Shaken & Stirred
DNS Snafu. Ouch, argh and @#%#@!
Rushed through the move to the new location, cut corners (real coders don't test?), managed to get the new hardware set up et al, but ...
Stale records on the Name server, self referential infinite loops, duplicate zones, stealth nameservers and more such stuff conspired to keep the site inaccessible. No one could get to www.skrbl.com though http://skrbl.com was accessible at times. And until today I didn't even know the 2 URLs resolve independently.
Guess this was a consequence of our rushed move, but I believe it could have been fixed much sooner, but the network guys automatically assumed the problem was 'standard DNS propagation delay', sigh!
Moral of the story - assume nothing.
And here's a great resource for anyone with DNS problems.
Rushed through the move to the new location, cut corners (real coders don't test?), managed to get the new hardware set up et al, but ...
Stale records on the Name server, self referential infinite loops, duplicate zones, stealth nameservers and more such stuff conspired to keep the site inaccessible. No one could get to www.skrbl.com though http://skrbl.com was accessible at times. And until today I didn't even know the 2 URLs resolve independently.
Guess this was a consequence of our rushed move, but I believe it could have been fixed much sooner, but the network guys automatically assumed the problem was 'standard DNS propagation delay', sigh!
Moral of the story - assume nothing.
And here's a great resource for anyone with DNS problems.
Labels: DNS, nameserver
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