March 08, 2008

Good job, Pixy!

If you noticed odd things happening with mee.nu blogs this morning, it's because there was a foul-up at the hosting company. "mee.nu" was making it to the right server, but the sub-domain interpretation (e.g. finding "chizumatic" inside mee.nu) wasn't working.

Pixy noticed it before I did; he was right on the case, and got it all straightened out in about an hour -- which, considering the hosting company is in Texas and Pixy is in Australia, is pretty damned good.

Thank you for your hard work, Pixy.

UPDATE: Correction: the "mee.nu" domain record itself was corrupt, and got propagated around the internet. The correct one has now been propagated, but it may take a few hours to reach every name server.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 12:51 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 Yeah, but when I try to access Pixy's site, I still get a "DOMAIN TAKEN" page, whatever the hey that is, and not his page.

http://atomicfungus.mee.nu is still working tho.  Weird.

Posted by: atomic_fungus at March 08, 2008 12:54 PM (XeZzr)

2 Yeah, that "name taken" was the place holder that the incorrect name record pointed to.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 08, 2008 01:08 PM (+rSRq)

3 In fact, it was worse than that.

The domain registry actually lost the DNS delegation for mee.nu. So neither the main domain nor any mee.nu subdomain was pointing anywhere, and you ended up at the default page supplied by the registry (which as you saw just informs you that someone owns that domain).

Unless, of course, someone at your ISP had visited a given mee.nu site in the past few hours, in which case they'd have a cached copy of the DNS info. Of course, if someone at your ISP visited a given mee.nu site while things were screwed up, that ISP now has a cached copy of the screwed up info.  And the screwed up settings had a looong TTL (but hopefully a short refresh).

Bleh.  But a lot less bleh than it could have been; I was expecting this to last all day.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 08, 2008 01:12 PM (PiXy!)

4 Ah, I see you've updated the post even before I could post that comment.  Never mind.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 08, 2008 01:14 PM (PiXy!)

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