Hi everyone.
I've now transferred all DNS functions from our old hosting provider to our new servers.
This means that the problems some users were having should now stop.
It also means that I can stop paying for the old servers, which will be a great relief to my wallet this holiday season.
It also means something very important. When we originally migrated to the old servers (from the old old server) and had the DNS trouble, I suggested that, as a workaround, people could use the mu.nu servers as their DNS servers.
But after the end of November, those servers will no longer be available.
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IF YOU CHANGED YOUR DNS SETTINGS SO THAT YOU COULD REACH MU.NU, YOU MUST CHANGE IT BACK AGAIN BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH. OTHERWISE, YOUR INTERNET ACCESS WILL STOP WORKING. NOT JUST TO MU.NU; YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ANYWHERE!
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I'd suggest you leave it for a day or so while we make sure that the new DNS settings are working well, and then set it back to what it was originally. Check with your ISP if you aren't sure.
If you have any questions, post them here, or email me at andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net.
And now, back to the War on Spam...
Oh yeah: One of our servers, Nabiki, will be going offline for up to two hours on Tuesday 21 November, between 5am and 7am CST, while our hosting company works on their power distribution. This will take out Ace and the Jawas, a couple of forums, and the Movable Type 2.x database. (Oh, and my blog. ;)) Your blogs will still be readable, but posting and commenting won't work during that time.
Posted by Pixy Misa at November 19, 2006 01:45 AMwhat DNS SHOULD we point to? how does the DNS affect ability to get on to the internet? Suggestions?
Posted by GM Roper at November 19, 2006 07:31 PMIf you are using your ISP's DNS, that's fine.
If you are using 69.72.215.218 and 69.72.215.226 (the old mu.nu servers), you need to change it.
DNS is what converts names (like munuviana.mu.nu) to IP addresses (like 208.101.63.192). If you don't have a working DNS server, then you can't get anywhere.
Posted by Pixy Misa at November 19, 2006 09:30 PMmy http://gmroper.com is registered through godaddy per your suggestion I believe. it is pointing to NS.mu.nu and ns2.mu.nu is that OK?
I'm not sure who http://gmroper.mu.nu is pointing to unless it is ok where it is and my IPS is via roadrunner and I don't recall changing anything on it...
Am I ok as far as you know?
Posted by GM Roper at November 19, 2006 11:25 PMYep, that's all fine.
I should have explained a bit better.
Some people needed to change the DNS settings on their home PCs just to be able to reach mu.nu, because of... well, I don't know why, but it started happening when we moved from ServerMatrix to DedicatedNow back in 2005.
If people still have those settings on their PCs, then their internet access will stop working after the end of November. It was only ever meant as a temporary workaround, but there's nothing more permanent than a temporary workaround...
Posted by Pixy Misa at November 20, 2006 02:09 AMWhat's all this DNS nonsense and whycome my e-maqail bnotification ain't working?
Posted by Mark at November 20, 2006 02:01 PMi'm with mark, me no speaky dns.
also, my comment email is back on but my comment box is all buggered up. is that fix already in the making for 7 am?
Posted by shoe at November 21, 2006 01:10 PMI'll explain some more in the morning.
I'm not sure what's happened to your comment box, but it's definitely unrelated. I'll have to take a look-see.
Posted by Pixy Misa at November 21, 2006 01:34 PM