FINALLY!.. Things seem to be normal again No more proxy-stuff

[SoCalDem]

Apparently DU has been healed:)

[steve2470]

1. information on why this is taking so long to heal (DNS propagation):

http://webhosting.devshed.com/c/a/Web-Hosting-Articles/What-is-DNS-propagation-and-why-does-it-take-so-long/

You’ve registered your domain name, and paid for hosting with a hosting provider, and uploaded your website to the web server. If this is all done, why can’t you see the results of your hard work right away? What is this DNS propagation people keep telling you about?

In order to understand DNS propagation, you must first understand a little about how DNS works. When you set up your website with your hosting provider, they create a Master DNS record in their Domain Name Servers. Your domain registrar (the company you paid for the honor of owning your domain name) points to your web host’s DNS server as being the master authority of your domain.

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The problem with this whole scheme is that in order to speed up the rate at which their customers can view the internet, each Internet Server Provider caches their DNS records. This means that they make their own copy of the master records, and read from them locally instead of looking them up on the Internet each time someone wants view a website. This actually speeds up web surfing quite a bit, by (1) speeding up the return time it takes for a web browser to request a domain lookup and get an answer, and (2) actually reducing the amount of traffic on the web therefore giving it the ability to work faster.

The downside to this caching scenario and what makes it take so long for your website to be visible to everyone, is that each company or ISP that caches DNS records only updates them every few days. This is not any kind of standard, and they can set this time anywhere from a few hours to several days. The slow updating of the servers cache is called propagation, since your websites DNS information is now being propagated across all DNS servers on the web. When this is finally complete, everyone can now visit your new website. Being that the cache time is different for all servers, as mentioned above, it can take anywhere from 36 to 72 hours for DNS changes to be totally in effect.

[SoCalDem]

20. The longest 72 hours ever:( .. n/t

[n2doc]

2. yea! n/t

[EC]

3. Yeah,

the proxy I was using had so many pop-up ads, it was maddening. The pop-up blocker beeping all the time.

[El Supremo]

4. Suddenly started working for me too!

After more than 48 hours of withdrawal symptoms.

:argh:

[Newest Reality]

5. I agree.

Good to be back here. Didn't find out about using a proxy to get in until early today.

I'm sure glad that's over. The DNS is resolving now, here.

[SoCalDem]

15. I was a bit afraid to try any of the special fixes being offered

but the proxy thing sort of worked

[Kali]

6. not for me

:-( still need the proxy

[SoCalDem]

7. maybe soon.. keep trying.. It didn't work for me and then all of a sudden it did

:hug:

[Kali]

18. I'm there!

thanks for the hug! just got on, had to do first post in the lounge:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

19. Feels like an Academy Award moment

[madfloridian]

8. Just came back for me also. About 5 minutes ago.

I went to my older computer, on the same router, typed in the link...and it was there. I had nothing bookmarked there, so don't know if had to do with anything or not. Probably not.

[SoCalDem]

9. It would be very interesting to see the numbers when this is all fixed

I'm sure DU can track things like that.. I bet the participation was WAAAY down for those 3 days we were off-line:)

[pinboy3niner]

10. Kick for visibility

[steve2470]

11. k&r nt

[babsbunny]

12. I missed you guys so much!

I need this place!

[liberal N proud]

13. Normal

This place has been anything but normal for years.

:hi: :rofl: couldn't resist

[SoCalDem]

14. well.. sort of normal

for some of us :evilgrin:

[laundry_queen]

16. It's finally

working for me at school, but we'll see if it works at home when I get there - it wasn't working there a couple of hours ago. God, I hope this doesn't happen again for a looong time, this sucked.

[SoCalDem]

17. I don't want it to EVER happen again

:)