. There is no reason to call on it in March 2004. THe mistake relating to one piece of contact information is a bogus excuse. This was deliberate action by somebody.

I'm inclined to agree. Some leftist at the registrar was probably gloating to himself that he could shut down Free Republic for a day or two.

718 posted on 03/26/2004 5:33:46 AM PST by tdadams (If there were no problems, politicians would have to invent them... wait, they already do.)
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To: tdadams
I know maybe a year or two ago, Microsoft's Hotmail was down for about half a day simply because someone at Microsoft forgot to renew the domain name. A Hotmail customer actually paid it himself and got the service started again. I think he got a $500 reward from Microsoft. I'm telling this from memory so some or all of this may be incorrect.

washpost.com went unpaid. That addy was used for e-mail, not to serve web-pages (washingtonpost.com is the domain that serves web pages)

I don't recall the MS Hotmail event, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

719 posted on 03/26/2004 5:34:18 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: tdadams
ping
720 posted on 03/26/2004 5:39:41 AM PST by kinsman redeemer
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