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26 March 2007

WOOT THE FILTER IS BACK →[More:] That is all.

post by: kyleg at: 02:40 | 20 comments

WHAT, YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THE CHAT???

posted by mudpuppie 26 March | 02:41

I still don't see it. I still see...
"Metafilter is back online, but you're still hitting the old server. In the next few hours you should end up on the new server."

9:48 CET

I guess I'll work.

posted by chillmost 26 March | 02:48

If your DNS is not resolved and you're not patient, try 74.53.68.130 instead of the URL.

posted by wendell 26 March | 02:54

OK, I posted this down in the MEFI DOWN FER A BIT YET thread below, but here's a bump, for those interested:

"www.metafilter.com actually resolves on 74.53.68.130 now, for those that are interested. Unfortunately, the TTL on the nameservers is still over 12 hours long, and the aliases for AskMe and other subdomains haven't been pointed at 74.53.68.130 on NS1.EOD.COM or his other authoritative name servers, so lotsa luck seeing the site as anything like normally functional, for awhile. Why in the world he's handling DNS like this, is something known only to the mathowie.

Type http://74.53.68.130 in your browser URL bar, if you need a comfort fix from the familiar Blue page..."
posted by paulsc 26 March | 02:48

posted by paulsc 26 March | 02:55

Going via IP address doesn't work for me either. *cry* it hates me.

posted by Phire 26 March | 03:03

Mmmm.... Actually, more probing with nslookup now shows ask.metafilter.com resolving to 74.53.68.130 too, from NS1.EOD.COM

posted by paulsc 26 March | 03:03

Yeah, I am so impatient that I futzed with the hosts file. I need my fix!

posted by kyleg 26 March | 03:08

All the sub-domain aliases can apparently be resolved to 74.53.68.130 from NS1.EOD.COM, but ask, metatalk, and music still seem to be flipped over to the old server. On-site links to projects and jobs work. kyleg stuck a post up on the Blue for 26th already.

posted by paulsc 26 March | 03:20

IP address doesn't work either.

It's getting hard to look busy.

posted by chillmost 26 March | 03:22

It all seems to be working now. People on Windows 2k/XP clients might benefit from flushing their local DNS caches manually. In a command window, type ipconfig /flushdns to get rid of any local cached DNS entries. Then do nslookup www.metafilter.com NS1.EOD.COM to force lookups from the authorative name servers for metafilter.com

posted by paulsc 26 March | 03:36

God bless sudo lookupd -flushcache!

posted by chrismear 26 March | 03:36

Gah. Stuck with old DNS, and paulsc's solution does nothing. Blood ballsacks.

posted by cortex 26 March | 05:22

Though w3m through a shell account will do me. Go text browsers!

posted by cortex 26 March | 05:25

Could be a couple of things, cortex. Type ipconfig /displaydns to see a list of all locally cached DNS entries on your Windows 2K/XP machine. If you see old entries for the metafilter.com domain, you're being fed these values from whereever you get your local DNS (probably your ISP's DNS servers). You could point at OpenDNS, which seems to have updated, or you could add manual entries in your local hosts file, for the time being.

posted by paulsc 26 March | 05:35

like cortex, I can only see the blue in my green on black text browser. Feels kinda wrong.

posted by dabitch 26 March | 07:14

Tried paulsc's thing (learned how to get a command window, w00t!), but still no MeFi. My life is a meaningless void.

posted by languagehat 26 March | 08:04

This is probably good for me. In a day or two - maybe even sometime tomorrow, I'll have no internet at all for days. I will dissolve into a trembly little puddle on the floor.

posted by taz 26 March | 08:11

And me without a spoon!

posted by trondant 26 March | 08:48

*gets a straw*

posted by dg 26 March | 17:09

I can't shake the feeling that everyone's there and having fun, and I'm the only one who still can't connect to mefi.

posted by interrobang 26 March | 17:38

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