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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 04/09/2006 : 19:38:47
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On Tuesday, April 11th, 2006, in the early morning hours here in the U.S., the SFN's Internet Service Provider is going to be moving our Web site to a new server. They tell us that this will necessitate changing our Web site's IP address, so the change may take some time to "percolate" through the Internet's Name Servers. Though our ISP isn't saying so, I imagine this sort of switch may involve the standard "up to 48 hours" for the IP address changes to go through to most name servers worldwide.
In other words, if the SFN vanishes on Tuesday morning (US time), then keep trying. If you're still having problems after Thursday morning, send an email to atomic@skepticfriends.org and/or davew@skepticfriends.org and we'll see if we can help. (Note those email addresses now, just in case.)
Allow us, the staff of the SFN, to apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you, our members.
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- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2006 : 20:47:13 [Permalink]
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What are the chances of an opt-in email notification of the new IP address once it is known?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2006 : 21:35:00 [Permalink]
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John, if all you do is go to www.skepticfriends.org to get here, then you shouldn't need to know the IP address unless your DNS servers are slow to get the new IP address themselves. But if you, like me, start twitching from withdrawal if you don't get to see the SFN pages every 15 minutes or so, I'd suggest sending an email to @tomic (at his email addy previously posted) and beg him to send you the IP as soon as he knows it.
By the way, on a personal note, every time I've set up a new IP address, the DNS servers I go through have figured it out in just a few hours. The 48-hour figure is typically cited as "worst case." |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
4607 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2006 : 22:25:19 [Permalink]
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This should be seamless folks. That is, no one should even notice the change unless they habitually ping domains. I only sent Dave & David an email as a heads up in case something goes wrong as happened with one site I worked on recently. Only that was a mistake by the hosting company that we had fixed as soon as the company was told to get on it.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2006 : 23:46:07 [Permalink]
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| Message duly noted. No worries, mates. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2006 : 17:22:50 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Ricky
Well now this is weird. I pinged the sfn from my home computer, and I got no response. Then I pinged it from a computer in my cs lab:
As you say, ping's aren't always responded to, although SFN does respond from my current location. Maybe a trace route would be more informative, it has the added bonus of telling you what your DNS servers currently believe the domain should be resolved to. If it's still the old IP address after the change, you know there are update issues.
Here's mine as it stands pre-change.
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Somewhere :)
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms Somewhere else ;)
3 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms riv1-pos4-7.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.192.81]
4 15 ms 8 ms 9 ms mas1-ge10-1.gw.optusnet.com.au [211.29.129.185]
5 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms mas3-ge9.gw.optusnet.com.au [211.29.129.210]
6 164 ms 166 ms 248 ms 203.208.148.157
7 164 ms 203 ms 164 ms ge-0-3-0.plapx-ar1.ix.singtel.com [203.208.168.122]
8 164 ms 163 ms 163 ms pax-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.1.1]
9 163 ms 163 ms 163 ms svl-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.205.29]
10 198 ms 183 ms 184 ms tmp-core-01.inet.qwest.net [67.14.1.146]
11 185 ms 186 ms 186 ms phv-edge-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.129.86]
12 207 ms 185 ms 185 ms 67.131.24.222
13 186 ms 184 ms 185 ms sf-shared-extgate.crystaltech.com [216.119.107.1]
14 185 ms 186 ms 188 ms www.skepticfriends.org [216.119.101.244]
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2006 : 21:42:34 [Permalink]
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Not even a router, Ricky?
On another note, I'd like to apologize for maybe being a bit too worried about what might happen later on this morning. That is, of course, if you all get to see this messag)*W&OWg9yhdUGIU&WT(&^@&F@&^R@Q*ER
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2006 : 07:07:08 [Permalink]
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| All Clear! So far everything seems to be working fine... |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
4607 Posts |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2006 : 23:25:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by @tomic
Permissions will have changed so there will be some backend issues relating to file uploads. The move is complete, though. I hope we gain some performance from this.
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Congrats, guys. What I'm sure was a big ordeal for you all seemed seemless to me, and that's about the best compliment I can think to give.
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