Boards down??

catocom

catocom

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Were OTC, and Xibase both down most of the day
yesterday, or was it just my connection??(
 
host had a dns server problem. they are looking into upgrading soon. Lets pray they do.
 
heh, so did yesterday count as the entire the .3% downtime per year?? how does a dns problem on their end cause the site to be inaccessible when i can get resolution from another dns server? i'm just curious because i thought the point of decentralized dns servers was so that the failure some systems would not cripple functionality. Just curious, and glad to spewing non-sense yet again. :headbang:
 
tommyj27,
i think it amounts to 4 hours total a month. Which at this point we are very close.
The dns im not sure. The weird thing is that we actually use 2 differen dns servers a main and a backup so this is never (in theory) supposed to happen.
So much for that theory.
 
i'm just very interested in network problems. last night i could resolve otcentral.com from the root servers at certain points and not with my normal dns server. At other points it was vice versa and I could ping otc and phantasy with massive response times (1000+ms) and about 30% packet loss.
 
Some DNS servers cache domain names. Others don't, and fetch their results directly from the DNS servers on record. In this case, the DNS servers were down, so the sites were inaccessible to anyone whose ISP didn't cache DNS results. In any case, I hope the DNS servers are upgraded soon, because it's getting a bit ridiculous, this problem is starting to happen almost on a weekly basis.
 
What is the command to flush the dns cache on a 2k machine? I remember there is something like this, but can't remember what it is. Perhaps that is my problem with Google.
 
I don't think so. I don't remember where I read it from but I heard stopping it manually tells it to clear the cache. It fixed it for me back when we first switched over to PWH.
 
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