Elliot Wilen ([info]ewilen) wrote,
@ 2007-02-13 12:08:00
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problems with theRPGsite
theRPGsite is having some DNS problems due to a screwup in transferring the domain name. It looks to be temporary, though. Explanation at http://www.xanga.com/RPGpundit/570093678/item.html

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[info]tcpip
2007-02-13 11:15 pm UTC (link)

People who don't understand DNS should either get someone else to do it or learn how it works. IMHO.

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[info]ewilen
2007-02-14 12:40 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I don't know the exact problem. Pundit, bless him, is a hoary old Luddite, but how hard is it to design a web interface that walks you through setting up an A record? Supposedly it's been fixed but if so, the current delay looks to me like it's at the DNS provider, as opposed to just propagation lag.

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[info]tcpip
2007-02-14 12:57 am UTC (link)

Ah, that's different then.

Propagation lags are, of course, the norm, but clients are still surprised that when they're told their site might be down for 0-72 hours depending when in the world people are accessing it from.

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[info]ewilen
2007-02-14 01:06 am UTC (link)
oops, see below

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Here's why I think it's more than propagation lag
[info]ewilen
2007-02-14 01:05 am UTC (link)
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/traversal.ch?domain=therpgsite.com&type=A

Basically, the DNS servers listed in WHOIS are denying that they're authoritative.

I can't believe Godaddy doesn't have a simple template that creates a zone file for you...so either Pundit's help have made a mistake while trying to write one by hand or godaddy is messing up somehow.

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Re: Here's why I think it's more than propagation lag
[info]animalball
2007-02-14 03:28 pm UTC (link)
I had a similar problem when I started up animalball. The problem is getting your host to coordinate with your domain registry-- I had a two day lag before they figured it out because I'm as ignorant to these things as Pundit. What I'm worried about for Pundit is that godaddy is such a service poor site that even figuring out what the problem is may take a couple of days. Do we know who's hosting the site?

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Looks like everything is okay now
[info]ewilen
2007-02-14 08:37 pm UTC (link)
The problem was that the DNS servers listed in the registration at godaddy were NS1.GO180.NET and NS2.GO180.NET. Those servers had no idea who therpgsite.com was. Now that the registration info has been updated to use secureserver.net's servers, things are better.

I think the residual problems will clear up as DNS info propagates.

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Re: Looks like everything is okay now
[info]animalball
2007-02-15 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it works for me at work, but not at home (as of this morning).

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