Anyone having intermittent problems seeing askaboutmoney?

Brendan Burgess

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If you can read this you are looking at the new site hosted by Nimbus.

However,for a while this morning I was getting the message "The site is down while we are doing essential maintenance" which means that I was looking at the old hosting site , Global Gold.

Although the migration was completed at around 15.15 yesterday, I could not see the new location until at least 18.30 (I left my house at 18.30 and came back at 22.00 when I could see it)

Others were seeing it because there was active posting from around 15.30.

Do some ISPs not update the name servers as promptly as others?
 
For what it's worth open a command shell (http://www.c3scripts.com/tutorials/msdos/open-window.html) and run the following commands (the bits in red are what you type in):

Code: 
C:\>[COLOR=Red]ping www.askaboutmoney.com[/COLOR]

Pinging www.askaboutmoney.com [176.56.61.105] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=50
Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=50
Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=50
Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 176.56.61.105:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 167ms, Maximum = 168ms, Average = 167ms

C:\>[COLOR=Red]nslookup[/COLOR]
Default Server:  some-hostname
Address:  x.x.x.x

> [COLOR=Red]www.askaboutmoney.com[/COLOR]
Server:  some-hostname
Address:  x.x.x.x

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.askaboutmoney.com
Address:  176.56.61.105

>
 
Brendan Burgess said:
OK, I have done that. But what is it telling me?

Default server: dns1.eircom.net
address 159.134.0.1

> www.askaboutmoney.com Server: some-hostname Address: 159.134.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.askaboutmoney.com Address: 176.56.61.105
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It's telling me that www.askaboutmoney.com is resolving to the correct/new IP address (176.56.61.105 - assuming that the old site was on a different server/IP address). As such it seems odd that you don't get the same results (i.e. the new site) as I do. Maybe something is cached on your PC or at your ISP? Doesn't explain why it worked for a while last night/this morning but not now though...
 
I'm having a slightly funny problem in that:

Normally I click on "today's posts" and have a look at new posts in every forum rather than going into each one separately but I just noticed that when I checked half an hour ago there were posts which had been made early this morning but hadn't been there when I checked at 10am-ish.

Also, there was a post by Brendan about S Quinn's attempt to get bankruptcy in NI on page 3 of this thread, then I went to page 2 and when I got back to page 3 Brendan's post had been replaced by one by Wishes. Of course it is possible Brendan deleted his post himself.
 
ClubMan said:
It's telling me that www.askaboutmoney.com is resolving to the correct/new IP address (176.56.61.105 - assuming that the old site was on a different server/IP address). As such it seems odd that you don't get the same results (i.e. the new site) as I do. Maybe something is cached on your PC or at your ISP? Doesn't explain why it worked for a while last night/this morning but not now though...
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Nope, Brendan's output shows the same 176.x.x.x server address as your output. The first address he shows is the eircom DNS server.
 
Working fine.

Pinging www.askaboutmoney.com [176.56.61.105] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=55
Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55
Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=55
Reply from 176.56.61.105: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55
Ping statistics for 176.56.61.105:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 20ms, Average = 18ms
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The Pingtimes from clubman were a bit high .Or is he in another country?
 
MugsGame said:
Nope, Brendan's output shows the same 176.x.x.x server address as your output. The first address he shows is the eircom DNS server.
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Sorry - that's what I meant - we both got the same IP address but for some reason I see the new site while Brendan sees the old one which to me suggests some caching issue at his end?
 
ClubMan said:
You need to enable Quick Edit Mode in the command shell - never understood why this was not enabled by default and didn't use the normal Windows Ctrl-C/V commands...
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Alternatively, right-click, Select All and hit return - everything will be copied for you to paste it where you want.
 
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