Not sure what the specific problem was but apparently someone, somewhere, somehow, changed the DNS entry.
And, erm, well……..
” the DNS was changed overnight from numbers to
numbers”
Not sure what the specific problem was but apparently someone, somewhere, somehow, changed the DNS entry.
And, erm, well……..
” the DNS was changed overnight from numbers to
numbers”
I had to change the DNS on the charity where I volunteer’s website recently.
I warned them that the site might be down for a few hours, while the changes took effect. It was available again in a couple of minutes.
Impressed, not like ye oldene dayes when it really did take 24 hours.
Have you got David Lammy doing your web service?
@Ottokring
It depends what the time to live for the address records has been set to. If you know there’s going to be a change you reduce it over the day or two beforehand to something as low as 5 minutes, so the old records time out quickly and the new ones get picked up.
Did wonder!!
AtC
This is what surprised me. The TTL on the local server was set to 14400, which we weren’t allowed to alter.
I suspect it flushed everything when a change was made.
Still getting the “SORRY!” et cetera message (https://www.timworstall.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi) on my Mac. But it opens ok on my iPhone and – weirdly – in a private window on the Mac.
Still buggered for me. Using Firefox, Win 11 and VPN. I’m getting the Krystal ‘Sorry’ page. This comment sent from Edge browser (ugh).
I’m reading this on Opera (with Java disabled if that makes a difference) Over on the other display Firefox has the Krystal Hosting message.
A rather fraught day, yesterday. Couldn’t get either Tim or my domain webmail service to load. Since I presumed both had servers in the States (I know the domain does) tried routing via a VPN from DK & UK with no better result. And I couldn’t get a US VPN connection. Crossed my mind, WW3 had kicked off, the US was radioactive toast & they just weren’t telling us. But I sent a mate in the UK a link to Tim & it opened OK for him. I actually ran a boot scan on startup to check for virus.
Of course it’s compounded by, despite paying for high speed optical broadband, what I actually get is the sort of speeds one had with sound powered modem dialup. So one often has to reload pages several times & getting a timed out or unable to connect message is routine. Just Spain…
While the cat’s away….
So while the website was offline
– Apparently all ISAs need to be moved under Murphy’s control (Well him and Colin Hines) ‘We need a Carbon Army’
– The EU will continue to punish the UK for Brexit ‘Reeves in cloud cuckoo land’
– There’s an economic collapse on the horizon caused by things Murphy doesn’t understand ‘ How long before QE is required to save the wealthy from their greed’
– Labour isn’t minded to award him the recognition he deserves and he doesn’t like it ‘ When Labour is looking for an answer by next Friday it has really lost the plot’
– Murphy’s rented house is costing him too much and he needs to get it for free, not least to fund his son’s business ‘The next crash could be much bigger than the last two’
in fairness this is like something of a ‘Greatest Hits’ collection – not sure it needs fisking as it’s the equivalent of stale bread.
Ah! Clearing the cache on Firefox fixed it
He’s renting that shack V_P?!?! Oh I do pity his landlord. Can’t he get an eviction notice?
BiS
That may be a vicious rumour (although I don’t indulge in those as you know but I maintain both that his brother took his accountancy exams and he was barred from every pub in Downham Market) – I think as part of his separation agreement his wife remained in the family home and he moved out.
This is probably why the endless grift which continues ad nauseam even with the loss of his academic position. He’s doing something around ‘making accountancy relevant’ – what this does show me is this entire ‘third sector’ academia world is awash with cash and moolah. If Reeves want to make cuts she should really look at this but you don’t bite the hand that feeds you I suppose!
Vicious rumours are always the best ones. But a place like that, it really wouldn’t surprise me. More than a few are. I think my cousin’s renting something similar up near the Essex/Suffolk frontier. Been in it a couple of years.
Re my earlier comment. Took three attempts to post the above:
This site can’t be reached
https://www.timworstall.com took too long to respond.
Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
Check your internet connection.
Wonder how many will be needed to post this…
@BiS, yes, clearing the cache eventually occurred to me as well.
Judging by the light traffic today I suspect many are stuck looking at a cached error page.
Yeah. Thanks BiS.
Having a go at the cache worked for me too.
I think your DNS might have been fucked for a while. I’ve had a good fortnight of glacial performance, time outs, and 503 errors resulting from too many requests for unknown pages. The site seems to be back to normal again now.
Just now: “Web server is returning an unknown error”
Try a different browser Dearieme
Currently Firefox:
Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
We can’t connect to the server at http://www.amazon.es.
If you entered the right address, you can:
Try again later
Check your network connection
Check that Firefox has permission to access the web (you might be connected but behind a firewall)
Opera will load it, eventually.
Also using Firefox and getting the ‘not available’ page. But oddly if I go to Tim’s Wikipedia page and click the blog link there, it works.