Re: [IRCA] Web site not working. Any news?

[Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pinging topazdesigns.com times out to IP 74.104.114.105
   
  Pinging www.topazdesigns.com is fine at 74.104.55.19
   
  These were done at 1400 PST.  I don't know how long it takes for any given DNS server to get updates, but the two are different at this point.  From what you're saying, the first one should end up pointing to the IP of the second one at some point.
   
  Mike

Barry McLarnon <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  On Friday 12 January 2007 16:15, Michael Hawkins wrote:
> The URL is http://www.topazdesigns.com/ambc.  People try to use shortcuts
> for URLs without realizing that one does not necessarily equal the other.
>  In this case, they definitely don't as one is the new and the other is the
> old.

Actually, that's not the case - www.topazdesigns.com is just an alias (CNAME 
for the DNS cognoscenti) for topazdesigns.com, and both should resolve to the 
same address. If you're getting different results for the two names, that's 
peculiar.

This is one of the perils of running a website on the cheap - my ISP may 
change the IP address suddenly, and without notice. I have the DNS records 
set up such that when a change occurs, the old info should expire from 
nameserver caches and be replaced within 3 hours... but apparently a lot of 
ISP nameservers override this and keep the old info for 2 days or more.

Nice to know the site was missed, anyway... :-)

Barry

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Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON

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