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Thread ID: 135237 2013-10-10 19:22:00 Can anyone get on the other forum yet? Speedy Gonzales (78) PC World Chat
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1355763 2013-10-11 23:17:00 I'm just pissed that why do people change things when they are working fine -- cant help but fiddle,then most of time things stuff up in one way or another.


Because it's hosted for free and was costing me money. I have moved it to a different server that won't cost me as much money.
The community is welcome to organise free hosting elsewhere if they wish however I would note that this is the first lot of outages since the site started. Uptime has been 100%​ until now.
Dannz (1668)
1355764 2013-10-11 23:23:00 Same here Wainui. In defence of Clear/Vodafail it is only the one site that is causing problems for me so I’ll forgive them this time. ;)

But I really do think it is time to introduce Public Floggings for those who fix things that aren’t broken. :D

The issue is broken DNS servers that don't respect the TTLs, as I think was stated above.

Try this service: www.kloth.net

The fact that changing your DNS makes it work shows that this is what is happening, and why it is only broken for some people.
Dannz (1668)
1355765 2013-10-11 23:27:00 Okies............. i think some peeps need to take a deep breath and step away from the machines......... no need to be grumpy when the weather is dum and wind blows ya off ya feet........ just go outside for a minute or too and then you might appreciate the computer chair a wee bit more....... :p

no offense intended,
nobody wants square eyes now do we.... there is another life outside some where if you want to find it :p

have a great day all :)
beetle (243)
1355766 2013-10-11 23:29:00 Just did, for a while there it was all over the place giving different IP Addresses, seems to have settled down now to 198.50.154.31 which is


Host lithium.failover.co.nz
Location US US, United States
City Newark, NJ 07102
Organization OVH Systems
ISP OVH Systemsat

one stage it was 23.92.88.67, then timing out or couldn't be found So dont know what was going on ? Maybe it wasn't Telstra at all, maybe some place over seas was playing silly buggers ?
wainuitech (129)
1355767 2013-10-11 23:30:00 23.92.88.67 is the correct address and has been set since about 11:30pm last night.

198.50.154.31 is the old one. I have setup a NAT rule to forward port 80 to stop people whinging, but that server will be offline on Monday. Hopefully Telstra and OpenDNS have sorted themselves out by then!
Dannz (1668)
1355768 2013-10-11 23:35:00 Something is still not quite right ( just advising) -- the address, if you type it in http://23.92.88.67 leads to a photo site / Blog if you ping www.pcforums.co.nz it still comes back as 198.50.154.31 Ew and now opens from that Address. wainuitech (129)
1355769 2013-10-11 23:40:00 Of course it does, it's a shared IP. You have to use the hostname so the server knows which site to show you.

The following public DNS servers all agree that the IP is what it should be (And is what is set in the authoritative DNS)



C:\Users\dan>nslookup pcforums.co.nz 8.8.8.8
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: pcforums.co.nz
Address: 23.92.88.67


C:\Users\dan>



C:\Users\dan>nslookup pcforums.co.nz 156.154.70.1
Server: rdns1.ultradns.net
Address: 156.154.70.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: pcforums.co.nz
Address: 23.92.88.67


C:\Users\dan>




C:\Users\dan>nslookup pcforums.co.nz 81.218.119.11
Server: UnKnown
Address: 81.218.119.11

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: pcforums.co.nz
Address: 23.92.88.67


C:\Users\dan>
Dannz (1668)
1355770 2013-10-11 23:44:00 The issue is broken DNS servers that don't respect the TTLs, as I think was stated above.

Try this service: www.kloth.net

The fact that changing your DNS makes it work shows that this is what is happening, and why it is only broken for some people.

Not sure what I should have got Dan but here's a screenshot (maybe)

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B.M. (505)
1355771 2013-10-11 23:45:00 Yep that's what it should be saying :) Dannz (1668)
1355772 2013-10-11 23:58:00 Just for fun I thought I'd chase down the address 23.92.88.67 and I wind up at Becky's place. :o

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B.M. (505)
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